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On Thursday 29^th March 2012 The Department of Business, Innovation & Skills is hosting a conference exploring the future of publicly-funded Innovation Vouchers.   Lucid Director Alistair Williamson will attend as a National Board member of BDI, the representative body for UK industrial design.  The conference will consider how business, government and academia could work better together, shaping the policy of the Technology Strategy Board, which will run future schemes.

Alistair comments: “Lucid Innovation delivered subsidised design and innovation projects for over 200 small and medium-sized businesses in the pilot innovation vouchers scheme.  Our experience is that there is scope for delivering better value to the taxpayer and recipient businesses in such schemes.  I will be putting forward ideas for improvements and representing BDI policy that schemes must offer businesses a choice of competent providers of design and innovation, not act as an signpost to educational institutions.”

Please contact Alistair by email at ideas@lucidinnovation.com if you would like him to make representations at the conference.

In the first of a series of lively, interactive sessions at Manchester Science Park, Lucid Group Directors Andrew Hodgin and Alistair Williamson will introduce different techniques for getting the most out of brainstorming.  Using real business scenarios we’ll investigate:

• How regular brainstorming make businesses more competitive
• Techniques for generating strategic approaches to what a business should be doing in future
• Techniques are appropriate to unlock sticky, technical problems
• Discovering issues that make a real difference to consumers
• The limitations of brainstorming in product innovation and general guidance in running sessions

Tuesday 27th March , 12.30 – 14.00
Charles Babbage Room, Greenheys, Manchester Science Park, M15 6JJ

Free Registration: http://msp.nutickets.com/innovation