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The document discusses plans for creative workshops at Zalando GmbH. It aims to unlock employees' creative potential to improve the company and keep it at the forefront of the market. The workshops would teach collaborative problem-solving and new work methods to help employees and Zalando adapt to constant technological change. The goal is to increase co-creation across departments and conversion rates while making Zalando a more innovative organization.
This document summarizes notes from an innovation workshop held at the University of Lagos Guest House in Nigeria. It includes brainstorming questions, definitions of key innovation terms, barriers and drivers of innovation, and characteristics of an "Innovator Next" - someone with a high propensity to innovate. Participants were encouraged to think creatively and develop their innovative skills through conceptual and network thinking.
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This document discusses Philips IT Innovation and its role in facilitating businesses to innovate via information technology. It describes Philips IT Innovation's program which aims to enable future vision, learning, and decision making through experimentation. It introduces the Digital Accelerator which identifies, develops, and validates digital propositions with business units. It emphasizes the need for a culture of experimentation and discusses competencies like design thinking, lean startup, and agile development which are important for running disciplined experiments. Finally, it discusses the role of IT professionals in enabling business transformation through a system of continuous learning.
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This document discusses the importance and necessity of innovation for businesses. It provides examples of how innovation can lead to cost savings and competitive advantages. Additionally, it outlines strategies for developing a culture of innovation such as establishing formal innovation programs, using tools like brainstorming and idea generation techniques, and collaborating through networks and alliances. The key message is that innovation is critical for business success and survival in today's rapidly changing environment.
Creative Behaviour - David Baskerville and David AvisIIBA UK Chapter
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Neo4j Innovation Lab - Accelerate Innovation through Graph ThinkingNeo4j
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IA Innovatiemanagement II. Voka Kempen. Sessie 1. Pieter Sprangers Am辿rico Ma...Ikinnoveer
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This document provides an overview of innovation concepts and frameworks. It discusses definitions of innovation, types of innovation, and conditions that support innovation. Key frameworks covered include open innovation, design thinking, co-creation, social innovation, management 3.0, and knowledge workers as drivers of innovation. The document also outlines pitfalls to avoid in innovation and compares approaches between start-ups and SMEs. Authors that are referenced in relation to different innovation topics are listed at the end.
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The document announces an Innovation Manager Certification Basic Workshop to be held on January 17-18 in Shanghai and January 20-21 in Beijing. The workshop will teach managers how to integrate innovation with company strategy, manage different types of innovation, use a nine-step innovation process, design innovation portfolios, and nurture an innovation culture. It will be led by Langdon Morris, a globally recognized innovation expert, and will use interactive exercises and case studies. Participants who complete follow-up work can earn an Innovation Manager certificate.
This document outlines 10 things successful businesses obsess over to grow, including having a clear strategy and marketing plan, building strong teams, seeking external finance and advice, increasing prices and reducing costs, focusing on underperforming areas, standing out from competitors, refining their value proposition, improving sales conversations and closing rates, getting more customers and increasing purchase frequency and average order value, speeding up collections and slowing down payments, creating a 6-month growth plan, and making quick decisions to disrupt their industry through massive coordinated action.
This document discusses a leadership development program called Great200Leaders that aims to help ambitious business leaders overcome challenges to growth. The program involves a five step journey including a business review, leadership review, growth plan development, peer group workshops on key leadership topics, and ongoing coaching. Participants receive over 100 hours of support over 6 months to shift from being a good manager to a great leader. Research shows businesses who complete the program average a 贈200,000 increase in profitability, representing a 贈100 return for every 贈1 invested. Interested leaders should contact the named coach for more information.
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The Importance of Innovation for SMEs
Innovation is not Invention.
Everyone and every business can innovate.
Innovation is renewing, changing or creating more effective processes, products or ways of doing things. So for a small business, innovating might well be just having the thought process and courage to try a new marketing strategy or tool, it could be to implement a CRM system or to try a new sales approach. These might not be ground breaking or world firsts (very few things are), but for a small business (and big ones at that) this is innovation.
Why innovate?
Being innovative is key to the success of a small business. Without innovation it is very likely that a small business will fail. This is because if a business is not growing then it is dying. As Einstein said The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.
Learn about how Absolut implemented agile culture and growth hacking from Mathias Westphal, former Global Vice President Growth at The Absolut Company.
