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Creating Innovative Businesses

Wednesday, April 28, 2010 at 12:30 PM (GMT)

Ipswich, United Kingdom

Creating Innovative Businesses

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Creating Innovative Businesses

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Wednesday April 28th 2010>12:30pm - 5:30pm >Adastral Park, Ipswich

 

Following Essex R&D Network's successful 'Grow Your Business in Challenging Times' workshop from February 2009...

An opportunity to hear new ideas and potential approaches for post recession business growth. For entrepreneurs, innovative businesses, designers and established businesses … looking to grow.

 

What’s included?

 

  • An afternoon of networking, help and advice from local experts and internationally renowned key speaker Giovanni Benedetti
  • Lunch and refreshments
  • Membership of VentureNavigator, the free online business community and advice service from the University of Essex
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    Key speakers include:

    • Giovanni Benedetti CBE serial entrepreneur and innovator, Chair of Benedetti International, incorporating first aid kit producer Wallace Cameron.  Gio will look at how design knowledge can transform the performance of businesses, and create innovate products.
    • Charles Joynson - founded his first company supplying data to pharmaceutical companies in 2000. The lessons he learnt and the problems he encountered running that company were put to good use in Charle's knowledge trading website gibli.com, launched at the start of 2010.
    • Two other Suffolk based businesses
    Free to Suffolk and Essex businesses; there will be opportunities to network, access help and advice from the experts, especially designers, view exhibitions, and case study presentations and work from members of Design for Business East
     

     

    If you require further information please contact Simon Maidment, Essex County Council Innovation & Sector Development Coordinator on 01245 430350, email simon.maidment@essex.gov.uk

     

     

     

     

              

     

    When & Where



    Adastral Park
    Martlesham Heath
    IP5 3RE Ipswich
    United Kingdom

    Wednesday, April 28, 2010 at 12:30 PM (GMT)


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    Hosted By

    Economic Challenge Investment Fund, University of Essex



    This event has been sponsored by funding from the Economic Challenge Investment Fund (ECIF).  The University of Essex ECIF programme, http://www.essex.ac.uk/reo/ecif/, is giving entrepreneurial skills training to individuals and businesses across Essex and Suffolk. This includes free startups workshops, innovation workshops, a transferable skills assessment, and student/graduate work placements.