Major Initiatives

Contact Flagship Advisers: Alison Needler, Alan Stewart

What a Collaborative Flagship Initiative is

These are strategic collaborations between business and our collaborators from higher education enabling business to de-risk innovation challenges. Collaborative Flagship Initiatives are designed to strengthen the knowledge economy of our sub-region.

What a Flagship Initiative delivers

The issues facing business will shape our collaborations with them. For example our responses to technological issues may deliver solutions involving transforming technologies and business organisation issues may result in Collaborative Flagship Initiatives in business systems re-engineering. In every case we will be looking for the unique capabilities our universities bring to the table.

Flagship Initiatives

We are currently working with our business and university partners on the areas of:

• Sustainable Energies - Alan Stewart
• Digital media - Alison Needler

Previous Flagship areas have included:

• Innovation in supply chain and procurement systems
• Business issues facing the legal profession
• Cost modelling techniques