This document provides an agenda for an interactive panel presentation on unlocking innovation. The event will include presentations from experts in the aerospace and defense industries, as well as group discussion and an innovation pitch exercise. Speakers will discuss how to train teams and individuals to have everyday breakthroughs and develop innovative solutions. The goal is to provide guidance and tools to help participants generate innovative ideas.
This document is from an innovation consulting firm called Innovation Ink. It summarizes their approach to innovation, which focuses on identifying real customer needs and problems to solve, generating practical ideas that can create value and income, and building innovation capabilities within client organizations. They aim to find "trouble" by exploring unmet customer needs and have experience delivering innovation for major organizations. Their services include idea generation, innovation process support, mentoring, and helping clients develop innovation strategies and capabilities.
Neo4j Innovation Lab - Accelerate Innovation through Graph ThinkingNeo4j
油
The Neo4j Innovation Lab provides a 4-day workshop and accelerator program to help companies accelerate innovation through graph thinking. The lab generates use cases and prototypes graph projects with customers using Neo4j's graph database platform. The methodology involves identifying target use cases, data modeling, building queries and prototypes, and presenting to executives for feedback. The goal is to demonstrate the possibilities of connected data and digital transformation through adopting graph techniques.
CLICKNL DRIVE 2018 | 25 OCT | CIRCO: Creating ValueCLICKNL
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油
This document provides an overview of innovation concepts and frameworks. It discusses definitions of innovation, types of innovation, and conditions that support innovation. Key frameworks covered include open innovation, design thinking, co-creation, social innovation, management 3.0, and knowledge workers as drivers of innovation. The document also outlines pitfalls to avoid in innovation and compares approaches between start-ups and SMEs. Authors that are referenced in relation to different innovation topics are listed at the end.
Interview with Craig Libby, Innovation Thought LeaderCraig Libby
油
Craig Libby is the SVP of Innovation at Wachovia. He discusses how Wachovia's innovation team focuses on problem definition rather than just problem solving. The team also works to better anticipate the future and identify growth opportunities through foresight research. While innovation was previously scattered, the team works to drive innovation strategy, ideas, process, and culture across the organization. Leadership buy-in is key to innovation success, and leaders are often the biggest barrier when they don't support innovation efforts.
Lean Startup Inside a Big Company (with a Shark Tank Twist), Stephen Liguori,...Lean Startup Co.
油
What happens when a small group of mavericks decide to launch an unauthorized version of Lean Startup inside a huge multinational firm like Cisco? Over 1,100 new organic-growth ideas, including a surprise Shark Tank-like ending. Presented by Steve Liguori, (Founder Liguori Innovation and former GE Exec Director of Global Innovation) with Alex Goryachev (Cisco Senior Director Innovation Strategy and Programs) and Oseas Ramirez Assad (Cisco Senior Manager, Business Development and Innovation Enablement.)
The document announces an Innovation Manager Certification Basic Workshop to be held on January 17-18 in Shanghai and January 20-21 in Beijing. The workshop will teach managers how to integrate innovation with company strategy, manage different types of innovation, use a nine-step innovation process, design innovation portfolios, and nurture an innovation culture. It will be led by Langdon Morris, a globally recognized innovation expert, and will use interactive exercises and case studies. Participants who complete follow-up work can earn an Innovation Manager certificate.
This document outlines 10 things successful businesses obsess over to grow, including having a clear strategy and marketing plan, building strong teams, seeking external finance and advice, increasing prices and reducing costs, focusing on underperforming areas, standing out from competitors, refining their value proposition, improving sales conversations and closing rates, getting more customers and increasing purchase frequency and average order value, speeding up collections and slowing down payments, creating a 6-month growth plan, and making quick decisions to disrupt their industry through massive coordinated action.
This document discusses a leadership development program called Great200Leaders that aims to help ambitious business leaders overcome challenges to growth. The program involves a five step journey including a business review, leadership review, growth plan development, peer group workshops on key leadership topics, and ongoing coaching. Participants receive over 100 hours of support over 6 months to shift from being a good manager to a great leader. Research shows businesses who complete the program average a 贈200,000 increase in profitability, representing a 贈100 return for every 贈1 invested. Interested leaders should contact the named coach for more information.
The document provides information about business growth services offered by Oxford Innovation Business Service. They offer workshops to help develop 3-year business strategies, finance and investment plans. They provide expert one-on-one coaching, training and support services to help businesses grow by addressing barriers and developing growth strategies and skills. Their track record shows they have helped over 4,700 companies generate over 贈400 million in wealth and create or protect 9,000 jobs.
