EEDA - East of England Development Agency

ERBI’s BioPartnering Exchange

Join us for the 2009 ERBI conference and partnering event - Europe’s largest biocluster gathering.

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East of England European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) Competitiveness Programme 2007-13 Regional Workshops October/November 2008

During October and November 2008, EEDA hosted seven events across the region to raise awareness of the opportunities available under the 2007-13 ERDF Competitiveness Programme.

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Open Innovation Conference 2009

The EEDA sponsored conference on Open Innovation is an unrivalled opportunity for entrepreneurs, businesses, innovation centres, enterprise hubs, networks, research institutions and multinationals to come together.

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Employee Engagement — MacLeod Review

EEDA is joining with the East Midlands Development Agency and Advantage West Midlands to host a consultation on the MacLeod Review of Employment Engagement.

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Growing Our Future Food Conference

How Secure is food supply in the UK? Where will future food supply come from? Is there scope to increase UK production? Is it necessary? What factors are limiting production? What effect will increased production have on the environment?

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The ideas exchange - redefining profit in the 21st century

New businesses are created every day, they share one thing in common - the need to make a profit to survive. But, more often than not, it is passion that moves people to start a business and it is passion that continues to fuel that business.

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Rising to the Challenge - Luton

Set your sights on London 2012 with a view to winning a share of £6 billion - the estimated total value of London 2012 supply contracts. Experts are on hand to show where to find them, what you need to do to be in the running and how to win them!

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"Don't re-invent the wheel" - Inspire East Annual Conference

Learn about examples of good practice and inspiring speakers on building sustainable communities.

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East of England Energy and Environment Expo (E5xpo)

The E5xpo aims to promote and showcase businesses and organisations in the Environmental Goods and Services sector that have innovative services or technologies that are helping the world move towards a low carbon economy.

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Exhibition of Advanced Manufacturing and Engineering

The biggest event of its kind in the region this year - and it's free to attend!

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East of England economy: a joint response to changing economic circumstances

Join Rt Hon Angela Eagle MP, exchequer secretary to the Treasury, and Rt Hon Barbara Follet MP, regional minister, to discuss the work being carried out by the government and EEDA in response to the challenges of tougher economic circumstances.

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Growth in a low carbon economy - EEDA's annual meeting

Join EEDA at our annual meeting taking place on 9 September 2008 from 4.30pm, with arrivals from 4.00pm, until 7.00pm in Newmarket, Suffolk.

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Nar Ouse Regeneration Area (NORA), King's Lynn

As part of its Regional Infrastructure programme, EEDA is helping to fund the Nar Ouse Regeneration Area - a major project to bring a large area of brownfield land back into productive use.

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Supporting migrant workers

Through its Economic Participation programme, EEDA is helping migrant workers find work and develop business opportunities across the East of England.

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Fen Drayton Lakes

With the help of EEDA's Regional Infrastructure programme, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) is transforming former gravel workings in Cambridgeshire into a major new nature reserve.

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Watford Health Campus

As part of its Regional Infrastructure programme, EEDA is playing a key role in the redevelopment of a 26.5-hectare brownfield site in west Watford.

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Anglesey Abbey

Through its Regional Renaissance programme, EEDA contributed £700,000 to the cost of a new visitor centre at Anglesey Abbey, a popular National Trust house and garden near Cambridge.

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Destination Growth

EEDA-run Destination Growth is the East of England's biennial business event, open to the region's most successful small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs).

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A smarter way to develop new products for global markets

In an increasingly competitive global marketplace, how do you build a successful and sustainable business?

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Bench2Boardroom

Bench2Boardroom is the UK's largest life science networking event.

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The ninth Cambridge enterprise conference

EEDA is pleased to support the ninth Cambridge enterprise conference 'Put a Tiger in your Tank?' taking place on 17 September.

