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European support for
innovative partnerships
MIDLANDS aerospace companies interested
in innovative partnerships need look no further
than the Enterprise Europe Network
(EEN) in Coventry.
The Midlands bureau is part of Europe’s
largest network of support organisations for
small business, created to help companies
reach their full market potential. It offers a
broad range of services and has partner
organisations in more than 40 countries.
Among technologies in EEN’s business
partnering catalogue are flying components
and systems, micro and mini aerial vehicles,
software, composites and materials, an antigravity
mechanism and an amphibious seaplane.
Estelle Colmerauer, the regional aerospace
contact, invites enquiries to
E.Colmerauer@cad.coventry.ac.uk
■ EEN is teaming up with UK Trade and
Investment and the French Chamber of
Commerce in Great Britain at the Paris airshow
to provide a comprehensive package
of support.
▲ www.b2match.com/parisairshow2009
Dr Jon Moore of Intelligent Energy with Gordon Brown, John Denham (Secretary of
State, DIUS), Andy Reed MP and Business Secretary Lord Mandelson.
Prime Minister praises Midlands’ innovation
MIDLANDS company Intelligent Energy (IE) has been cited by UK government ministers as an
example of how innovation in clean technology could aid economic recovery in the UK.
On a visit to IE’s facilities in the Innovation Centre at Loughborough University, Prime
Minister Gordon Brown was briefed on the company’s breakthrough role in providing the
power system for the world’s first manned fuel cell-powered aircraft in 2008.
Intelligent Energy is focused on providing low carbon technologies – one of the areas identified
as having potential to generate new jobs and economic growth. The prime minister
praised the way in which IE had “broken new ground” in low carbon innovation.
▲ www.intelligent-energy.com