Regular seminars and workshops
TVT runs some 12 or more seminars, workshops and good practice company
demonstration visits every year.
Check out details and book your place at coming events.
Meetings address innovation in all aspects of business development; see
some of the topics we’ve addressed over the last few years in Network core meetings
and those of the Network Special Interest Groups
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- Identifying the critical success factors in your business
- Improving business processes: from product definition to delivery
- Accessing and exploiting the knowledge and resources of the science and technology base
- Technology transfer in the supply chain
- Transnational technology transfer
- Benchmarking: measuring up to the best
- Managing the change process: getting the most from your people
- International collaboration: working together in support of technology development and
innovation
- Towards e-manufacturing: engineering in the new, knowledge economy [Agenda]
- Growth by acquisition: reorganising your business to absorb new people and processes
[Agenda]
- Innovation in industrial, product and engineering design: new ideas, new markets [Agenda]
- Exploring new sources for your concepts, technology, products
and services [Agenda]
- Microsystems technology: the next industrial revolution
[Agenda]
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- Going international: routes to new markets
- Profit by design: the winning combination of form and function
- Breaking the link between throughput and unit cost
- Developing and growing a technology based business
- Introducing new products and services: cutting the cost and time to market
- Profiting through partnerships
- Improving manufacturing performance
- The lean enterprise: competing against the best
- The invention business: TRIZ - the theory of inventive problem solving
- Re-inventing your company in practice [Agenda]
- What turned three very different companies into Millennium Product
award winners? [Agenda]
- Process innovation: the key to sustainable quality, cost and
delivery improvements [Agenda]
- Valuation of IP, intangible assets and unquoted shares [Agenda]
- Humanising technology: the value of good design [Agenda]
- Going international: developing and exploiting global
markets [Agenda]
- Improving competitiveness through marketing and design [Agenda]
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Good practice company demonstrator
visits have included: |
- Ultra Electronics, Greenford, Middlesex
- Zeneca Agrochemicals, Bracknell, Berks
- NDS Broadcast, Southampton, Hants
- Pall Europe, Portsmouth, Hants
- AES, Coventry [Agenda]
- Oxford Engineering, Abingdon, Oxon [Agenda]
- The Morgan Motor Company, Malvern Link [Agenda]
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- Huber + Suhner, Bicester, Oxon
- Oxford Lasers, Abingdon
- Renishaw, Wootton under Edge, Gloucs
- Motorola, Swindon, Wilts
- Oxford Instruments plc, Oxon
- Unipart Eberspaecher Exhaust Systems, Coventry [Agenda]
- Xtrac, Thatcham, Berks [Agenda]
- Four Square (Mars UK), Basingstoke [Agenda]
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- New technology based firms: accelerating their development and growth
- Financing the development of a new technology based business
- Licensing: an effective mechanism for trading technology
- Taking advantage of the TCS: using university expertise and resources to develop new
products, processes and services [Agenda]
- Funding technology and innovation: UK sources of public and
private funds for the development of technology companies
[Agenda]
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- Equity finance: when, how and from whom?
- Corporate venturing: connecting companies to exploit complementary resources and
capabilities for mutual benefit
- Accessing and exploiting the fruits of defence research
- Doing business in the USA
- Technology licensing workshop: when and what to license; essential components of a
licensing agreement; how much can you expect to pay/charge? [Agenda]
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