This document discusses change management strategies for high-growth businesses. It covers changing the business through red ocean/blue ocean thinking to create new market spaces. Red ocean thinking involves competing on existing factors, while blue ocean thinking creates new value and eliminates unattractive factors. The document also discusses changing people through employee engagement models like the X model and focusing communications using the golden circle approach. Case studies of Cirque du Soleil and alternative transportation options are presented to illustrate these concepts.
The presentation shown by Oxford Innovation at the partner launch to show our potential Grow Cornwall partners what we're going to be doing and how we can work with them to help businesses in Cornwall and the Scilly Isles
This is the presentation deck from the June 14th Working Lunch '2016 The Year of Innovation' hosted by e3. It includes a list of the different models of innovation as well as the advice provided by David Ward, Director of Marketing and Innovation at Yodel.
This document discusses developing an innovation culture within an organization. It outlines 9 roles that are important for innovation projects, including revolutionaries, artists, troubleshooters, and evangelists. It emphasizes that people from all departments have untapped ideas. A culture of questioning, curiosity, iteration, and connecting ideas can help unlock innovation. Leaders should incentivize curiosity, tolerate mistakes, and recognize both ideas and failures. Involving customers and thinking like venture capitalists can help organizations develop new products and get innovation moving.
Small Business Innovation doesn't need to be rocket science. Start with creative thinking and apply the actions in your business to see the results. Presented by Rod Hattch - Managing Director Wisdom.
The Importance of Innovation for SMEs
Innovation is not Invention.
Everyone and every business can innovate.
Innovation is renewing, changing or creating more effective processes, products or ways of doing things. So for a small business, innovating might well be just having the thought process and courage to try a new marketing strategy or tool, it could be to implement a CRM system or to try a new sales approach. These might not be ground breaking or world firsts (very few things are), but for a small business (and big ones at that) this is innovation.
Why innovate?
Being innovative is key to the success of a small business. Without innovation it is very likely that a small business will fail. This is because if a business is not growing then it is dying. As Einstein said The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.
Learn about how Absolut implemented agile culture and growth hacking from Mathias Westphal, former Global Vice President Growth at The Absolut Company.
This document provides an agenda for an interactive panel presentation on unlocking innovation. The event will include presentations from experts in the aerospace and defense industries, as well as group discussion and an innovation pitch exercise. Speakers will discuss how to train teams and individuals to have everyday breakthroughs and develop innovative solutions. The goal is to provide guidance and tools to help participants generate innovative ideas.
This document is from an innovation consulting firm called Innovation Ink. It summarizes their approach to innovation, which focuses on identifying real customer needs and problems to solve, generating practical ideas that can create value and income, and building innovation capabilities within client organizations. They aim to find "trouble" by exploring unmet customer needs and have experience delivering innovation for major organizations. Their services include idea generation, innovation process support, mentoring, and helping clients develop innovation strategies and capabilities.
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- Helping innovators to be successful through projects like the Academy Het Dorp and Health Deal initiatives.
- An agenda for the event including speed networking, presentations on innovation approaches, forming project teams to work on themes, and planning next steps.
- The goals of bringing together a diverse group of people from different sectors to work collaboratively, choose innovation themes, and make agreements and plans as project teams.
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I facilitate two types of innovation workshops: (a) "How-to" workshops (b) "What-next" workshops. Primary objective of the "How-to" workshops is learning tools and techniques. Primary objective of the "What-next" workshops is deriving actions in the innovation journey of a team / organization. Topics include challenge framing, idea generation, idea selection, experiment design, idea communication etc.
This document summarizes an invitation to join a one-year entrepreneurship accelerator program called Generation 2 in London. The program aims to significantly scale businesses and develop entrepreneurs through intensive learning, mentorship, coworking space, and community support. Selected entrepreneurs will receive business methodology training, confidence building, assistance scaling their business, and access to a network of experts and mentors over the course of the year-long program. The selection criteria prioritizes meaningful business ideas that are service-based, scalable, and aligned with the program's values of being open, brave, and focused on creating ownership.
The document summarizes a business growth breakfast event held at the Apple Store in Trafford on June 8, 2016. The agenda includes welcome remarks, a guest speaker from Healthy Step discussing how they adapted their business, a presentation on innovation support services, and closing remarks about an upcoming innovation showcase competition. Attendees will also have time for networking. The event aims to help local businesses learn about growing their company and connecting with resources.
