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Welcome to think Business with Birmingham
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I trust you will enjoy reading about some of the ways that the University of Birmingham directly support businesses, entrepreneurs and start-ups to help grow their business.
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If your business is seeking a solution that will drive it forward, or a fresh perspective on a particular challenge, then we have an enthusiastic team of Business Engagement Partners ready to listen and to work with you.
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Whether it’s a short term solution or a long term project you have in mind, we can help you to tap into the world-class expertise at the University of Birmingham. We look forward to hearing from you.
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Gurmit Kler
Head of Business Engagement
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Join the Club!
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Would you like to network and exchange ideas with other companies, and members of the business engagement team and academic staff at the University of Birmingham? Then join the University of Birmingham Business Club.
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Among a range of benefits, you will receive regular invites to our breakfast briefing events where you will have the opportunity to discuss topical business issues with members of our team as well as contacts from other companies.
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Scientists take the grind out of producing one of the world’s hardest materials known to mankind
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The University has a large portfolio of patents available for licensing to organisations like yours. Whether it’s a life-changing vaccine or a piece of time-saving technology, our intellectual property could become your company’s crowning glory.
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Read about a technology that provides a cheaper and more efficient way of processing one of the hardest materials on the planet, which in turn could lead to the production of lighter, stronger and more hardwearing machinery. Scientists at the University of Birmingham have developed a new method of producing boron carbide powder which uses lower temperatures and introduces fewer contaminants than current processing methods.
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Licensing partners are currently being sought by the University’s commercialisation arm, Alta Innovations, to commercialise the technology.
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Providing a train of thought
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Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTPs) are one example of how funding can support your company to undertake research projects.
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Cogitare Ltd, a niche consultancy whose core business is the sale of solutions for the optimisation of rail infrastructure and operations, has recently teamed up with the University of Birmingham’s Centre for Railway Research and Education on a KTP project. The KTP will seek to help the Company develop innovative methods to measure and model ‘real’ rail capacity and to validate and improve capacity simulations and simulators.
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Learn more about this KTP and other funding opportunities that may be available for your company.
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Recruiting our students to work for you
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We are developing students at the University of Birmingham who can respond and adapt quickly to the needs of your business and our Careers Network offer a range of opportunities for you to promote your vacancies to our graduate, and undergraduate students.
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West Midlands based SME, Armada, is an IT Company specialising in the development of user assistance systems, including running training courses, developing e-learning systems and online help systems. Armada identified a gap for a social media ‘savvy’ person with key business, marketing and IT skills to improve its website presence using up to the minute communication mechanisms such as Facebook and Twitter. Armada decided that they would address this gap by offering a graduate internship.
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Transforming biomedical innovation into enterprise
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Opening in September 2014 at the University of Birmingham, the Biomedical Innovation Hub will be a fully serviced biomedical laboratory specifically designed to provide entrepreneurs and innovative start-ups with access to affordable laboratory facilities and equipment, as well as business support and advice.
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Hub tenants will benefit from the ideal location of Birmingham Research Park, in the heart of the Edgbaston Medical Quarter, and adjacent to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, one of the largest academic trust-based ‘super hospitals’ in the world. With access to world class research at the University of Birmingham, and one of the most significant collections of clinical trials activity in Europe, we can confidently say that companies based here will benefit from a proposition which is unique in the UK.
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British Science Festival comes to Birmingham
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The British Science Association, in partnership with the University of Birmingham, Birmingham City Council, Birmingham City University and main sponsor EDF Energy is bringing the British Science Festival to Birmingham this year.
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The Festival, which is taking place between 6–11 September, aims to celebrate all things scientific and encourages researchers to share their work with the public. Around 60,000 people are expected to attend the five-day festival, which will feature about 250 entertaining and thought-provoking events and activities appealing to everyone from family groups to professionals.
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If you would like to find out about the opportunities and benefits to becoming a festival sponsor, please visit the Festival sponsorship page for more information.
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