Category: Innovation Parks and Centres

Visits to Innovation Parks and Centres

General Innovation Parks and Centres
27/09/2025

Invest Somerset Digital Showcase event

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 Business Partnerships. He summarises the strategy and goals. He also […]

Frazer Ely
Innovation Parks and Centres
19/02/2025

Snippets from Frazer Ely, CEO of Latent Drive

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 […]

Gordon Fong speaking at Dorset Stride event.
General Innovation Parks and Centres
18/02/2025

Defence innovation champions network talk

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 […]

meeting agenda
Innovation Parks and Centres
03/02/2025

Future Towns Innovation Hub quick visit

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 […]

Andrew Roughan
Innovation Parks and Centres
22/09/2024

Andrew Roughan – CEO Plexal, orchestrating innovation outcomes

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 […]