Ingenuity Fishbowl – the Experts tell us why they’re involved
29 November, 2012
This week saw the launch of the Ingenuity Fishbowl, an online initiative that follows three young businesses and the challenges they face, and offers them support from a panel experts from within the University and from the local business community. I caught up with five of them to find out why they got involved and …
High Performance Computing capacity available for local businesses
22 November, 2012
Local businesses in engineering, pharmaceutical development, the creative and digital industries, aerospace and automotive, as well as other sectors, are now able to take advantage of facilities in high performance computing (HPC) that have been developed thanks to £3.5 million of EPSRC funding in a project known as Midplus. These businesses are invited to work …
Corporate Social Responsibility and the Smaller Business
15 November, 2012
Speakers: Dale Buckland of Progression Enrichment and Francine Pickering from Clarity Marketing “Guilt by big business” was one definition of CSR offered by an audience member at this presentation and with recent tax avoidance from some very large businesses very much in the news, it’s not surprising that some might hold this view.But, having established …
Celebration!
8 November, 2012
This week at the end of the Jubilee year we celebrated our own 60th; the 60th Knowledge Transfer Partnership the University has been awarded. The Knowledge Transfer Partnership programme (KTP) is a government funded initiative that aims to transfer knowledge from the UK’s Universities and embed that knowledge in businesses of all sizes to help …
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