Category: General

Mike Sewart
General
24/06/2024

Interview with Mike Sewart, CTO of QinetiQ.

14 June 2024, in Portsmouth. I saw Mike Sewart, the CTO of QinetiQ, present at a South West Regional Defence and Security Cluster (SWRDSC) event at Porton Science Park. What he said about innovation and the way he said it really resonated with me so, at the coffee break I grabbed a few minutes to tell him about my Park Life on Tour project. He […]

General
28/05/2024

UK Gov Innovation Clusters Map

Statement from the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation, and Technology, Michelle Donelan, on the Innovation Clusters Map. https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/introducing-the-innovation-clusters-map This is the interactive map https://www.innovationclusters.dsit.gov.uk

General
28/05/2024

Difference between innovation in Defence and private sector

Saw this interesting post on LinkedIn about the tensions between Defence (albeit he is talking from a US perspective and Silicon Valley) and the private sector when it comes to innovation culture, and trying to bring it from the hipster startup businesses to the more formal structured organisations within Defence.

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 […]

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 […]