SIMposium - I'm an entrepreneur - get me into there!
Annual conference with speakers on a theme - this year Entrepreneurship
This year's SIMposium was on the subject of Entrepreneurship, as the title above demonstrates.
To an audience of some 40 people, including Apprentices, Scholars, Freemen and Liverymen a number of speakers, including Senior Warden of the Guild of Entrepreneurs and Executive Director of the Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship covered many aspects of this important subject.
Topics covered included what it takes to start one's own business, and a number of the technical aspects including Intellectual Property, Business Plans, and Exit Strategies. The day also included several case histories of successful start ups, including two from our own members, Freeman Ruth Amos and Freeman James Popper.
Feedback from members of the audience, after the event, was very positive, from young and old!
There was plenty of time allowed for members and guest speakers to interact throughout the day and we can also report, of two potentially new business relationships formed amongst members present!
A copy of most of the presentations can be found below.
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“I strongly support the ethos of the Company and the work they do to encourage instrument makers of the future, particularly through their mentoring programme, awards and support of schemes like the Arkwright scholarships. We all remember the person or scheme that played a pivotal role in us choosing instrument making, in one of its many forms, as a career path. Paying this forward to the next generation is an obligation we should embrace joyfully and wholeheartedly.”
Head of Engineering, Centre for Advanced Instrumentation, Durham University
