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Accelerate your Business Event, 26th November 2104, The Orangery, Margam Park Project Leader: Cal Heath, David Guite, Tony Burnett Project Partners: KEW Network Abstract: A Swansea University event focused on attracting an audience of SME’s and Industry experts to showcase projects and the capabilities located within the University. The event featured several major Swansea University project and inspirational key note speakers. The Dragon Innovation Team led a session on ‘Support Services for Business Growth: Access to People; Access to Technology’ with Howard Nicholls from the Technology Strategy Board ( now Innovate) . Background and Rationale: KEW is a business-academia forum run by the Department of Research and Innovation at Swansea University. Its purpose is to facilitate the exchange of ideas and knowledge as well as provide networking and collaborative opportunities. It is the largest business network at the University.
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The theme of this networking event was ‘Accelerating Business Growth’. It featured recognised Swansea University projects and success stories, exclusive academia-business collaborations, SME leadership and funding programmes, as well as exceptional keynote talks, business clinics and workshops, all focused on supporting business growth. Result: Over 130 delegates attended over the duration of the event. The DIP team led a session on ‘Support Services for Business Growth: Access to People; Access to Technology’ with Howard Nicholls from the Technology Strategy Board (now Innovate UK) Find out more: Dave Guite: Department of Research and Innovation, Swansea University: +44 (0)1792 606060 or d.r.guite@swansea.ac.uk Cal Heath: Department of Research and Innovation, Swansea University: +44 (0)1792 606060 or c.heath@swansea.ac.uk Tony Burnett: Department of Research and Innovation, Swansea University: +44 (0)1792 606060 or a.m.burnett@swansea.ac.uk Lisa Lucas: Commercial Services, Swansea Metropolitan: University of Wales Trinity St David : +44(0)1792 481163 or lisa.lucas@smu.ac.uk Nicola Powell: Commercial Services, Swansea Metropolitan: University of Wales Trinity St David:+44 (0)1792 481163 or nicola.powell@smu.ac.uk
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