Annex B: Visit Programme
Cambridge: Tuesday 29 April 2008
Judge Business School
Meeting with Professor Around Der Meyer, Director
of the Judge Business School
Meeting with Shai Vyakarnam, Director of the Centre
for Entrepreneurial Learning
Meeting with Michael Pollitt, Assistant Director
of the Economic and Social Research Council, Director of Studies
in Management and Economic and Fellow fo Sidney Sussex College
Meeting with Alan Hughes, Margaret Thatcher Professor
of Enterprise Studies and Director of the Centre for Business
Research
Working Lunch with academics and local entrepreneurs
St Johns Innovation Centre and Cambridge ecosystems
Meeting with Walter Herriot, Managing Director, St
Johns Innovation Centre
Company Visits
West Midlands: Monday 12 - Tuesday
13 May 2008
MONDAY 12 MAY 2008
Coventry University Technology Park
Working Lunch at the Design Hub facility
Formal Evidence Session
Warwick University
Round Table discussion with Lord Bhattaacharya, Director
of Warwick Manufacturing Group and representatives of West Midlands
manufacturing companies
Meeting with Alan Curtis, Director of Premier Automotive
Research and Development Programme and Andrew Morris, Managing
Director, Stadco
Tour of the International Automotive Research Centre
and International Manufacturing Centre workshops
Birmingham
Working dinner with Advantage West Midlands, business
representatives and academics
TUESDAY 13 MAY 2008
Longbridge Innovation Centre
Meeting with Bill Oliver Chief Executive Officer,
St Modwen, Mike Wilkes, Managing Director, Scyron and James Windridge,
Regional Manager, Science Recruitment Group.
Qinetiq
Working lunch and tour of the facility
Jaguar Land Rover, Gaydon
Meeting with David Smith, Acting Chief Executive
Officer
Tour of the proving grounds
British Museum: Thursday 5 June
2008
British Museum
Meeting with Isabel Oswell and Gill Webber
Glasgow & Edinburgh: Thursday
12 June 2008
GLASGOW
Scottish Enterprise
Working lunch with Ruth Walker, Director of Customer
Relations, Kevin Kane, Director of Policy Development, Brain McVey,
Director of Operation Management and Eleanor Taylor, Head of Programme,
Proof of Concept Programme, Scottish Enterprise and Dr Graeme
Malcolm, Chief Executive Officer, M-Squared Lasers; Professor
Chris Hiller, co-founder, and Kevin Moore, Chairman Biopta; and
Gerald Kelly, Senior Director, SE Investments
Intellectual Assets Centre
Meeting with Ian Russell, Chief Executive and Jim
Houston, Chairman of the Board of Directors
EDINBURGH
Royal Bank of Scotland
Meeting with Jeremy Larsson, Innovation Team
America: Sunday 20 - Saturday
26 July 2008
WASHINGTON
MONDAY 21 JULY 2008
Ambassador's residence
Briefing with Sir Nigel Sheinwald, KCMG, British
Ambassador
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Meeting with Dr Claire M Saundry, Director, Office
of International and Academic Affairs
Meeting with Mr Marc G Stanley, Director, Technology
Innovation Programme
Meeting with Mr Alex Folk, Manager, Center Operations,
Manufacturing Extension Partnership Programme
Meeting with Ms Clara Asmail, SBIR Program Manager,
Technology Service
Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Meeting with Dr Anthony J Tether, Director and Dr
Robert F Leheny, Deputy Director
Small Business Administration (SBA)
Meeting with Edsel M Brown Jr. Assistant Administrator
and Ronald S Cooper, Senior Policy Analyst, Office of Technology
and Business Development
TUESDAY 22 JULY 2008
Information Technology and Innovation Foundation
(ITIF), British Embassy
Meeting with Karen Mills, MMP Group and Managing
Director, Solera Capital; Dr Andrew Reamer, Fellow, Metropolitan
Policy Programme at Brookings; Howard Wial, Metropolitan Policy
Programme at Brookings, and Shanker Singham, Partner, Squire Sanders
& Dempsey
NORTH CAROLINA
North Carolina Council for the Entrepreneurial
Development, Alexandria Technology Centre, Durham
Meeting with representatives from the Research Triangle
Regional Partnership
The Aurora Funds, Durham
Meeting with Jeff Clark, Managing General Partner,
Investment Team
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Mark Crowell, Associate Vice Chancellor for Economic
Development and Technology Transfer
WEDNESDAY 23 JULY 2008
Science and Business Development and Piedmont
Triad Office
Meeting with Dr Ken Tindall, Senior Vice President
for Science & Business Development; Michael Wilkins, Senior
Vice President of Statewide Operations & Economic Development;
Maria Rapoza, Vice President, Science and Technology Development
Program, John Richert, Vice President, Business and Technology
Development Programme; Christy Russell, Vice President, Government
and State Relations; Mark Lombard, Biosciences Industrial Development
Programme Manager; Mary Beth Thomas, Senior Director, Centers
of Innovation Operations; and Gwyn F Riddick, Regional Director,
Piedmont Triad Office
North Carolina Department of Commerce
Meeting with Dr John W Hardin, Acting Executive Director,
North Carolina Board of Science and Technology and John Ujvari,
SBIR specialist at the NC Small Business and Technology Development
Center
Research Triangle Park Foundation
Meeting with Kevin Johnson, Vice President of Business
Development
BOSTON
THURSDAY 24 JULY 2008
Boston University Technology Development Office
Meeting with Ashley Stevens, Director, Office of
Technology Transfer
Meeting with Vinit Nijhawan, entrepreneur and venture
capitalist
Statehouse
Meeting with Senate President Murray and Senator
Hart
Massachusetts Technology Transfer Center
Meeting with Dr Abi Barrow, Director
Harvard Business School
Meeting with John Quelch Lincoln Filene Professor
of Business Administration
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Professor Eric von Hippel, Head of the Innovation
and Entrepreneurship Group
FRIDAY 25 JULY 2008
Deshpande Center, MIT
Meeting with Leon Sandler, Executive Director
K&L Gates
Working lunch with K&L staff
MIT media lab
Meeting with Steven Whittaker, Research affiliate
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