Research and Development (R&D) stories

Motorola opens a Cork R&D hub to develop mission-critical radio software, hiring nearly 200 staff to bolster global public safety systems.

IMP Software has been named The Assignment Report’s UK education company of 2025 after rapid growth supplying finance tools to MATs.

Quantum Machines will open a flagship quantum hub in Chicago’s Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park to expand US research operations.

Canada distils record public input into priorities for a 2026 AI strategy, balancing innovation, security, sovereignty and public trust.

Manchester’s Turing Innovation Catalyst has picked seven early-stage AI startups for its first TIC Startup Lab incubator cohort.

Liquium secures over NZD$2m to scale green ammonia catalysts, promising major efficiency gains for fertiliser and clean fuel producers.

QuikBot and Illumia have agreed a partnership to roll out governed Physical AI robots across airport retail, airside logistics and MRO.

NeuBird AI appoints Venkat Ramakrishnan president and COO to scale its agentic AI SRE platform and expand global commercial operations.

WARE UK adopts Mecalux Easy WMS at its new Knowsley hub to boost stock visibility, speed dispatch and support northern England growth.

Enatel opens an 8000sqm high-tech plant in Christchurch, uniting staff and boosting export capacity for its specialised battery chargers.

OpenAI unveils an Australia-wide AI push, pairing a Sydney supercomputer campus with skills training and new startup support schemes.

Toast has opened a 64,000-square-foot Bengaluru tech hub at RMZ Ecoworld to scale product development, hiring and global innovation.

A Copenhagen startup says its Argus software can generate full eye prescriptions from a single smartphone photo in under a minute.

UK firms told to embed in China as co-creators, not just exporters, with visa-free travel urged to unlock high-tech industrial ties.

Snap forms Specs unit to spearhead next-gen smart glasses, promising AI-driven, low-friction eyewear that blends digital and real worlds.

KnowBe4 marks a decade of its AIDA security AI, now running seven agents for 70,000 clients, and appoints Harlan Parrott VP of AI Innovation.

xReality receipts jump 85% as US defence and police contracts swell pipeline to AUD $63 million and support a larger Sydney base.

OVHcloud partners with OpenNebula to launch certified sovereign cloud instances across EU data centres under the IPCEI-CIS framework.

Crompton named world’s top ceiling fan brand for 2024 by Euromonitor, selling over two crore units a year and one fan every two seconds.

Gartner identifies four finance tactics it says helped 105 US-listed firms beat peers with a 51% total shareholder return premium.