Wednesday, 23 January 2013

The annual UK Core Cities outlook report for 2013...

Every year Centre for Cities produce an update on the economic condition of UK cities outside London...  

Tuesday, 25 September 2012

Business Leaders for Michigan: A competitive review of Logistics and Supply Chain capabilities in Michigan...

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Global Innovation Partners worked with two partnering organizations to conduct a competitive review of Logistics and Supply Chain capabilities in Michigan.  The study was conducted for Business Leaders for Michigan in cooperation with the Michigan Economic Development Corporation and other economic development groups.  Gene DePrez, US Partner for Global Innovation Partners co-led the project with Adam Wasserman for Global Logistics Development Partners and Bob Farley of Greyhill Partners. Business Leaders for Michigan issued this news release and executive summary.  

Wednesday, 12 September 2012

Innovate Kelowna: A focus on technology sector economic development in Kelowna, British Columbia...


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Working closely with our client we've designed and built a new website aimed at UK Digital Technology sector companies and start-ups who are interested in foreign direct investment (FDI) or emigrating to Kelowna, Canada.  
Kelowna is a hotbed of start-up activity and has developed an extensive portfolio of business support for growing technology business who set up offices in the city.
With access to wilderness and countryside similar to that of living in a UK national park, twinned with easy access to air travel across North America and international destinations directly from Kelowna airport, the city is proving to be a compelling offer to those who value quality of life.
The new site can be found here: http://technologycanada.biz/ 


Thursday, 6 September 2012

Event: Growth and Export Opportunities for UK Tech businesses in Canada...

In partnership with the Canadian High Commission in London, (UK) we're hosting an event on the 27th September 2012 for UK businesses looking to grow into Canada. 

If you are interested in expanding your business, creating new international trade partnerships, co-production and co-development opportunities, investment and finance partnerships, supply chain provision or are looking for market awareness and opportunities on the West Coast of Canada and North America 

This is an opportunity to hear about the dynamics of the technology sectors in British Columbia (BC) including information on business tax and the incentive landscape as well as immigration information, recruitment and skills availability and choosing a suitable location in BC for your growing business. 

Register here: http://innovatekelowna.eventbrite.com

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Wednesday, 5 September 2012

The London 2012 Olympics...

We attended the Cycling and Athletics and had two fantastic days. Such an amazing atmosphere at both events and throughout the Olympic park.
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Monday, 3 September 2012

Vancouver comes to London 2012 #VancouverBiz2012...

Based out of the newly refurbished Canada House in Trafalger Square, London we hosted leading companies from from the Vancouver and UK Digital, Creative and Cleantech sectors for a weekend of international business, collaboration and partnership development...

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A hectic weekend begins...

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Digital and Creative panel briefing and prep...

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Cleantech panel prep with two of the UK contributors: L-R: JP Mercieca VEC, Michael Liebreich, Bloomberg New Energy Finance; Richard Miller, Technology Strategy Board.

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 The opening reception...

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Full house at the panel sessions on the Saturday...

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We even had both the Mens and Womens rowing teams drop by after winning medals...


Wednesday, 18 July 2012

Vancouver comes to London. Two events coming up in London for the Olympics...

Vancouver comes to London : One Clean Tech Panel and one Creative and Digital Panel. Registration details on the docs below...

Monday, 2 April 2012

We're looking for UK based digital tech companies looking to expand into the Canadian and USA markets...


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Global Innovation Partners along with our Canadian clients are looking for UK companies to attend the Metabridge in Kelowna Canada in June.  

We are looking for senior UK based entrepreneurs and CEO’s who work in the digital and online sectors and who are now ready to expand their business activity into the North American markets.

Last year we had 14 businesses including 2 from the UK along with the financial times alongside 20 investors, senior tech types and business owners from Silicon Valley.

Notably we had Alison Rosenthal (employee number 25 of Facebook), who’d just exited as Head of Mobile. We also had Sam Odio the guy responsible for photo recognition software who sold it to Facebook. He spoke about how to build and sell your business and IP to a Silicon Valley giant and come out on top.

There were also many others there from the likes of investment houses such as C100 and Goldman Sachs as well as software and senior internet business people from Silicon Valley from Disney, HP, Microsoft, Xomo; all willing to pass their knowledge and contacts on to attending delegates.

The event is designed to help digital and internet businesses expand and grow into the USA and Canadian markets. In total, we’re looking to identify around 5-10 businesses from the UK over the next few weeks who will be there alongside 2 UK VIP tech industry speakers. (Details being confirmed)

See more at the website here: http://www.metabridge.ca/annual-retreat/june-2012/2012-vips/ and here http://globalinnovationpartners.posterous.com/andy-curtis-metabridge
and here http://globalinnovationpartners.posterous.com/a-great-piece-from-the-financial-times-25th-j
If you need any further details feel free to drop us an email to andy@globalinnovationpartners.com


Monday, 12 March 2012

Andy will be speaking at the IEDC Spring Conference in St Louis, Missouri


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Andy is speaking on Tuesday 12th June at 11am - 12:30pm at the "Targeting the Digital Arts: Media, Gaming and Entertainment Industries" session.
For more information see the IEDC conference website: http://www.iedconline.org/DrivingInnovation/index.html

Tuesday, 11 October 2011

Managing Partner Gene Deprez awarded the 2011 IEDC Chairmans award for Excellence in Economic Development...


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The award was presented by the International Economic Development Council Chair, Dennis Coleman during the Recognition Dinner held at IEDC's Annual Conference Sept 2011 in Charlotte, North Carolina.  
The dinner attracted a record crowd of participants of around 500 people, including Matt Erskine the USA Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Economic Development and Chief Operating Officer of the US Economic Development Administration.

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In accepting the award Gene talked about the importance of relationships developed in his many years of involvement in IEDC and the economic development profession and acknowledged key people among the audience who were at the beginning of his career and several who are important recent colleagues.

You can see more info on IEDC here: http://www.iedconline.org



Friday, 2 September 2011

Gene DePrez and Andy Curtis will be speaking at the IEDC Annual Conference in Charlotte, North Carolina...


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We're both speaking on the 20th September...
Gene is speaking at the "Reorganizing the Regions for the New Normal" session. 10:30am - 12:30pm
Andy is speaking at the "Developing Successful International Partnerships" session. 2:15 - 2:45pm
For more information see the IEDC conference website: http://www.iedconline.org/annualconference

Friday, 5 August 2011

The Thinking Digital Conference...


The Thinking Digital Conference in 90 Seconds from Thinking Digital on Vimeo.


We're huge advocates of The Thinking Digital Conference and also the organising team at Codeworks and we've been attending every year since the very first event. This year I was in the audience and Gene watched online from New Jersey, both watching live and able to exchange views and comments via twitter and email... 


The exchange of best practice and the sharing in knowledge of emerging technologies and business sectors makes this is one of the best conferences in the world for many; especially economic developers.