Lincolnshire Open Research Innovation Centre LORIC Working With

Lincolnshire Open Research & Innovation Centre (LORIC): Working With Academia Lincolnshire Compact Good Practice Event Chris Bridle Ph. D CPsychol LORIC Project Manager 08. 06. 18

BGU & Lincolnshire Business • Long established relationship with Lincolnshire community • University strategy (2014): enhance research, strengthen and grow external partnerships • Support the aims and objectives of the GLLEP • Deepen our connection between BGU research and business

What will LORIC do? • Promote and enable data-driven innovation for Lincolnshire SMEs • LORIC activities will include: • Knowledge sharing events and seminars • One to one innovation projects – identify market gaps, create new products, design new services, etc. • Translate BGU research into innovations • Provide a physical centre for collaboration

Who are we? • Core team: Core Team BGU Business LORIC • • Consultancies Chris Bridle (Project Manager) Laura Spencer (Co-ordinator) Katya Bozukova (Open Data RF) + Data Analyst • Consultancies: • The Data Place; Social Change UK • BGU Business: • BGU Expertise Business Inspiration; BGU Futures • BGU Expertise: • Applied research; Research translation

Examples of Our Initial Work • Better understanding of localities and sociodemographics to inform event planning • Digitisation of data and protocol for data sharing • Enabling 3 rd sector to evidence cost-saving / impact of their work

LORIC Operation BGU Researchers LORIC Data-Driven Innovation Greater Lincolnshire SMEs LORIC is a conduit linking Greater Lincolnshire SMEs to BGU Researchers, and vice versa, in order to promote and enable data-driven innovation

Thank you for listening. Any questions, now or later? Chris Bridle Ph. D CPsychol Lincolnshire Open Research & Innovation Centre Bishop Grosseteste University c. bridle@bishopg. ac. uk