Supported by Marks and Clerk, University of Manchester Incubator Company (UMIC), Harrison Goddard Foote and Marketing Manchester this year’s conference promises to be the biggest and most successful to date. The event will take place over two days and will offer you plenty of opportunities to learn and network with colleagues from across the globe. We offer you the chance to build your own conference experience by choosing from the various elements available.
Business Incubation Practitioners
Business Support Agencies
Policy Makers
Private Sector Stakeholders
Charitable Support Organisations
Science Parks
Regional Development Agencies
Property Developers
Universities
Technology Transfer Specialists
The Finance Community Lawyers
Large Corporate Organisations
Local Enterprise Partnerships
Business Advisors
Local and National Government
Enterprise Agencies
“These are challenging times for business incubation in the UK. As I write this, the outputs from the Comprehensive Spending Review are beginning to be implemented and have been made public. I recently spoke with a key national agency and they were of the view that even by Christmas much of the ‘dust will not have settled’.
As many of you will know, we took the decision to move our major annual gathering from November to March. As it turns out, this will mean that many of the issues and policies that are currently being debated (not to mention the CSR, the demise of 192 ‘quangos’, Local Enterprise Partnerships, BIS Committees on Science and Technology, and the Regional Growth Fund) should be much clearer by then and this will give us all the ideal opportunity to think collectively and carefully about the way forward for our industry for the benefi t of your clients.
For a number of years now, you have asked us to provide more opportunities for interactive and fl exible ‘roundtable’ discussions at our international conference and this year, at BI12, we will have more of this type of session available to you.
As always, we recognise that our industry is very diverse and that makes it challenging to address everyone’s needs. However, this year’s programme will clearly focus on the two distinct groups that make up the core of the business incubation industry, namely ‘High Growth, High Technology’ and ‘Regeneration’. Both of these groups are essential in delivering and underpinning the government’s plans to ‘re-balance’ the economy, whether in the direction of ‘High Growth Hubs or Local Enterprise Partnerships’ or in terms of the challenges that will arise from the consequences of the large scale
redundancies that are already being announced. The business incubation industry stands ready to help and add value in these areas and UKBI have made this p
oint repeatedly to government and others across the UK. In addition to the main conference programme that is set out in this brochure, we will hold our annual International Gala Awards Dinner on 23rd March at which a number of awards will be presented. I urge you to nominate individuals and organisations that fall into the various categories. There will also be a workshop on Why you Need a Governing Body as well as an introduction to UKBI’s Inspire accreditation process that will be essential in helping government to identify the quality and best practice across our industry.
As I mentioned above, this will be the ideal opportunity for us all to meet and actively engage with each other to deliver our objectives and those of government and our other stakeholders. Finally I would like to thank Marks and Clerk, Harrison Goddard Foote, UMIC and Marketing Manchester for their help, support and sponsorship in making BI12 happen.”
Peter Harman – Chief Executive
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If you would like to find out more about the UKBI Conference or book a place then please download the PDF below which has the booking form and contact details attached.
ukbi_conference_brochure.pdf
