Lord Stafford Awards winners announced
A company which has developed a line of trousers for injured soldiers, a firm which is using forensic science kits to boost interest in chemistry and a groundbreaking innovation centre all triumphed at the Lord Stafford Awards last night.
The awards seek to showcase and celebrate the best of collaboration between businesses and universities. The winners were announced last night at a gala dinner at Stoneleigh Park.
Leek-based Rackety’s and Coventry University won the innovation in development award. This project has seen the manufacturer of clothing for disabled people develop a new range of trousers designed for soldiers who have suffered leg injuries which require them to wear fixator devices.
Bilston-based SciChem Forensic Investigation and Staffordshire University won the achievement in innovation award for a project developing specialist forensic science kits which are being sold to schools and colleges nationally.
And Caparo Innovation Centre and the University of Wolverhampton won the open collaboration award for the establishment of a centre which supports inventors.
Lord Stafford, patron of the awards, said: “In the current economic climate it is more important than ever that universities play their part in helping to unlock the ideas that businesses have.”