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ESF video case studies

A series of video case studies from the ESF

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Little Acorn Network

Set up by home-worker, Alice Bason in August 2006, the Little Acorn Network has provided a supporting role to small rural creative businesses and workers in North Norfolk and beyond.

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Camgrain

The biggest, cleanest and greenest processing centre in the UK for wheat, barley and other crops, based in Linton, Cambridgeshire.

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OrbisEnergy

The landmark building in Ness Point, Lowestoft is an enterprise hub for businesses involved in the renewable energy sector.

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Bedford i-Lab

EEDA provided majority funding for Bedford i-Lab, a state-of-the-art business centre offering high-quality, fully managed offices to small, innovative companies looking to grow in a supportive environment.

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Centre for Integrated Photonics

The EEDA-owned Centre for Integrated Photonics (CIP) is turning research and development into technologies such as the super-fast broadband networks of the future.

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Cranfield Water Efficiency Project

The EEDA-funded Cranfield Water Efficiency Project studied the ways in which water is managed on the region's farms and gave farmers advice about irrigation and managing their water usage.

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CREAM - Cambridge Rural Enterprise And Mentoring

EEDA is funding CREAM - the Cambridge Rural Enterprise And Mentoring initiative - to encourage people in economically disadvantaged parts of the county to start their own businesses or social enterprises.

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CRed: Community Carbon Reduction Programme

The CRed carbon reduction initiative, supported by EEDA funding, helps regional businesses measure their carbon emissions, and then reduce them in ways that bring commercial as well as environmental benefits.

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CUBIC: Cranfield University Business Incubation Centre

Cranfield University's Business Incubation Centre (CUBIC) offers rent-free office space to budding entrepreneurs trying to develop hi-tech and knowledge-based companies.

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East of England Innovation Relay Centre

The EEDA-funded East of England Innovation Relay Centre (EEIRC) offers free advice, information and "matchmaking" services to companies promoting - or looking for - innovative products and technologies.

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East of England Manufacturing Advisory Service (MAS East)

Directed and funded by EEDA, MAS East helps manufacturing companies develop their business and production processes.

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Essex UnITe

Essex UnITe is a training project, part-funded by EEDA, which is bringing the broadband revolution to supported housing scheme residents in a growing number of Essex towns.

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firstsite:newsite

As part of its Regional Renaissance programme, EEDA is funding firstsite:newsite, a purpose-built centre for the visual arts in the St. Botolph's area of Colchester.

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Grant for research and development - Nicholas Haan, Blue Gnome

Nick Haan, the founder of Blue Gnome holds a glass test slide up to the light and says: "This, and its associated software is what it is all about."

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Grant for Research and Development Case Study - Bob Boyle and Stuart Travers, Sentinel Oncology

Though they didn't know it at the time Bob Boyle and Stuart Travers' business partnership began when they met at Victoria Coach Station on the way to a stag weekend.

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Health Enterprise East

NHS staff often have ideas for improving a clinical process, getting their jobs done more effectively or promoting better health.

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Healthy Steps to Employment

Healthy Steps to Employment (HSE) is an innovative project that helps people on Incapacity Benefit in Bedfordshire and Luton take the steps necessary to get back into work.

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Hertfordshire Business Incubation Centre (HBIC)

The Hertfordshire Business Incubation Centre, which is supported by the East of England Development Agency (EEDA), provides practical assistance to high-tech businesses.

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Hethel Engineering Centre

The EEDA-backed Hethel Engineering Centre in Norwich helps the region's high-tech businesses - established and new - by providing a base, equipment, training and other much-needed support to help them grow.

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Inspire East

EEDA set up Inspire East in 2005 to advise planners, architects, engineers and other professionals who are working to create and manage sustainable communities in the East of England.

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Integreat Yarmouth

This EEDA-backed project is restoring the fabric of Great Yarmouth by giving the Norfolk seaside town a major facelift.

