Business & Economy News

Reid Jacoby stands next to Trib Gosain as they pitch their high performance umbrellas to the investor dragons on the BBC series Dragons' Den.

Bright sparks enter the Dragons' Den

Published
14 February 2025
Categories
Business & Economy

Spark scholar and award-winning University of Leeds graduate Trib Gosain caught the eye of super investor Peter Jones on Dragons’ Den last night with his high-performance umbrella.

Professor Alan Taylor delivers his speech in an Esther Simpson Lecture Theatre.

Bank policymaker delivers first speech in Leeds

Published
16 January 2025
Categories
Working with business
Business & Economy

A leading economist delivered the first speech in his new role for the Bank of England at the University of Leeds.

Tom Milner is sat at a desk in Helix on the University of Leeds campus making one of his bracketless plant pot holders.

Sparking life into seedling ideas

Published
13 January 2025
Categories
Business & Economy

A young entrepreneur who pioneered bracketless plant pot holders for tenants has urged students to pursue their business dream.

An office table where several people's hands can be seen. A laptop on the table shows an AI graphic.

How are digital technologies restructuring work?

Published
5 November 2024
Categories
Technology
Business & Economy
Research

The ways in which new workplace technologies like artificial intelligence are affecting work and employment will be investigated by collaborative research centre, Digit.

A plate containing balls of cheese. The cheese was created using MicroLub protein technology

Investment boost for food spinout

Published
21 October 2024
Categories
Business & Economy

A pioneering company that creates healthy, sustainable food has received a £3.5 million investment to scale up its ingredients technology.

A group of students with a panel of experts from the DWP stood infront of a presentation on a board smiling at the camera.

Student insight influences recruitment decisions

Published
11 October 2024
Categories
Business & Economy
Working with business

Insight from business students at Leeds is influencing government recruitment policy for neurodivergent applicants.

A child using a smartphone late at night lying in bed.

Summer riots 'show consequences of dangerous fake news'

Published
4 September 2024
Categories
Business & Economy
Society & Politics

Children need to be ‘vaccinated’ against fake news and dangerous disinformation, academics have warned, and digital education must improve to ensure they don't fall prey to 'nefarious actors' online.

Lyndon Timings-Thompson and James McBride are pictured outside Nexus on the University of Leeds campus

Alum makes Forbes entrepreneur list

Published
1 May 2024
Categories
Business & Economy

The founder of a social enterprise that helps disadvantaged people back into work has been recognised in a list of Europe’s top young entrepreneurs.

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Boosting UK economy by £38 billion

Published
28 February 2024
Categories
Business & Economy

Leading research-intensive universities, including Leeds, contribute almost £38 billion to the UK economy, analysis has revealed.

A graphic showing three humans, each with a virtual pair of organs in front of their chest.

Investment to improve health outcomes

Published
26 February 2024
Categories
Business & Economy

University of Leeds spinout adsilico has received an investment boost to scale up its ground-breaking work and accelerate life-saving benefits for patients.