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16 March 2010 - Business school makes innovative links
Bradford University School of Management has formed an Innovation Club for some of the region's top businesses. As a first step, business chiefs have been paired to visit each other's companies and identify innovative ideas for their own businesses.
In May, all the Club's founder members will meet again to share what they have learnt with the wider group.
The Club was the brainchild of Dr Nigel Lockett, director of the centre for entrepreneurship and innovation management at the School. He said: "I've been working with three companies on their innovation processes - Pace, Hallmark and Premier Farnell. They were saying they'd like to meet each other and share ideas, so I organised a dinner and invited half a dozen other businesses.
"The response was immediate and overwhelmingly enthusiastic. All the Club members are from different sectors and they all manage innovation in different ways. One business has already gone away saying they are going to make innovation a boardroom issue."
The other founding members of the group are Arco, Arena Group, Foundation, Foster's Bakery, Gordons and NG Bailey.
Dr Lockett added: "I think the strength of this group is its diversity, including a third sector organisation. Everyone loved what Foster's Bakery had done - bringing four food students from Singapore Polytechnic to shadow and challenge their senior managers for six weeks. Businesses from any sector could do something on these lines."
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