The Royal Academy of Engineering's Regional Seminar on Innovation

18 December 2006

You are invited to attend a strategic meeting on methods to enhance innovation in business. As part of the Royal Academy of Engineering's Regional Innovation seminars, and supported by Yorkshire Forward and the University of Leeds, the event is aimed at better connecting small and large businesses and universities to enhance their competitive edge and develop new opportunities.

Through a series of short talks based on real case studies, and discussion, the opportunities for collaboration at regional, national and international levels and bottlenecks will be explored. Topics for discussion will include drivers and needs for regional innovation, creating new engineering businesses from universities, building value through collaboration, sustaining innovation in a global market place and marks of a creative engineering business.

By attending the event you will have the opportunity to meet and input to policy makers responsible for the regional and national innovation agenda, interact with UK's leading engineers, learn about methods of connecting businesses with university capabilities and comment on your needs for enhancing innovation within your sector. Dialogue from the meeting will be used to inform future strategy development of the sponsors.

Registration for the event is at 15.30, concluding following refreshments at 20.30. To register your interest in attending and to receive the final programme, please e-mail Natasha.Zelem@yorkshire-forward.com, or telephone 0113 394 9756. There is no charge to attend.