Eastern Promise - The Podcast

Episode 113: A New Model for Lab Space, with Laura Grimwood & Adam Pead

This Week: Mike Rigby visits Co-Labs by Journey and meets Laura Grimwood, along with Adam Pead of Inuti, to look at a fresh new model for delivering lab space for scientific startups.  Laura encountered this model - where high-quality lab space is provided without the unnecessary fripperies that can drive up costs - in the USA and, on finding nothing like it in the UK, resolved to bring the model back to Britain.
And, dear listener, she did.
Laura and Adam, from lab property specialists Inuti, describe the steps taken to bring this 14,700 square feet of affordable startup space across the Pond, and describe just what makes this model so competitive.   
To find out more, visit: https://journeyre.io/spaces/colabs-niab-cambridge/
You can contact Eastern Promise at: podcast@easternpromise.org.uk.
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Episode 112: Prof. David Maguire, Vice-Chancellor, University of East Anglia

This week: We begin our new six-week run of episodes with a very special guest: Professor David Maguire, Vice Chancellor of the University of East Anglia (UEA).  I chat with David about the UEA's huge breadth of offer, its peerless position as an engine of sustainable economic growth and David's own varied career, how a new Vice-Chancellor goes about bringing change to the institution they lead.
We also chat about David's time as Principal of the Dyson Institute, and what we can learn from that unique facility.  
We also make mention of the Civic UEA team (to declare an interest, I produce their podcast) and you can click here to read their recent excellent report, 'Unlocking Norfolk's Potential'.     
To contact Eastern Promise, email podcast@easternpromise.org.uk or visit easternpromise.org.uk.
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Episode 111: The Cambridge-Manchester Partnership - As Seen From Manchester

This Week: At the inaugural Innovate Cambridge summit in 2023, a partnership between Innovate Cambridge and the University of Manchester was unveiled.  Now, with the 2024 Innovate Cambridge summit less than a week away, Eastern Promise is on the ground in Manchester, talking to Lou Cordwell OBE and John Holden of the University of Manchester.
Lou and John will be sharing their view of the opportunities and potential contained within this collaboration.  They'll also demonstrate that the two cities' differences on paper are dwarfed by the commonalities.  It's a must-listen if you want tot understand the scope and the potential bound within this project, and special thanks must go to: Lou & John, Lisa Gledhill & Kelly Burnham for all their help with logistics; to Kathryn Chapman, Executive Director of Innovate Cambridge for her help and the guest appearance; and to Cambridge Ahead CEO Dan Thorp, and Milner Therapeutics Institute and Connect:Health-Tech's Paula Rogers-Brown for assisting with my preparations and their general encouragement. 
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Episode 110: Transforming Ophthalmology through 3D Printing

This Week: Your host Mike Rigby chats with University of East Anglia academic, Dr Aram Saeed, about the revolution in ophthalmology that will use 3D printing to update treamtents dating back to WWII pilots and generic 'one-size-fits-all' ocular implants with bespoke, made-to-measure lenses.   
To find out more about Eastern Promise and listen to more episodes, visit: https://easternpromise.org.uk, or contact us at podcast@easternpromise.org.uk.  
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CROWDSOURCERY! What I did on my holidays...

We take a listen to your summertime activities across the mighty East of England, especially from those heading from Cambridgeshire to the Norfolk & Suffolk Coast.  Packed with our trademark...levity(?) if not brevity, take a listen to what our listeners have been doing across the region this Summer!  And make sure you listen all the way through for a special message.
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Episode 109: The Cambridge Acorn Project

This Week: Your host Mike Rigby drops in on the Cambridge Acorn Project.
Now in its tenth anniversary year, the Cambridge Acorn Project works to provide meaningful, individual support to children and families who have lived through adverse experiences, including abuse, and financial hardship. It’s hard to understate the crucial importance of their work, helping disadvantaged families heal and grow post-trauma.  Mike Rigby joins Matt Edge, Hannah Chapman and Hannah Golding to find out more. 
For more information on the Cambridge Acorn Project click here.
And why not also visit the Eastern Promise website too?  
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Episode 108: Groundwork East & 'Rediscovering the River Colne'

This Week: We're off for our first trip to Hertfordshire, in the company of region-wide environmental charity, Groundwork East, to find out more about their role on the Watford Borough Council project, 'Rediscovering the River Colne'.  
We also hear from Councillor Ian Stotesbury, Cabinet Member for Transport & Sustainability at the Council, who has been tasked by Watford's elected Mayor with delivering the project for people, place and planet.
Click here to find out more about Groundwork East, and here to find out more about the Rediscovering the River Colne'.  For Watford Borough Council, click here.
To find out more about Eastern Promise and listen to more episodes, visit: https://easternpromise.org.uk.  
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Episode 107: Cambridge Tech Week in Review!

This Week:  Join us for a look back at days 1 & 5 of Cambridge Tech Week, a special message from George Freeman MP, a chat with Form the Future CIC's Kath Austin and more.  Well, where else would we be?! 
PLUS - that's not all at all!  We have a Public Service Announcement about Norfolk County Council's Market Towns Conference on 1st October 2024 at Swaffham Assembly Rooms - more details can be found here.  Register for your place by emailing: econdev@norfolk.gov.uk.  
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Episode 106: Commercialisation & the Triple Chasm model

This Week: We're back from our Summer break with a bang, as a panel of the East of England's top experts in commercialising innovation discuss the potential, the pitfalls and the possibilities, all through the prism of the Triple Chasm model, co-developed by our first guest, Uday Phadke.  
Kathryn Chapman has been a guide and mentor to many disrupters seeking to cross the three chasms to successful commercialisation in her time as Director of Science and Innovation at the Babraham Research Campus (since the recording, Kathryn has moved to become full-time Executive Director of Innovate Cambridge).  
James Fry, meanwhile, leads on life sciences for full-service law firm and 'friends of the show', Mills & Reeve.  There truly could not be a better panel.    
To find out more about Triple Chasm and its groundbreaking model, click here, or go to the Babraham Research Campus website here.
To find out more about Eastern Promise and listen to more episodes, visit: https://easternpromise.org.uk.   
Eastern Promise is proud to be supported by Mills & Reeve.     

Previewing Cambridge Tech Week 2024!

In this very special edition of the Eastern Promise podcast, your host Mike Rigby looks ahead to Cambridge Tech Week (9-13 September 2024) with help from: Chair of the CTW Steering Committee, Chris Bruce; University of East Anglia Pro Vice-Chancellor Nicola Hancock; Mills & Reeve's investment guru Zickie Lim; and CEO of Form The Future CIC, Anne Bailey.  
This superb panel (and Mike) take you through each action-packed day, laying out who's who and what's where.  You better be quick if you want to join the party, 'coz tickets are going fast!  Find out more at https://cambridgetechweek.co.uk/ 
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