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Steve Fleming Steve Fleming, Chair of the Digital 20/20 Public Sector Special Interest Group, looks at technology’s role within public service transformation, and the significant economic opportunity it presents for the Yorkshire and Humber region. ‘Technology shouldn’t just automate existing processes, it should change them.’ There are two sets of things to consider when looking at [...] The European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL) has announced that the city of Hull is to join its ranks in the next wave. Hull’s Service Transformation Laboratory will be one of more than 50 Living Labs, spread across Europe. Living Labs are open innovation platforms which provide research, development, innovation and market validation services in real-life [...] Today, Business Week 2008 reached a climax with the Yorkshire International Business Convention at the Gemtec arena in Hull. The convention is often the highlight of Business Week, and this year was no exception with guest speakers that included George Foreman and Sir Bob Geldof. It’s the start of Hull Business Week and for the next give days we’re at the KC Stadium covering all the goings-on. This will be our third business week, and promises to be the biggest yet, with up to give new programmes each day planned. Broadband Capital Ltd, on behalf of Hull City Council, has joined the ActiveAge research programme as a strategic partner. ActiveAge is a public-private consortium, led by Aberdeen-based research boutique BusinessLab, which aims to research the key issues of an ageing society and to develop innovative solutions that will improve competitiveness, from a corporate, regional and [...] We’ve heard today that our proposal to expand Business STREAM across the Humber sub-region has been endorsed by the city’s Investment Planning Group. This is great news as it opens the door to the presentation of a formal business plan. It’s also good for the partners who were consulted on the bid and gave their [...] We met Bill Walker and Keith Butler from the University of Hull’s Knowledge Exchange. A new Enterprise Centre is being built on the University’s ever-improving Cottingham Road campus with the facility to support 40 businesses. The centre will also help to put budding entrepreneurs and new start companies in touch with academic researchers. It’s hard to believe that it’s almost two and a half years since a casual conversation about the need for online business support turned into a £1.8million ERDF project. And now, just as we get into our stride, the project is coming to an end. |
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