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This stimulating and engaging event will help you look at new ways of growing your business and beating the recession. The workshop will help you generate ideas and think differently about the opportunities and benefits of innovation.
For many ‘innovation’ represents a daunting concept – it's something they should be doing but don’t know how.
Aimed at directors and employees of West Midlands SMEs in all sectors and industries, expert advisors from Oxford Innovation will introduce innovation in plain English.
Topics covered:
- What is innovation and why should your company innovate?
- How can you improve your innovation processes?
- Managing risk and fostering creativity across your organisation
- Case studies of how innovation has benefited businesse
Innovate & Grow is a workshop from the Innovation Advisory Service, which is designed to provide innovation support to eligible businesses within the West Midlands. There is also in depth consultancy assistance offered in the workplace to pinpoint key steps that can be implemented to facilitate the development and commercialization of new products. A match-funding grant of up to £7,500 is available to businesses to implement consultancy recommendations.
We expect places to go quickly for this event – so they will be allocated on a first come, first served basis. If you’d like to know more please call 0121 200 0910 or email innovation@bcguk.com.
Date - Thursday, 26th November 2009
Times - 09:00am - 1:00pm
Venue – National Metalforming Centre, West Bromwich
Cost – FREE (Typical value £295 per delegate)
When & Where
National Metalforming Centre
47 Birmingham Road
West Bromwich
B706PY West Midlands
United Kingdom
Thursday, November 26, 2009 from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM (GMT)
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Hosted By
Business Link & Oxford Innovation
Thanks to you for those who attended the Innovate & Grow Your
Business workshop on Thursday 26th November. The event was a great success and the first of many that will deliver some of innovations leading experts.
Please click on the links below to obtain the programme brochure and the
workshop slides:
Innovation Advisory Service Programme Brochure: IAS digital
brochure.pdf
Workshop slides: http://bit.ly/IAS_Sandwell_Event_Slides
If you would like to find out more information about the Innovation Advisory
Service, events in your area or the business support packages available please email info@bcguk.com or call 0121 200 0910.
Oxford
Innovation's Richard Hall has been confirmed as the speaker at the Innovate
& Grow Your Business Workshop
Richard Hall has a wealth
of experience in the high value electronic systems industry including defence,
aerospace and security technologies. From 1980 - 2004, he worked for a range of
blue-chip companies in the UK including: GEC-Marconi,
Siemens-Plessey, BAE Systems and General Dynamics in roles from engineer to
Business Director.
Richard joined Oxford
Innovation (OI) in 2006 to help deliver the Innovation Advisory Service for the
SEEDA Region. Providing innovation support to a variety of companies: large,
medium, small; and across a number of sectors with a focus on engineering and
manufacturing. Richard
is passionate about Open Innovation and has created and delivered a number of
well attended, high profile events to introduce SMEs to Blue Chip clients.
Oxford Innovation is the UK’s leading
operator of Innovation Centres and manages a network of centres across the country that provide flexible
office and lab space for over 400 high growth technology companies, a number of
whom have floated on AIM.
Their team has supported the “enthuse, action, deliver”
approach for over fifteen years working with several hundred clients. OI's
approach is a combination of structured methodology, specific areas of focus
such as route to market and funding for R&D combined with a high level of
technical insight.
