Could your company set our postgrad research students a challenge?

Imagine a group of University of Glasgow postgraduate research students from all types of discipline working together over a few months on a project for your business.

The 2013 Insights to Industry programme is now looking for companies to take part.

Andy from Freescale (automotive) said of the 2012 'Cars of the Future' programme:  'Looking for radical innovation inside your own industry is difficult, as people are constrained by accepted norms and practices, so the different backgrounds and the fresh eyes of the PhD students brought some brand new & exciting ideas to the table"

Intellectual Property for small businesses - what's it all about?

Intellectual Property - do you know your way around it?  Do you know when you need it?  And when you don't need it? 

One of my university colleagues highlighted this app to me recently.   I think it's a pretty good guide to all things IP for the small and micro business.

Have a look. It's free to download on Itunes and is called:

IP for SB

By Goldborough Cottage Studio, published on behalf of The Intellectual Property Office (IPO), Swansea University and IP Wales.

More information at the IPO website link here.

Lynda NicolsonMarketing & Online Community Manager
Encompass, University of Glasgow

Have your say on how businesses learn to trade internationally

There's a research group meeting up in April who really want to make sure businesses have a say in the research that's talking place in University Business Schools. 

Their workshop will look at the learning that firms go through for growth with a particular focus on international.  

It will give the business community the opportunity to meet leading thinkers on how small to medium business owners and managers learn.

Opportunities in the Defence arena

Could there be an opportunity in the Defence arena for your products or technology?

·         Technology for security

·         Enablers: Sensors, signal processing, antenna or COTS technology

·         Smart materials and structures

If these terms are relevant to your business, have a look at upcoming calls from the Centre of Defence Enterprise.  Approximately 42 per cent of the £35 million funding supplied to date through CDE has gone to small and medium-sized companies