Design Foundations 2 Briefing - Dundee

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This event is in partnership with the <A HREF="http://www.dundee.ac.uk/entrepreneurship" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">University of Dundee Centre of Entrepreneurship</A> and Dundee Design Festival, produced by UNESCO City of Design, Dundee.
 
Design Foundations for Early-stage Design 
 
<A HREF="http://designfoundations.co.uk" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Design Foundations</A> is a programme from Innovate UK for businesses to identify innovation opportunities and generate better propositions for desirable, useful and feasible products, services and business models. It is open to any UK business in any sector, so whether you work in manufacturing or health, digital or engineering, it can help your development.
 
The briefing event will outline how it can help your business address critical challenges such as:
 
Making sure your next development is desirable in the market by:
<UL>
<LI>understanding customer behaviour, motivations and experiences</LI>
<LI>quickly simulating and testing new propositions with minimal investment</LI>
</UL>
 
 Identifying opportunities in disruptive future technological, social or environmental changes by:
<UL>
<LI>Exploring new ways to create value, efficiency and resilience</LI>
<LI>Ensuring your business remains commercially viable throughout</LI>
</UL>
 
 Identifying viable routes to market and new applications by:
<UL>
<LI>Communicating the benefits of a novel technology to investors and customers</LI>
</UL>
 
 Building your business’ innovation capability by:
<UL>
<LI>Uniting teams and partners behind a clear, compelling vision</LI>
<LI>Improving your innovation processes and design capability</LI>
</UL>
 
 The event will bring together companies and designers to network and build the right partnerships.
 
<A HREF="http://designfoundations.co.uk" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">The Design Foundations programme</A> is a great opportunity to develop your organisation’s design capability and lay the foundations for compelling, high-value innovations that will attract investors and customers. 
 
 
Agenda
09:30 Arrival and Registration
10:00 Welcome and introductions - Dr Edward Hobson, Knowledge Transfer Network
10:10 Competition Scope for Design Foundations - Ben Griffin, Innovate UK
10:35 Q&A Session 10:55 Application Process Outline - Ben Griffin, Innovate UK
11:10 Q&A Session 11:30 Break (with tea and coffee)
12:00 Innovation Networks and Support – Brian McNicoll, Enterprise and Entrepreneurship Manager, Dundee University
12:10 Local Design and Innovation Network – Andrew Cameron, V&A Museum
12:15 How KTN Can Help Your Business - Dr Edward Hobson, Knowledge Transfer Network
12:20 Company Elevator Pitch Presentations
13:15 Lunch and Networking – 1-2-1 meetings & Networking Wall
14:00 Event Close

University of Dundee

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