Business

Best of inventions and innovations sought

* AWARDS: Steve Orr, director of the Northern Ireland Science Park's NISP Connect, launches the Invent2014 Awards in Belfast's historic Titanic Drawing Rooms with award sponsor Ian Sheppard, head of business and corporate banking at Bank of Ireland UK. The awards, formerly the £25k Awards, are looking for Northern Ireland's next big invention or innovation which will be remembered 100 years from now. Invent2014 has a prize fund of £33,000, a six month programme of mentoring and new categories open for agri-food and enterprise software innovators in the private and public sector. Visit www.invent2014co for entry information