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IP-City Centre

EEDA's enterprise hubs programme has funded IP-City Centre, a complex of well-equipped office suites and conference facilities that offers growing businesses space to expand in a thriving location near central Ipswich.

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Laptop Loan Scheme

EEDA's involvement in a scheme to bring computer skills to those who need them aims to reduce social exclusion and improve people's prospects in an employment market where computer literacy is increasingly regarded as essential.

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Lowestoft Enterprise Park

Twelve light-industrial 'incubation' units have been built at Lowestoft Enterprise Park with funds provided jointly by EEDA and NWES (Norfolk and Waveney Enterprise Services).

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Luton Carnival Arts Centre

The EEDA-funded Luton Carnival Arts Centre will be a national centre for carnival excellence, boosting Luton's economy, cultural heritage and tourism.

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Luton Innovation Business Base

The new EEDA-funded Luton Innovation Business Base will provide 100 high-end office units for technology start-ups, leading the town's move towards a high-tech, knowledge-based economy

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Norfolk Open Link

Norfolk Open Link is a pilot scheme offering free wireless Internet access in central Norwich and parts of south Norfolk.

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North Suffolk Skills Centre

EEDA is working to increase skill levels within the workforce of rural north Suffolk by supporting a new vocational training centre.

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NR5 Project, Norwich

An injection of capital from EEDA has helped to create a purpose-built base in Norwich for socially excluded young people.

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Proof of Concept Fund

EEDA's Proof of Concept fund helps small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) find out if their new products and ideas are likely to make money.

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Proof of Concept Fund Case Study - Derek Price, Bactest Ltd

Bactest Ltd was one of the first companies to receive proof of concept funding from EEDA.

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Proof of Concept Fund Case Study - Ray Pitman, KIS Ltd

Ray Pitman is a man with a very clear mission. "What I am trying to do is make the bra clip more comfortable for women, give it a smoother outline and make it easier to fasten and unfasten."

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Rainham Marshes nature reserve

Rainham Marshes lies on the north bank of the Thames on the border between London and Essex. It is a haven for wildlife in a highly industrialised area.

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Regional Cities East

EEDA-funded Regional Cities East (RCE) is an alliance comprising Colchester, Ipswich, Luton, Norwich, Peterborough and Southend-on-Sea.

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Renewables East

Renewable sources of energy are firmly on the political agenda, and the East of England is well placed to provide them.

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Responding2Redundancies

EEDA has provided over £1 million funding for Responding2Redundancies (R2R), a scheme that offers the most appropriate job advice and training for people undergoing redundancy.

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Social Enterprise East of England (SEEE)

EEDA-funded SEEE is the only region-wide organisation that co-ordinates and promotes the work of "social enterprises" across the East of England.

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This Way Up!

EEDA has worked with the Thames Gateway South Essex Partnership to fund an innovative new careers guide.

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Tilbury Riverside Arts Activity Centre

Situated on the north bank of the Thames, Tilbury Riverside Arts Activity Centre is a building rescued from dereliction and put to new use by a cluster of commercial and voluntary groups, helping to breathe new life into a neglected area of south Essex.

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Towards 2010: LiZLaKe

The EEDA-funded Towards 2010 initiative has helped an Essex-based firm of chartered landscape architects pay for a training course to update vital employee software skills.

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Towards 2010: Pilot Drilling Controls

A subsidised training initiative jointly funded by EEDA has helped Pilot Drilling Controls Ltd (PDC) to improve its performance.

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Waveney Sunrise Scheme

Under the slogan "Working together to regenerate Lowestoft", the Waveney Sunrise Scheme is providing a £14.7 million makeover for Britain's most easterly town.

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BizFizz

BizFizz is an EEDA-backed initiative to help business people in economically disadvantaged areas realise the full potential of themselves and their companies.

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BioPark Hertfordshire

BioPark Hertfordshire is an EEDA-funded research and development centre that helps bioscience and health technology companies grow as they develop new technologies and products.

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