Brains and brawn come together Electronics Yorkshire event
A SEMINAR designed to promote joint working between the region’s businesses and universities is being hailed a success.
Around 80 delegates attended the Electronics Yorkshire organised event, which boasted speakers and respresentatives from academic institutions such as Hull University’s Engineering Innovation Institute, the Keyworth Institute at the University of Leeds, York University’s department of electronics, the University of Sheffield’s electrical and electronic engineering department, and the Materials and Engineering Research Institute at Sheffield Hallam University.
Managers of electronics firms learned how the region’s engineering and electronics institutions can offer facilities, support and expertise to help them develop their own products and services.
According to Allan Row, Electronics Yorkshire’s business development officer, pressure is now being applied to organised a programme of similar events.
“It was a huge success and feedback has been very positive,” he said.
“There was a lot of interest shown in holding future events that link the universities with the electronics industry in the region. This unique resource can only benefit the region’s electronics industry and provide even more opportunities for interaction between the business community and higher education.”
Electronics Yorkshire was also on hand to highlight its new web-based university resources project, which helps unravel each of the region’s universities’ structures and opens up the real and tangible benefits that are possible when industry and academia work in collaboration.
Electronics Yorkshire is a not-for-profit organisation supported by Yorkshire Forward, the Learning and Skills Council, EU ERDF and the Electronics KTN.
