My Journey with the Ingenuity Lab: From Uncertainty to Entrepreneurship
October 29, 2024
By Dr Inchirah Adala, Founder of PLURABIO A year and a half ago, I had my first exposure to the Ingenuity Lab through the Link Programme. At that time, I was working full-time at a large company, but I often felt out of place and uncertain about my career. Although I had briefly encountered the …
Empowering Enterprising Technicians – Your Entrepreneurs Scheme
May 7, 2024
By Dr Hannah Noke, Associate Professor in Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Haydn Green Institute, Nottingham University Business School As a technician: Do you develop business cases? Do you transfer your skills and knowledge to others? Do you use any systems or kit that could be adapted to improve your work, a process or the way you …
Adventures: Exploring Ingenuity Lab at the University of Nottingham
April 5, 2024
By Serena Liu, Ingenuity Lab Manager, University of Nottingham Ningbo China During my visit to the Ingenuity Lab at the University of Nottingham Business School in autumn 2023, I had the privilege of visiting The Ingenuity Lab led by Dr Terri Holloway and got to meet in person my esteemed colleagues Rachel Bedrock and Dr …
Stepping out of your comfort zone with YES
June 1, 2021
For 24 years, science and engineering researchers, from UK universities, have been stepping out of their comfort zones to take part in the Young Entrepreneurs Scheme (YES) – a competition developed to raise awareness of how ideas can be commercialised. Over this time, around 6,000 researchers have invested hours of preparation to deploy novel ideas …
Pathway for poverty alleviation via potato industrialisation in China?
October 26, 2020
In this blog, Dr Bin Wu, Xiyao Wang and Chi Xu investigate how industrialisation of potato production in the Yi minority region of Sichuan, China can lead to a pathway for poverty alleviation. Regarding the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), it is a big challenge to help smallholder farmers – who feed two-thirds of the …
Ethical technology: in the (A)I of the storm? Say hello to the Ethical Technology Index (ETI)
January 11, 2019
How does technology enable interaction? How do we prepare for the emerging role of artificial intelligence, machine learning and the Internet of Things? And how will future societies function with these technologies? In our Future Technology Summit, we’ll look at all of this and more, while helping participants to create scalable, global solutions to make …
Growing your Business Idea: The Ingenuity Competition
December 26, 2018
Ingenuity19 is looking for the next generation of entrepreneurs and innovators to create scalable social and commercial enterprises that can transform Nottingham, the UK and beyond. For the first time, we are open to the public and looking for future leaders from across the city. This includes everyone from the student community, to Nottingham’s biggest …
An Entrepreneurial Extravaganza at #YES18
December 20, 2018
YES welcomed eight finalists to the Royal Society on Tuesday 11 December to present their business ideas to #ProtectOurPlanet in a bid to compete for the £16.5k prize fund. All three competitions, Biotechnology YES, Engineering YES and Environment YES, are specifically designed to allow ECRs to develop commercialisation skills, raise career awareness and appreciate how …
Lessons to Learn for Entrepreneurs
December 14, 2018
Ingenuity19 is looking for the next generation of entrepreneurs and innovators to create scalable social and commercial enterprises that can transform Nottingham, the UK and beyond. For the first time, we are open to the public and looking for future leaders from across the city. This includes everyone from the student community, to Nottingham’s biggest …
Building work-ready skills whilst studying
August 7, 2018
“Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment.” (unattributed) It is widely recognised that whatever the level of educational qualification achieved, studying alone does not equip students to have ‘work- ready skills’. There are many practical, less tangible accomplishments which are just as important in preparing for employment, whether that’s working for …
