Events

Ticket prices:

Standard Entrepreneur: £60 + VAT, Social / Ethical Entrepreneur: £30 + VAT, Student: £15 + VAT

10 free spaces available for the first 10 companies to register for the event via Newcastle Science City!

Please contact Jo Soulsby on 211 3027 or email jo.soulsby@newcastlesciencecity.com with details of your name, address, job title, company name and email. The first 10 companies will be notified asap.

Doug Richard’s School for Startups

Host: Start Here! Starting & Growing a Successful Business

In Conjunction with Finance Tree, Newcastle University & Newcastle Science City

Venue: Newcastle University – Curtis Auditorium

Time and Date: Wednesday 3^rd February 2010 / Registration 12:00hrs

Doug Richard, serial entrepreneur and original BBC2 Dragon, moves ahead with his ambitious plan to fast-track fledging entrepreneurs and business owners onto the road of success. Due to recent popular demand Doug and the School for Startups team are holding their much esteemed “Start Here! Starting & Growing a Successful Business” master class at The University of Newcastle in February 2010.

School for startups is the UK's premier provider of business training and tuition. The seminars are designed to be fully interactive, incorporating ‘live’ on the day delegate case studies, video examples, lectures, interactive discussions and Q&A sessions. Doug’s goal is to teach participants the questions they need to ask themselves and equip them to find the right answers. Doug is a humorously entertaining host and will leave you feeling inspired and refueled!

 At "Start Here!" you will learn:

• The key questions every entrepreneur must be able to answer before starting or growing a business
• How to write the perfect business model
• How to identify your product and your market
• How to start an affordable marketing campaign to increase your sales leads
• How to treat the recession as an opportunity, rather than a threat
• How to make money and secure investment

 What's included?

• 6 hours of business tuition with one of the UK's leading entrepreneurs
• Access to online resources and materials, including membership of VentureNavigator (see details below)
• 12 month's free subscription to Doug's monthly newsletter
• Accreditation as a Graduate of School for Startups (web-badge)
• Free refreshments throughout the day

Find out more information on the flyer below. Look forward to seeing you there!

How to feel better and improve your sports training practices

What could be done to improve your training-practice, have fun and contribute to your plans for personal development?

Newcastle Science City and Gateshead Council would like to invite you to the Sports-improvement - Insight Generation event on 26^th January 2010 at Gateshead Stadium.   This event is targeted at sports and fitness enthusiasts and their coaches and trainers.  Its aim is to answer the question “what could YOU do to help yourself train better, have fun and improve continuously - and HOW could your coaches and trainers help you address your needs?”. 

The aim of this event is to generate market insights in the area of sports, exercise and well being, and explore ways that self-help and professional training could work better together. Some examples of sports experiences where training could be improved are: attendance; the preparation-acting-resting sequence; nutrition and hydration; communication and feedback; tactics; spotting individual strengths and helping minimise weaknesses; building on role models.

The outcomes of this event are:

• To find out what works and what doesn’t; Identify best practice and discuss opportunities to better exploit real needs and deliver quick value added solutions
• To match the regional sports agenda with the gathering momentum around science based businesses
• To provide  networking and information exchange between the science and business communities and sports practitioners and professionals
• To provide  attendees with opportunities to gather market intelligence to inform new research ideas and encourage New Product Development

For more information about this event please see programme below.  The details on the programme and the content of the workshop and feedback sessions may be subject to small changes.

Venue:  Gateshead International Stadium, Neilson Road, Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, NE10 0EF ‎[map]

Date: Tuesday, 26^th January, 2010

Time: 8.30am – 1pm Start (Breakfast and Lunch will be provided)

To book your place at this event, please contact Toni Allen at CONNECT North East at t.allen@bridgeclubnorth.com or phone 0191 230 5742.

RTC North, Newcastle Science City and Marks & Clerk LLP teamed up to provide businesses in the North East with an exclusive workshop highlighting the value of their IP portfolio. This workshop helped SMEs to appreciate the importance of harnessing their unprotected assets and extracting the maximum potential from their IP portfolio.

Annual summit of six science cities to share best practice and progress.