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The London Knowledge Transfer Awards 2008 London Knowledge Transfer Awards 2008

KnowledgeEast as joint sponsors with West Focus are pleased to support the London Development Agency's London Knowledge Transfer Awards 2008.

We represent a consortia supporting more than 200,000 Higher Education students.  HE students are tomorrow’s entrepreneurs, graduating in disciplines where self-employment and start-up are commonplace,

from design to physiotherapy to law. Supporting students’ enterprise ideas is key for all of us. As a result we are delighted to sponsor the category for Entrepreneurial Spririt.

The Entrepreneurial Spirit Award is to identify and celebrate the entrepreneurial spirit of students whilst in education.  The judges are looking for candidates who have developed a business idea, ideally focused on their research, which is entrepreneurial in nature.  This could be a student placement in a London based company or it could be a business start-up managed during their own time.

The candidate will need to demonstrate that they have made a positive impact on the capability for innovation and that the project was profitable involving problem solving: adapting existing products for new markets or developing new ones.  Entrants must demonstrate that they were key to the project implementation and that it has had a positive impact on their development.

The other awards are for Knowledge Base Collaboration; Collaborative Innovation Excellence; Environmental Sciences Award; The Knowledge Transfer Champion; and Commercial Deal of the Year.

If you are interested in finding out more about nominating your organisation or a student for the awards please contact Peter Owens on 020 8305 4316, powens@trinitylaban.ac.uk .

About KnowledgeEast

KnowledgeEast offers unique access to the resources and expertise of eight universities and colleges in East London and the Thames Gateway, and capitalises on the skills and knowledge of over 5000 academics, 100,000 students and more than 40 top-rated research departments to nurture enterprise in the region.

Companies and organisations can use KnowledgeEast as the gateway to find academic experts, technical expertise and resources to help solve business problems, improve skills, develop products and improve business processes. We collaborate with a range of partners to turn the latest research and ideas into practical support to help organisations of any size, in any sector, make changes to improve perfromance and productivity.

The KnowledgeEast members are

  • Goldsmiths, University of London
  • London Metroploitan University
  • Queen Mary, University of London
  • Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication
  • Rose Bruford College
  • Trinity Laban
  • University of  East London
  • University of Greenwich

Vist www.knowledgeeast.net for more information and to contact the KnowledgeEast team.