Technology businesses show Richard their latest innovations
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Richard recently visited Cranfield University Technology Park to learn more about the leading innovative businesses based there and the technical advancements being made in the region.
Screenetics, Prolite and Cabair – all based at the Technology Park’s Innovation Centre – gave tours of their offices and explanations of their latest innovations to the MP, who also took part in a flight simulation provided by Cabair. The three businesses exemplify the type of organisation that is attracted to Cranfield University, which aims to encourage and facilitate the development of knowledge-based businesses.
Richard was impressed with what he saw, commenting:
“The businesses I visited compete in very different sectors but they share the same passion for entrepreneurship. We need to nurture that passion to create the next generation of businesses and jobs, and Cranfield University Technology Park has a critical role to play in making that happen.”
August 8th, 2011 at 7:32am
Cranfield has come a very long way since I first visited the site in the late seventies – it is arguably the most outstanding institution in Bedfordshire.
However the majority of the counties citizens seem largely unaware of what it represents, many not even knowing it exists at all.
Would it possible for the Council to make a far bigger effort to publicise it’s existence and excellence as a motivator to students and taxpayers in this area?
Pride in one’s own locality is perhaps one important cornerstone in reducing the insidious and destructive encroachment of anti social behaviour on the well being of society.