Conducting an Innovation Workshops is an effective approach to encourage the staff to be more creative.
To know more details, visit us at : https://mitidinnovation.com/recreation/the-significance-of-innovation-workshops-for-your-organisation/
The document discusses innovation and the innovation process. It defines innovation as a complex process of turning opportunities into new ideas and implementing them successfully. The innovation process involves four key phases - searching for ideas, selecting ideas, implementing ideas, and capturing benefits. For innovation to be successful, an organization must effectively manage these phases while also considering the people, organization, and innovation strategy context. The document provides examples of innovations over time and common reasons why ideas often fail.
This presentation demonstrates how innovation can help your business remain current, grow, gain competitive advantage and thrive in the future marketplace.
The document discusses innovation at Accenture. It states that innovation is the strategic enabler of Accenture's future growth strategy and the core of its purpose. It describes Accenture's innovation architecture, which includes various entities focused on developing new ways to create business value and innovative solutions for clients, such as Accenture Research, Ventures, Labs, Studios, Innovation Centers/Hubs, and Delivery Centers. The innovation architecture aims to ideate, shape, prototype, build, demonstrate, reuse, and scale innovations across Accenture and for its clients.
際際滷s from Workshop conducted Oct. 2 2009
The workshop is centered around how companies can become more innovative through focusing on their core brand and using the Design thinking process - Inspiration from IDEO and Continuum.
Catalyst - An Intuit Innovation ExperienceIntuit Inc.
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On January 29, Intuit is hosting Catalyst, a small, invitation-only event designed to share the best of what we have learned and are practicing around driving innovation. Seventy-five of our valued business partners and customers will get handson training on innovation concepts and techniques that were pioneered by our founder Scott Cook.
http://bit.ly/IntuitCatalyst
This document outlines Idealabs' plans to boost innovation in large companies and build an entrepreneurial ecosystem in Antwerp, Belgium. It discusses running an accelerator program to select and support early-stage startups, converting a building into an innovation hub for collaboration, and blending large companies and startups through classes, workshops, and an on-site prototyping lab to encourage innovation. The goal is for large companies to act more like startups and accelerate innovation, while supporting startups and building an entrepreneurial community.
1. Innovate & Grow
Your Business
Thursday, 7th
October 2010
Richard Hall Oxford Innovation
Richard Crooks Oxford Innovation
2. Agenda
9.30 Welcome and opening remarks
9.35 Workshop objectives
9.45 Why innovate?
10.00 How innovative are you? A hands-on innovation
exercise
10.30 When to innovate?
11.00 Coffee, refreshments, networking
11.15 How to bring innovation to your business?
12.45 Making it happen
12.55 Closing remarks
13.00 Lunch and networking
13.30 Close
3. Agenda
9.30 Welcome and opening remarks
9.35 Workshop objectives
9.45 Why innovate?
10.00 How innovative are you? A hands-on innovation
exercise
10.30 When to innovate?
11.00 Coffee, refreshments, networking
11.15 How to bring innovation to your business?
12.45 Making it happen
12.55 Closing remarks
13.00 Lunch and networking
13.30 Close
4. Agenda
9.30 Welcome and opening remarks
9.35 Workshop objectives
9.45 Why innovate?
10.00 How innovative are you? A hands-on innovation
exercise
10.30 When to innovate?
11.00 Coffee, refreshments, networking
11.15 How to bring innovation to your business?
12.45 Making it happen
12.55 Closing remarks
13.00 Lunch and networking
13.30 Close
5. Objectives
What is innovation, why is it important?
Develop some initial ideas about
innovation for your business through
Action Learning
Have fun!
6. Agenda
9.30 Welcome and opening remarks
9.35 Workshop objectives
9.45 Why innovate?
10.00 How innovative are you? A hands-on innovation
exercise
10.30 When to innovate?
11.00 Coffee, refreshments, networking
11.15 How to bring innovation to your business?
12.45 Making it happen
12.55 Closing remarks
13.00 Lunch and networking
13.30 Close
7. Why Innovate?
What is innovation?
Innovation - the profitable exploitation of new
ideas
Invention generating new ideas
8. Why innovate?
What is innovation?
not just technology and products, also services
and new ways of doing things
you cannot be innovative by looking harder in
the same direction
9. Why Innovate?
reason 1
its a fact innovative businesses achieve profit
levels 80% higher than similar businesses who do
not innovate!
