LabNotes

In February, Gregor Rae, Chairman and CEO of BusinessLab, gave an inaugural lecture to the International MBA student cohort at the University of Aberdeen. "The Art of the Pitch" is the first of two modules intended to help students improve and finesse their presentations to potential investors and employers. The second module is entitled "The Science of the Pitch".

The future is in Newcastle

Technology Watch website lauds the Microsoft Corporation - ActiveAge presentation at the Gerontological Society of America's annual conference in New Orleans, and cites Newcastle upon Tyne as 'the future' in terms of ageing.

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ActiveAge

The ActiveAge team has started another wave of research into robotics, which will provide the theme for the next ActiveAge publication. A Newcastle partner meeting has also been scheduled for the 26th of January, when plans for the 2011 ActiveAge Summit will be finalised.

Renewables

The BusinessLab research team has been looking into the growing renewable energy sector. The team is particularly interested in the markets and business models that are developing within this area - and the strategies and processes that are being deployed to capitalise on the opportunities.

More Agents for Swansea

The City and County of Swansea Council are training up a new cohort of Signature Agents. A total of 36 new Agents are being trained to deploy the Family Learning Signature with families across the city.

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BusinessLab is a small, creative and highly motivated team. Whilst our core business is action research, our passion is to ensure that everything we do is effectively applied for the benefit of our partners and clients - who range from multinational corporations to third sector entrepreneurs.

We're working at the cutting edge of social innovation - in community capacity building, in school and family engagement and in economic inclusion. Our partners here are schools, third sector organisations and major corporates with a strong social agenda.

BusinessLab tools, processes and people have been embedded in long term change management programmes by the leadership of some of the country's major corporations. And, by government, we've been commissioned to design some of the most radical approaches to step change economic development in the last 30 years.

Our academic partners range from the ancient Scottish universities, through global educational brands such as MIT, to the new generation of ambitious and forward thinking colleges who are seeking to secure a niche for themselves in a fast-moving global learning marketplace.

But central to our approach, whoever we work with, the focus is on building lasting relationships, on tackling challenges, on exploring issues in fresh and exciting ways and on creating innovative solutions.

Take a few minutes to look through our team snapshots. Whoever you share your time with at BusinessLab, you'll quickly come to see that meeting the needs of our partners and clients - multinational corporation, national government, small business or local community - and delivering lasting and meaningful results, is what BusinessLab is all about.