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The fourth annual East Midlands’ innovation Festival (iFestival) launches on Friday 12th March and with the East Midlands Development Agency’s (emda) recent announcement of multi-million pound innovation boost to help regional businesses to exploit innovative ideas, there is plenty to celebrate.
Organised by emda and East Midlands Innovation (the region’s innovation council), the iFestival starts on [...]

Tickets for a business event featuring celebrity survival expert, Ray Mears, are being snapped up.
Less than half of the 150 places at the forthcoming Metamorphosis event on 18 March at the Epic Centre remain, with demand from Lincolnshire businesses far surpassing the organisers’ expectations.
Part of the Innovation Advice and Guidance initiative, Metamorphosis is the opening [...]

Ray Mears, the man best known for his ability to build a shelter from bamboo and teaching people how to survive in the harshest conditions, will join Lincolnshire’s most recognised chef, Rachel Green, on stage at a business event with a difference next month.
The celebrity survival expert and cook will join business advisers from Angle [...]

There are only a few places left for the chance to win bespoke advice and support to help turn a great business idea into a reality.
Local businesses, entrepreneurs and individuals attending the innovation EXPO (iEXPO) on 12 March at Athena in Leicester, will be able to pitch their innovative ideas in a Last Business Standing [...]

A public sector organisation that provides support, advice and funding for East Midlands construction companies and their supply chains will be making its debut at this year’s Ecobuild.
The Sustainable Construction Innovation Network (iNet) will be joined by four of the region’s leading innovative organisations; Hertalan UK, LEDinlight Ltd, The University of Northampton and Northamptonshire Enterprise [...]

The credit industry is showing signs of recovery following 0.1% growth in the final quarter of 2009.
Figures released today by specialist recruitment websites, www.jobsincredit.com and www.jobsinrisk.com, have revealed a 40 per cent increase in the number of jobs listed on its credit and specialist risk, compliance and auditing employment websites, compared to September 2009.
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The importance of Leicester’s creative industries sector and how start-ups can work together more effectively will be discussed at an Enterprising Places Network event this month.
Entrepreneurs and businesses are invited to attend the free event entitled ‘Leicester and the creative industries sector – driving enterprise or creating good added value?’ on Wednesday 10 February at [...]

A Northamptonshire company is calling on local businesses to help them deliver an innovative range of self-heating meals into the UK market.
Mainstay Enterprises Ltd, the sole supplier of HOTBOX Self Heating Meals in the UK, has posted the product to the East Midlands Development Agency’s (emda) new, online innovation Exchange (iExchange) service.
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The official launch of this year’s East Midlands innovation Festival (iFestival), which runs from 12th March to 23rd April, is only 30 days away as over 150 events involving businesses, universities and public sector organisations from across the East Midlands are expected to take place.
The programme of events will kick off with an innovation EXPO [...]

A video gaming champion has proved she is no novice after receiving a business loan from Small Loans for Business (formerly Enterprise Loans East Midlands) to develop a computer game training company.
Kathy Zablotzky, 54, from Gainsborough, runs the Professional Gamer Training Academy (PGTA), which offers gamers online access to expert advice and lessons from experienced [...]