What we do

The NORTHERN INNOVATION FOUNDATION is a not for profit collaboration focussed on innovation in technology - our aims include:

- Raising funds to carry out RESEARCH into new and emerging technologies.

- Working in PARTNERSHIP with Academic and commercial organisations to develop solutions with a global appeal.

- INVESTMENT in people and projects for the public benefit.

Research

Our research has a strong focus on Sensors and the Big Data knowledge that can be achieved. Sensors fill our everyday lives, we find them in our smartphones, our cars, in pretty much every area of our homes. They are at the heart of Smart Cities and their importance will only increase. The Northern Innovation Foundation believes that developments in Sensor technology are central to everything we look to achieve and our Research focus reflects the importance.

Partnership

Establishing a clear vision from the outset is the bedrock of a prosperous Partnership. The Northern Innovation Foundation believes it is vital to be realistic when scoping a project so all parties have the opportunity to succeed. There is no point in promising the world only to deliver disappointment. Establishing timelines and delivering a well planned project on time strengthens trust and leads to further collaborations with academic and commercial organisations.

Investment

In order to attract Investment the Northern Innovation Foundation focusses on technology with a global appeal. By staying true to this approach investors can see there is a focus and a desire to produce solutions for a worldwide marketplace. Our team has delivered a wide portfolio of projects over three decades and hold Patents in a wide variety of fields.

Our Team

Professor Joe Spencer CEng FIET

Prof. Joe Spencer gained his B.Eng(Hons) and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Liverpool and spent a number of years working in the industrial sector focussing on high voltage and high current engineering.

He became an academic staff member of the University of Liverpool in 1989 and is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and a Director for the Centre of Intelligent Monitoring Systems.

A Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of the Institution for Engineering and Technology, his research in electrical power equipment and intelligent monitoring systems is extensively published. He is also a member of an international study group on arc discharges, and on the national leadership committee in the UK for Sensors and Instrumentation.

Gary Disley

Gary is a Company Director with some thirty years business experience working for some of the largest media companies in the world including the BBC, SKY, CNN, and ESPN.

His career has taken him to more than fifty countries around the world. Highlights include bidding for and winning the English Premier League football rights for the Showtime Network in the Middle East and North Africa. Creating an image recognition business and securing sole UK right to cutting edge medical scanners. He also spent a decade building FibreWiFi - an Internet Service Provider - into the most widespread radio Broadband network in the East of England.

He bring a hands on approach to projects whilst understanding the importance of allowing others to express themselves in order to achieve exceptional results.

Steve Curd

Steve is a Company Director at Tritec Developments - a product design company based in St. Helens, Merseyside - which specialises in compliance testing, board level embedded systems, fibre optics, industrial controls, automation and sensor systems.

During the past three decades his work has involved designing radiation detection equipment for use at the Sellafield nuclear site and improving automation for Airbus UK. Overseas projects include board level Cathodic protection systems for the Port of Tangiers in Morocco.

Steve is an Honorary Research Associate in the Electrical Engineering & Electronics Department at the University of Liverpool.

Dr. Ali Al-Temeemy Ph.D.

Dr. Ali Al-Temeemy is Assistant Professor and Researcher at Al-Nahrain University, Baghdad, Iraq, in the Department of Laser and Optoelectronics Engineering.

He received his Ph.D. in ultra-high-speed laser detection and ranging from the University of Liverpool in 2011.

His current research includes LADAR, Laser Multi-Dimentional Imaging, Laser Speckles Imaging, Computer Vision, along with Optoelectronic and Multispectral Healthcare Monitoring Systems.

I've not failed ....

I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

THOMAS EDISON

How We Do It

The Northern Innovation Foundation attracts funding from a wide range of local and national sources. Interested parties looking to become involved with our work or who wish to donate can contact us through the, “Get In Touch,” form below. Any surplus generated from fundraising is reinvested into our three main goals -

- RESEARCH into new and emerging technologies.