Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham Business School

The Thinkubator Challenge is an award-winning initiative that brings together academics, students and local SMEs to collaborate on challenging business problems. As a high-profile showcase event it introduces local SMEs to the wide array of support available through Nottingham Business School (NBS) whilst providing students with real world business issues which demand insight and ingenuity to tackle. Read the full exemplar here.

Research from academics at Nottingham Business School (NBS) informs a broad swathe of development policies in the local region. One such initiative is BioCity, which provides innovative incubator support for the bio-technology sector. Expertise and support from NBS, coupled with effective collaboration with regional public and private partners, has developed a new path creation process which has achieved national influence. Read the full exemplar here.