A research institute with ambitious plans to cultivate groundbreaking industry-shaping ideas opened in Durham this week.
The Durham Institute of Research, Development and Invention (DIRDI) has been set up by advanced manufacturer Coltraco Ultrasonics and Durham University at NETPark's Orbit building and is co-located with the Centre for Underwater Acoustic Analysis.
Industry and academic masterminds behind the project have set ambitions high saying they want to foster mathematical and physical science discoveries in the spirit of revolutionary thinkers such as Sir Isaac Newton and the research and development (R&D) of greats such as Thomas Edison.
