Author: Gordon Fong

General
06/05/2024

Bournemouth to Cheltenham and long (wrong) way home

I headed off from our office at the Dorset Innovation Park to the NCP Brewery Quarter, with a good amount of charge as it would have been 100% at home with the Guessometer reading of just under 300 miles. That section was 133 miles. If I did the same return path, through Salisbury, getting home would have been 96 miles. Even with the lights on […]

Gordon Fong and Cameron from Hub8
General
05/05/2024

CyNam – Cyber Security Cluster in Cheltenham

Whilst this might not have been my first trip as part of my Park Life on Tour series, as I only popped in for a couple of hours and didn’t record any interviews, it’s probably more like the Prologue stage of the Tour de France, as in the bit before the real start. I will be now know as the guy from X-Net that drove […]

Bristol journey
Road Trip
09/04/2024

EV – Bournemouth to Bristol North

My first blog entry about my electric car journey but I’ve cheated as I didn’t even visit an innovation park or did I need to charge. This is such a long way from using my 2012 Nissan Leaf. That car’s battery has degraded so much that I only get a realistic 40 miles max driving to work from Southbourne to the Dorset Innovation Park, which […]

Gordon and bunny
General
06/04/2024

Starting from Dorset Innovation Park

I should give you my starting point before I embark on this year long journey. I’m a director of X-Net, who have a presence on the Dorset Innovation Park, in terms of having an office and a data centre there, plus we are also working with the Defence BattleLab in supporting their outreach and building an ecosystem to attract all the key partners. It’s been […]

Gordon with Hyundai Ioniq 5 electric car
General
06/04/2024

Hitting the road

I will shortly be setting off on my first road trip to visit an innovation park, to interview the team on what they do and how, what makes them different, lessons learned and speak to some tenants so they can share their experience and work too. The word innovation is bandied around so much. There seems to be lots of funding for innovation as well, […]