Tech Catalyst
Accelerating innovation in the Tech sector
About the Catalyst
The Tech Catalyst is designed for key stakeholders around Morecambe Bay, interested in connecting with academic expertise and like-minded peers to address sectoral and place-based challenges and growth opportunities.
Lancaster University are bringing together tech businesses around Morecambe Bay who are actively seeking to innovate. Recognizing the external challenges such as global markets, complex supply chains, carbon reduction imperatives, security risks, skills gaps, and staff retention, these businesses are pivotal to the local economy but have untapped potential to increase productivity and growth.
By creating the space to innovate and collaborate, this fully funded incentive brings together a number of local stakeholders plus industry and academic experts. Over four days we will facilitate a series of investigative and action-focused workshops to collectively explore innovations for a range of aspects such as processes, technologies, data utilization, and market expansion. By fostering collaboration, our aim is to catalyse system-wide changes, enhancing the competitiveness and overall success of the tech sector in the region.
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What's Involved?
Following our tried and tested research-based approach, Lancaster University will facilitate a series of four investigative and action focused sessions to map out goals, challenges, and ambitions. Through a series of co-creation sessions, the Tech Catalyst aims to generate fresh opportunities to diversify into new markets, create competitive advantage through innovation and spotlight the collective technical expertise of electech businesses in the area.
All sessions will be full days at Lancaster University on the following dates: 24th September, 15th October, 21st November, and 16th January.
Benefits to Business
The unique design of the Lancaster University Catalyst process utilises our extensive expertise, continually refined over many years of curating and facilitating transformational and sustainable innovation platforms. During the catalyst process you will be exposed to the generative power of collaboration, underpinned by Lancaster University's Management School research on Open Innovation and Transformational Change in the face of 21st Century Grand Challenges.
Access Funding
Bid in to exclusive funding to accelerate the development of collaborative projects that emerge
Collaborate
Collaborate and engage with key stakeholders to accelerate idea creation
Ideas
Mobilise new ideas through collective experimentation, testing, prototyping and innovation
Develop
Develop your leadership capability through critical thinking, reflection and collaboration
Expertise
Access cutting edge research, facilities and expertise at Lancaster University
Future proof
Future proof your business, sector and place in the changing environment
'The Catalyst is a proven and powerful way of helping individual firms and regional collectives with shared issues to develop effective long-term solutions that capture greater value for them and for the region.”
Chris Mayne, Managing Director at Forsberg Services Ltd