13. Agenda
9.30 Welcome and opening remarks
9.35 Workshop objectives
9.45 Why innovate?
10.00 How innovative are you? A hands-on innovation
exercise
10.30 When to innovate?
11.00 Coffee, refreshments, networking
11.15 How to bring innovation to your business?
12.45 Making it happen
12.55 Closing remarks
13.00 Lunch and networking
13.30 Close
14. Activity 1
Task: To build the highest tower with the pack of
cards supplied
you may not use any additional materials
fifteen minutes
highest tower wins.
Aces High
19. Agenda
9.30 Welcome and opening remarks
9.35 Workshop objectives
9.45 Why innovate?
10.00 How innovative are you? A hands-on innovation
exercise
10.30 When to innovate?
11.00 Coffee, refreshments, networking
11.15 How to bring innovation to your business?
12.45 Making it happen
12.55 Closing remarks
13.00 Lunch and networking
13.30 Close
21. Activity 2
Task: identify (individually) and discuss (on your
tables) where your business is right now
the business itself (circle), the products /
services (square), the sector / industry (triangle)
what are the implications?
ten minutes
where is your business right now?
22. When to innovate
dont wait until it is too late!
best time to change
worst time to change
23. Agenda
9.30 Welcome and opening remarks
9.35 Workshop objectives
9.45 Why innovate?
10.00 How innovative are you? A hands-on innovation
exercise
10.30 When to innovate?
11.00 Coffee, refreshments, networking
11.15 How to bring innovation to your business?
12.45 Making it happen
12.55 Closing remarks
13.00 Lunch and networking
13.30 Close
24. Agenda
9.30 Welcome and opening remarks
9.35 Workshop objectives
9.45 Why innovate?
10.00 How innovative are you? A hands-on innovation
exercise
10.30 When to innovate?
11.00 Coffee, refreshments, networking
11.15 How to bring innovation to your business?
12.45 Making it happen
12.55 Closing remarks
13.00 Lunch and networking
13.30 Close
25. We make
hinges for
car doors for
the
automotive
industry in
the West
Midlands
Area of activityPotential
1) Defining what we do
Potential
27. Activity 3
Task: re-define a business and its possibilities
chose one volunteered business in your
groups / tables and find out about it - how does it
defines itself?
challenge the definition what knowledge,
skills, capital equipment, distinctive capability
does it have? What does this mean in terms
other possibilities?
15 minutes
choose someone to report back
How do you define your business?
28. Horizon Scanning
...is the systematic examination of trends and
changes that may represent potential threats or
opportunities
29. Some Trends
Aging population
One person households
Globalism vs. localism
Social media revolution
Internet / wi-fi / mobile phones
Green issues
Celebrity Culture
Financial crisis / recession
User-customised services
31. Types of Innovation
There are many different forms of innovation
Incremental / Evolutionary
Disruptive / Revolutionary
Product / Technology
Service / Business model
User led
Open Innovation
33. What is Open Innovation
The idea that by looking outside their own
boundaries, companies can gain better access to
ideas, knowledge and technology, than would be
the case if they relied solely on their own
resources
What is Open Innovation?
34. Why Should Companies Open Up?
To generate increased revenues
Gain access to new applications
Access specialist techniques and tap into additional
manpower in other companies
Achieve critical mass whilst remaining lean
A window on the world - more ideas and better ideas
Dynamic small business sector part
of an Entrepreneurial Economy.
Firms should look beyond their own boundaries
to enhance their competitiveness
35. Open Innovation Quotes
If youre too focused on your current business, its
hard to change and concentrate on innovating.
Bill Gates
Ideas that transform industries almost never
come from inside those industries.
