The Ingenuity Lab is open for business!
October 29, 2021
After 19 months, two lockdowns and an ever-growing schedule of online events, the Ingenuity Lab reopened its doors to its members this week. Over the past year and a half, we’ve successfully run the Lab virtually, with monthly surgeries and online business events generously run by our amazing team of Entrepreneurs in Residence and experienced …
Entrepreneurship education: where will we be in 10 years’ time? – Professor Simon Mosey
September 28, 2021
After a year of uncertainty and upheaval, this week we return to campus for the new academic year. Never one to dwell on the past, HGI Director, Professor Simon Mosey looks ahead to the future as we start a new semester of entrepreneurship education. The Danish physicist Neils Bohr said that ‘prediction is very difficult, …
Scale 2021 – Izzie and Sam’s story
September 14, 2021
This summer, Ingenuity Lab members took part in the second cohort of our annual accelerator programme, Scale. The programme is designed for members who are eager to take their business to the next level. Scale helps to ensure Lab members’ businesses are viable, innovative and scalable, with online seminars running throughout the summer and expert advice on hand from business mentors. Sisters Izzie and Sam Hurst, who run …
This time I mean it – Paul Kirkham
June 28, 2021
This week, Paul Kirkham retires after over a decade of supporting ingenuity and innovation at the Haydn Green Institute. “HGI will not be the same without Paul’s creativity, generosity and well honed ability to debunk whatever intellectual fashions are being sold as the answer to all our problems”, said HGI Director Professor Simon Mosey. “He …
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 …
Dr Chris Carter wins Dearing Award for Innovative Teaching
May 10, 2021
Dr Chris Carter, Assistant Professor in Entrepreneurship and Innovation, has been recognised for his Innovative Teaching at the Annual Lord Dearing Awards this month. The Lord Dearing Award Scheme has, since 1999, recognised the outstanding achievements of University of Nottingham staff in enhancing the student learning experience. Recipients of the Dearing Awards are nominated by …
Entrepreneurial Creativity: MSc Student Blogs
March 23, 2021
One of the most popular modules on the MSc Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Management at HGI is Entrepreneurial Creativity, run by Dr Chris Carter. The module is designed for budding entrepreneurs to understand, experience and explore the business planning process while learning how to use different theories and creative techniques to solve problems and generate new …
Ingenuity Lab Announces Spring Events Programme – Get Involved!
March 10, 2021
It’s now been a whole year since the pandemic changed the way we live: last March, we closed the doors of the Ingenuity Lab, not knowing when we would return. Like everyone, we’ve had to adapt how we operate, and since then we have strived to maintain our usual level of support for our budding …
International Women’s Day – Dr Lorna Treanor
March 8, 2021
International Women’s Day is a time to celebrate women’s achievements and to highlight the progress yet to be made in terms of equality, diversity and inclusion. At the Haydn Green Institute, our research considers these issues in relation to both entrepreneurship and innovation. Dr Lorna Treanor’s work with the Women’s Enterprise Policy Group has previously …
Building-up an ecosystem for organic agriculture in China
February 4, 2021
In the latest of his GCRF Research blogs, Dr Bin Wu writes about his recent project with Yibing Wang, Research Director at the YouChange Foundation, about the GF Tea Company in China. Responding to the increasing need for healthy food, in recent years there is a new trend of reverse capital flow from the urban to rural areas of China to develop organic agriculture. A challenge facing urban investors is in mobilising small farmers’ participation and changing the latter’s attitudes and production styles to meet new standards. It is largely dependent upon whether mutual trust and collaborative …
