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I attended a talk given by Lord Digby Jones in Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire yesterday on "Growth through Innovation".  His main message was that we need to be investing more and more in R&D and Innovation as Asia is now catching us up as an economy and their labour costs are still far cheaper than ours.  If we are not careful they won't need our innovations, they will have come up with their own!!  He also said that people in the Far East have not benefitted from free education for at least 11 years - they have had to fight and pay for their

As an avid live music fan I was interested to hear that today would have been Les Paul's 96th birthday - some of you may not know who Les Paul was but in a house which has six guitars, Les Paul's name comes up frequently!

Who was he?  An Innovator of music and the Inventor of the world's most popular solid body electric guitar - "The Gibson Les Paul".  Paul McCartney, Eric Clapton and Keith Richards are just a few fans of the Gibson Les Paul.

Sometimes when it comes to looking for new product ideas we should be looking to take advantage of funding opportunities to see whether we can adapt our existing products, processes and ideas for new markets.

The Technology Strategy Board has just announced that it is looking to invest £18million over four years into setting up five sites across the UK which wil show how asisted living technologies and services can be used to promote well-being and provide top quality health and care, enabling people to live independently.

We had a fantastic night at the Sentinel Business Awards in Stoke on Trent last night.

The BIC sponsors the Innovation Award and we were elated that one of our clients Haughton Design Ltd won that award.  The BIC has been working with Haughton Design Ltd for over ten years and thoroughly deserve the award.  Haughton Design are engineering and mechanical design consultants and provide 2D or 3D CAD services.