Gary Hamel
38. Activity 4
Task: Ideas to help a business from external
sources
chose one business volunteered in your
groups / tables and create new ideas based on
another company Disney, Amazon,
McDonalds?
think about principles, attributes, processes
15 minutes
choose someone to report back
Open Innovation
39. Agenda
9.30 Welcome and opening remarks
9.35 Workshop objectives
9.45 Why innovate?
10.00 How innovative are you? A hands-on innovation
exercise
10.30 When to innovate?
11.00 Coffee, refreshments, networking
11.15 How to bring innovation to your business?
12.45 Making it happen
12.55 Closing remarks
13.00 Lunch and networking
13.30 Close
40. Making it Happen
practice it, build confidence and believe it
identify quick wins
everyones responsibility, all of the time
define the area to focus on
quantity vs. quality
get different perspectives
understand your customers
be open-minded
43. Agenda
9.30 Welcome and opening remarks
9.35 Workshop objectives
9.45 Why innovate?
10.00 How innovative are you? A hands-on innovation
exercise
10.30 When to innovate?
11.00 Coffee, refreshments, networking
11.15 How to bring innovation to your business?
12.45 Making it happen
12.55 Closing remarks
13.00 Lunch and networking
13.30 Close
44. The IAS partnership
Managed by Business Link West Midlands
Delivered by Oxford Innovation and others in
conjunction with BLWM
Funded by Advantage West Midlands.
45. Innovation Advisory Service
Bureaucracy free and flexible help
Specific problem solving
Helps businesses improve profitability through
innovation in products, processes, business models
and skills
Aims to raise regional competitiveness by increasing
innovation among businesses.
46. Working together
To raise regional productivity the WM IAS is working in
partnership to support companies looking to innovate
and grow
Advantage West Midlands
Business Link West Midlands
IAS
MAS
Universities
48. SUMMARY
How can you start to bring innovation to your business?
Generate ideas and think differently
Access external sources of ideas and innovation
Contact BLWM for an IAS Adviser meeting.
49. Agenda
9.30 Welcome and opening remarks
9.35 Workshop objectives
9.45 Why innovate?
10.00 How innovative are you? A hands-on innovation
exercise
10.30 When to innovate?
11.00 Coffee, refreshments, networking
11.15 How to bring innovation to your business?
12.45 Making it happen
12.55 Closing remarks
13.00 Lunch and networking
13.30 Close
50. Objectives
What is innovation, why it is important?
Develop some initial ideas for your
business through Action Learning
Have fun!
#18: So what can be learnt from this exercise apart from it being a bit of fun?
It shows how we can become creatures of habit who are resistant to change
Demonstrates that in order to move forward it is sometime necessary to destroy what came before
#19: So what can be learnt from this exercise apart from it being a bit of fun?
It shows how we can become creatures of habit who are resistant to change
Demonstrates that in order to move forward it is sometime necessary to destroy what came before
#35: Many larger companies search for new technologies in a systematic way through Open Innovation initiatives with existing and new suppliers. MoD Grand Challenge is another example.
#37: Banbury based Innoval were keen to pursue a number of developments aimed at the defence sector including woven aluminium modelling for the production of high performance bullet proof vests. Oxford Innovation provided support on the Defence Procurement process and provided some useful contacts to the company.
#38: Some months later while working on the IAS pilot in the West Midlands Oxford Innovation were introduced to a building company, based in Southam in south Warwickshire, who were developing blast proof buildings technology for the construction of Embassies, Consulates, Government Ministries and of course military buildings, based on an aluminium frame system.
Oxford Innovation consultants realised that not only were the companies technologies complimentary but that the companies were located less than ten miles apart. Under suitable confidentiality the two companies were introduced to each other.
So, look out for that public building with a bullet proof vest....
#41: Stress free welding using ultrasound was a theoretical possibility pursued by many countries in the sixties. By the seventies only France and the Soviet Union were in the game and even the French gave up in that decade.
#42: Stress free welding using ultrasound was a theoretical possibility pursued by many countries in the sixties. By the seventies only France and the Soviet Union were in the game and even the French gave up in that decade.
#45: Stress free welding using ultrasound was a theoretical possibility pursued by many countries in the sixties. By the seventies only France and the Soviet Union were in the game and even the French gave up in that decade.
#46: Stress free welding using ultrasound was a theoretical possibility pursued by many countries in the sixties. By the seventies only France and the Soviet Union were in the game and even the French gave up in that decade.
#47: Stress free welding using ultrasound was a theoretical possibility pursued by many countries in the sixties. By the seventies only France and the Soviet Union were in the game and even the French gave up in that decade.
#48: Stress free welding using ultrasound was a theoretical possibility pursued by many countries in the sixties. By the seventies only France and the Soviet Union were in the game and even the French gave up in that decade.
#49: Stress free welding using ultrasound was a theoretical possibility pursued by many countries in the sixties. By the seventies only France and the Soviet Union were in the game and even the French gave up in that decade.