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BAM2020 Conference In The Cloud

We are delighted to confirm the following keynotes will take place during BAM2020 Conference In The Cloud: Thursday 3rd September: 15.00 – 15.45 Professor Henry Mintzberg, Cleghorn Professor of Management Studies at McGill University, Canada ‘Management in the age of the pandemic: Rebalancing our organization, our societies and ourselves’ So-called liberal democracies, especially the U.S. and…

Helping businesses recover from the COVID-19 lockdown

Top experts are coming together to help Sussex businesses recover from the pandemic lockdown. The University of Brighton’s Centre for Change, Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management (CENTRIM), Coast to Capital Local Enterprise Partnership, and Business East Sussex have teamed up for a four-part webinar series aimed at offering insights and support. The webinars have been created…

The economic, social and environmental importance of the mining industry

Greetings from Guyana! Tim Laing writes… I am an environmental economist interested in sustainable development – the move towards a growth path that promotes the environment, management of natural resources and improvements in the economic and social well-being of individuals. A key aspect of this research involves the extractive industries, a much-maligned sector – due…

Sergio Yates visits CENTRIM

“Dr Sergio Yates, Technology Directory Advisor in FAPERJ visited CENTRIM last week and we had the chance to discuss several joint initiatives between CENTRIM/University of Brighton and Brazilian organisations. Sergio was a part a Visiting Fellow in CENTRIM while doing his PhD thesis and had the chance to witness first-hand CENTRIM’s work. It is always…

International Social Enterprise Day – 21st November 2019

On 21st of November we celebrated International Social Enterprise Day with a day full of inspiration, networking and learning about the Spark Social Enterprise programmes and tools. In the beautiful Halles des Tanneurs in Brussels no fewer than 100 social entrepreneurs, European and local policy makers and representatives of network and support organisations gathered. The…

Open Innovation Workshop 3

Guest Speaker: Deborah Luffman, Finisterre Main Speaker: George Tsekouras, CENTRIM Director The third Open Innovation Workshop run by the Green Growth Platform, Clean Growth UK’s South East Hub helped SMEs focus on new product developments and issues but also decisions involved when a company is setting up partnerships for developing an innovation. The day was…

Open Innovation Workshop 2

Guest Speaker: Rikesh Shah from Transport for London Main Speaker: George Tsekouras, CENTRIM Director The second Open Innovation Workshop run by the Green Growth Platform, Clean Growth UK’s South East Hub helped SMEs focus on issues and decisions involved when a company is setting up partnerships for developing an innovation. The day was facilitated by…

Open Innovation Workshop

Working with partners means you can stretch beyond your current capabilities and resources to achieve more. Run by the Green Growth Platform, Clean Growth UK’s South East Hub, this workshop helped SMEs understand the range of issues and decisions involved when a company is setting up partnerships for developing an innovation. The day was facilitated…

CENTRIM SPECIAL EVENT 15th JULY 2019 RESEARCH WITH IMPACT: THE CONTRIBUTION OF PROFESSORS HOWARD RUSH AND TIM BRADY TO CENTRIM’S 36-YEAR JOURNEY

On Monday 15th the CENTRIM team welcomed many colleagues and friends who joined us to celebrate the work undertaken over many years by professors Howard Rush and Tim Brady as they prepare to leave their full-time posts in CENTRIM. First things first… Lunch time! The meeting started with a welcome from Professor Phil Ashworth…

The INSPIRE project in the ISPIM 2019 Conference

A stand with the outcome of our INSPIRE project A Hot-topic Discussion table on Open Innovation and SMEs with Ekaterina Albats and Aline Figlioli A Panel with George Tsekouras, Wim Vanhaverbeke, Sam Waes and Marko Torkkeli on enablers and challenges for Open Innovation and SMEs A presentation of the INSPIRE Methodology and the INSPIRE portal…