Women in Innovation: What we need to know about innovation

June 29, 2020

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Here at Inventya we love supporting innovators to commercialise and grow!

So with that in mind, we are going to be hosting an online event in Innovate UK's Women in Innovation series on Monday 29th June 2020.

During the seminar we will be talking about innovation processes, opportunities and funds for companies taking the innovation journey.

We hope you will be able to join us alongside guest speakers from Inventya Ltd and the Enterprise Europe Network (EEN), Innovate UK, the Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN) and Innovacc.

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To register click here

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The Agenda for the seminar is as follows:

10:00-10:10: Opening by Dr Giulia Sirigu Inventya/ EEN

10:10-10:45: Seminar: what we need to know about innovation with Valerie De Leonibus (Inventya); Siwan Smith (KTN) ; Dr Giulia Sirigu (EEN) and in collaboration with Innovate UK

10:45-11:00: Case study: INNOVACC

11:00 -11:30: Q&A and Networking

The event is organised by EEN partner Inventya to support Innovate UK’s Women in Innovation Programme.

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