Visits to Innovation Parks and Centres
Held at the Firepool Centre for Digital Innovation, the Invest Somerset Digital Showcase event was to share Somerset Council’s Economic Prosperity Strategy 2025-2045, and to have various local organisations and businesses take part in panel discussions and present workshops. The video includes a short interview with Councillor David Woan, Somerset Council Associate Lead Member for […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]