ATTRACT Project

ATTRACT celebrates successes at Final Conference (video)

attract — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 10:39:08 +0000

ATTRACT, a pilot designed to improve Europe’s generation of commercial innovation from its world-class scientific excellence, held its Final Conference on 2 and 3 July, attended by numerous European leaders.

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Quinas’s quantum‑powered memory ULTRARAM™ secures UK’s first WIPO Global Award

attract — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 08:52:24 +0000

The ULTRARAM™ memory technology, developed at Lancaster University and commercialised through spin-out Quinas Technology, has been named a winner of the 2025 WIPO Global Awards in the ICT Start-Up category. The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) selected Quinas as the UK’s first recipient of this international award, highlighting the global significance of the breakthrough. Selected […]

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UK memory start-up Quinas wins WIPO award

attract — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 09:45:55 +0000

Lancaster University memory spinout company Quinas Technology has won a 2025 World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) Global Award. Selected from a pool of more than 780 applicants across 95 countries, Quinas was recognised for its patented ULTRARAM technology, which uses compound semiconductors (GaSb, InAs and AlSb) to combine the speed of DRAM and the non-volatility […]

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Rethinking the role of research infrastructures

attract — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 08:00:00 +0000

Can Europe’s leading research infrastructures become a commercial springboard for deep tech startups? At ATTRACT’s Final Conference in early July, Doris Schröcker, head of unit for Industrial Research, Innovation and Investment Agendas at the European Commission’s DG RTD, hinted at a bigger future role for Europe’s research infrastructures in EU funding policies. So-called deep tech […]

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ATTRACT lights the way to commercialising R&D

attract — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 08:00:00 +0000

Europe has struggled to leverage its spending on research and development to create commercially attractive products. The ATTRACT project, which held its final conference in early July, offers some evidence of what works and what doesn’t as food for thought for policymakers charting the future of EU research funding. The project is “a source of […]

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Puff, the magic jacket: In this EU project, students design some surprising tech prototypes

attract — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 09:44:34 +0000

When Anna Cain, a master’s student in Barcelona, was looking for inspiration for a school project, she was thinking about climate change and how technology might help. There was a severe drought underway that “was really bad where we were living in Barcelona,” she recalls; “so I think it was just at the top of […]

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CASEIA project: evaluating innovation at the Science/Technology interface

attract — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 07:00:00 +0000

The impact of large-scale basic science facilities is a key question in science policy. This issue is particularly relevant for institutions such as CERN and other major research infrastructures, where understanding how investments in fundamental science translate into socioeconomic outcomes remains a central concern. A recent study published in the CERN IdeaSquare Journal of Experimental […]

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How a swim helped launch one of Europe’s fast-moving quantum start-ups

attract — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 10:10:52 +0000

It was in a swimming pool that Massimo Caccia, an Italian physicist, first got the idea that would lead to what is now one of Europe’s promising new quantum electronics start-ups. At the time, he was struggling with some pesky quantum “noise” that kept disrupting the output of photon detectors he had been working with […]

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CSEM develops a 3D printed thermal control system for satellites

attract — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 12:17:48 +0000

CSEM, in collaboration with Thales Alenia Space and Lisi Aerospace Additive Manufacturing, has created an innovative 3D printed pipe segment for advanced thermal management systems in satellites. The part was displayed at the LISI Aerospace booth during the Paris Air Show.

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