IDEAS at Daresbury - ImaginationLancaster

The IDEAS programme aimed at improving and maintaining economic performance of participating businesses by delivering new and specifically tailored knowledge to 40 high-tech SMEs situated at Daresbury Science and Innovation Campus and its wider network of companies in the region and incite the exchange of knowledge between companies.

This was achieved through a close collaboration and sharing of expertise between three leading universities in the North of the UK: Lancaster, Liverpool, Manchester business and management schools and ImaginationLancaster, the creative research and design lab at Lancaster University.

While the whole programme comprised three series of workshops, the last workshop series, Beyond Networking, consisted of five workshops that were centred around topics related to the innovation process like effective network management and creative methods to improve invention capabilities.

As part of the IDEAS programme for business engagement, during the Beyond Networking workshop series, innovative methods and mechanisms for knowledge exchange were explored, developed and implemented.

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Within the IDEAS collaboration we developed new research hypothesis and questions and used engagement with companies as a component of the testing and exploration of these ideas in an action research process that proved to be very productive in pure research terms in addition to strong positive responses from companies

Report: Beyond Networking – Knowledge, Exchange and Innovation

This booklet seeks to highlight, frame and hopefully start to answer many of the issues around creativity, collaboration and growth

A Celebration of Innovation

This event concluded the IDEAS at Daresbury series of engagement activities. Decision makers from regional and national funding bodies were brought together to disseminate the project

Lancaster University Staff Prize 2010

The IDEAS project team was presented with a Lancaster University Staff Prize by the Chancellor Sir Chris Bonington

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We delivered a bespoke session on efficient network management for one high-tech company

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This workshop has looked at Social Networks and how value can be created through them by providing simple and hands-on tools to benefit from your contacts. Networks are, in fact, an important means through which companies can access knowledge and resources to foster innovation

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