Category: Innovation Parks

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, […]

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 […]

Our university placement student, Nathan Fowler, spoke to Alice Violet who shares what she is looking for when hiring a new employee. Alice also has a podcast call Cyber Made Human that you can find further details at the follow link, https://alicevioletcreative.com/cyber-made-human-podcast/

Tom Broadway is the Hub8 Lead for the Minster Exchange innovation space in Cheltenham. This is an £8.4m investment into regeneration scheme to rejuvenate the heart of Cheltenham, between Cheltenham Borough Council and Hub8, so the centre is managed by Plexal. Executive Summary What does innovation mean to you? Continued success, continued growth and having a platform to support that. Why the move to a […]

15 July 2024, I took our university placement student, Nathan Fowler (LinkedIn), with me to Cheltenham to visit the Hub8 MX Innovation Centre and to interview some key people. We ended up with four pieces of content, which was a fantastic return. Got there and back without needing to charge my car this time, but day time driving and not having the two horrendous detours […]