Author: Gordon Fong

Road Trip
09/09/2024

Chargers galore at M11 Birchanger Services

My short innovation road trip this week would see me leave home from Bournemouth for a few days in London to attend the Systems Innovation Conference. From there I would set off to Cambridge for Cambridge Tech Week before returning home via Bletchley Park.  This is a 360 mile round trip. I left home with 100% charge but didn’t take a note of the mileage […]

Systems Innovation Conference room
General
08/09/2024

Systems Innovation Conference, London 2024.

The Systems Innovation Conference 2024 was held over September 6 and 7 at The Foundry co-working space near the Oval cricket ground. It is run by Joss Colchester. Not used to conferences starting dead on 9am, on a Friday and Saturday too, and not being an early bird either I thought it would take me a bit of time to get going. I can honestly […]

Matt Freeman sat at a desk
Innovation Parks
19/08/2024

Matt Freeman from the Future Space innovation centre in Bristol

Professor Matt Freeman is the Centre Director for Future Space, an innovation centre on the Frenchay campus of the University of West England, north of Bristol. Future Space is made up of offices and labs around the themes of advanced engineering, health & life sciences, digital, green and creative technology. Located in the University Enterprise Zone means it is ideally placed to bring academia, researchers, […]

Pau Watson
Innovation Parks
02/08/2024

Paul Watson from National Innovation Centre for Data

I have been to Innovation Centres where it’s a bunch of units for rent and you are left to your own devices. I have also been to Innovation Centres where there is support for small businesses and proactive community building.  Today, I went to an Innovation Centre that actively uses their expertise and resources, working directly with businesses to deliver results, innovation and upskilling as […]

AI generated view of an innovation district
General
23/07/2024

What makes an innovation district work?

This is a LinkedIn post that I wanted to share. Shame I can’t embed. The reason for sharing is that it asks the question of does the strategy of building innovation districts work and what does it rely on for a successful outcome? https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jeremybamberg_defencetech-cyber-innovationdistricts-activity-7218577700167315457-aOrA Hopefully I might get out to Berlin and interview Jeremy Bamberg as well.

Charlotte Smith
General
23/07/2024

Charlotte Smith from CyNam explains CyberFirst

We speak to Charlotte Smith, who is the Skills Growth Lead for CyNam, who are also part of the consortium to deliver CyberFirst for the South West. They are located in the Hub 8 MX building. Charlotte explains in more details the CyberFirst Schools initiative from the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)  – a part of GCHQ. This is to encourage girls into the technical […]