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Coping with global challenges by enhancing UK-China cooperation in agricultural research and innovation – Dr Bin Wu
December 6, 2022
In the context of global challenges in climate change, food security and zero carbon campaign, UK-China research and innovation cooperation in agricultural transitions and sustainability becomes increasingly important. With funding support from the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), a workshop was held online on 28 November 2022 with the theme: UK-China cooperation in agricultural …
Holding the FIFA World Cup in Qatar is not an innovation – and here’s why
November 18, 2022
This blog is written by Professor Simon Mosey, Director of the Haydn Green Institute Many thousands of words have been written explaining why hosting the upcoming football world cup in Qatar is a bad idea. We would add the fundamental point that hosting the tournament in winter in one of the smallest, hottest, and most …
Social Enterprise Day: the Ingenuity Programme
November 17, 2022
Today is Social Enterprise Day! Here at the Ingenuity Programme, we’re all about social impact and enabling our participants to create change in their communities through enterprise. Run by Nottingham University Business School, the Ingenuity Programme brings together students, graduates and members of the local community to develop exciting new start-ups and grassroots initiatives that …
YES: Demystifying knowledge exchange, innovation and enterprise
November 16, 2022
For today’s Global Entrepreneurship Week post, Tracey Hassall-Jones, Manager of YES, writes about the new collaboration with TALENT and welcoming more technicians onto the programme. During Global Entrepreneurship Week, I want to give a huge shout out to all technicians! Technicians who love their craft and are constantly sharing and disseminating knowledge to promote innovative thinking …
Global Entrepreneurship Week: University of Nottingham students at the Enactus World Cup
November 15, 2022
From the 30 October to 2 November 2022, 1,500 students from across the world gathered in Puerto Rico for the 2022 Enactus World Cup. A team from Enactus Nottingham represented the United Kingdom – and made it into the top four. My name is Gabby Donno and I am a third year Natural Sciences student. …
The Ingenuity Lab celebrates Global Entrepreneurship Week
November 14, 2022
As Global Entrepreneurship Week kicks off, Dr Terri Holloway, Head of The Ingenuity Lab writes about the international community of entrepreneurs at the Lab. Global Entrepreneurship Week was developed in 2008 by the Global Entrepreneurship Network to encourage future founders to start businesses that aim to improve economic equality, social justice, and sustainability. Here at …
Building a global-local knowledge community for development practices in the global south
November 2, 2022
Launch of International Forum of Future Rural Studies (IFFRS) Report by Bin Wu and Xiuli Xu The interlinked global crises and conflicts have changed the landscape of rural development in the global south. Three billion people live in rural areas in the global south, and in recent years there has been an increase of people …
Witty Scholar Ben makes it to the final of the Engineers in Business Innovation competition
October 28, 2022
Twenty-two-year-old Ben Keeble, an Engineering graduate, Ingenuity Lab member and Witty Entrepreneurial Scholar, has secured a place in the final of the Engineers in Business Champion of Champions innovation competition. Ben, who invented Mobiliaid, a portable, battery-powered seat raiser for the elderly and people with disabilities, will be pitching his innovation against nine other teams …
Meet the Ingenuity Lab member empowering African artisans
October 24, 2022
Peter Paul Akanko is a young creative entrepreneur from Ghana, who studied MSc Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Management at HGI in 2021. With experience of running his own social enterprise back home, Peter came to the university on the Chevening Scholarship programme, looking to expand his knowledge in the field of entrepreneurship. “The EIM programme was …
From diversity comes innovation: Opportunities for knowledge sharing and outreach activities in Malaysia
July 22, 2022
For over two decades, the Haydn Green Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (HGI) has been at the forefront of creating a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship at the University of Nottingham. HGI aims to make entrepreneurial skills accessible to the wider society by promoting responsible entrepreneurship through different initiatives such as the Young Entrepreneurs Scheme …
