Visits to Innovation Parks
Have now seen this website dedicated to UK’s innovation districts, which gives me more places to visit and understand their approach, lessons to learn, and their impact. https://www.ukinnovationdistricts.co.uk
For this post we are closer to home on my tour, as in I visit a fellow business on the Dorset Innovation Park. The full video of my visit to the offices and labs of Latent Drive will be posted soon but here are two videos that cover an introduction to the green hydrogen technologies that they are developing. It’s great to know that they […]
Sharon Jones, from Navy Engagement, asked me to present my findings to date from this ParkLife blog to the Defence Innovation Champions Network. This web site wasn’t meant to be an academic study so I was a bit shy about saying yes. I had set out to learn about innovation spaces and processes, in a bid to provide input back into the Dorset Innovation Park […]
This was just a quick visit to the Future Towns Innovation Hub (on LinkedIn) as they were hosting an event. I will be going back another day to understand what they do and what they cover in terms of what the future town can look like through innovation. They are based in the Engineering Centre on the Southampton Science Park and what impresses me every […]
This was a slightly different interview in that I wasn’t interviewing one innovation centre, one manager of that place, I was speaking to Andrew Roughan, the CEO of Plexal. Plexal is a company that manages many innovation centres and co-working spaces around the UK, such as in London, Manchester and Cheltenham. In rewatching the video to summarise, I know he gave so much information and […]
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, […]