The Ingenuity Business Network – what’s in it for the University?

The Ingenuity breakfast events have been running for some years now, originally established as part of the funded Ingenuity Programme. When the funding for that programme came to an end, the University decided to continue to support the network which might make you wonder why – just what is in it for the University? Naturally, …

Seven Ways to Fix the World

Speaker: Chris Barnatt, Futurologist and Associate Professor of Computing and Future Studies, Nottingham University Business School  “Some scientist, somewhere, will solve the problem.” That’s the message that Chris Barnatt was most definitely not giving at this presentation for the Ingenuity Business Network. Instead he focused on seven ways that individuals, businesses large and small, and …

It’s good to talk… even to academics

I spend a lot of my time visiting businesses from all sectors, everything from commercial archaeologists through to manufacturers of major household brands and taking in some big industrial players along the way.   As a result, I see a lot of different businesses that each has its own issues. Of late I’ve seen a common …

Building an Innovative Organisation

Ingenuity Knowledge Exchange event – 11 July 2012 Speakers: Dr Mat Hughes, Nottingham University Business School and Stuart Ross“You can’t sack yourself so what are you going to do?” As a business owner, says Mat Hughes, you might well have fallen into a couple of natural traps that have killed off your once-entrepreneurial spirit. Whilst …