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NOTTINGHAM’S new greentech incubator unit has signed an agreement with the Greentech Business Network to run seminars to help early stage low-carbon companies get up to speed in vital areas of business expertise.
The half-day workshops will begin in early 2012 at the Nottingham Cleantech Centre, which has been founded by the former BioCity incubation manager Dr Nick Gostick and entrepreneur Bob Pynegar. The 13,000ft centre is being developed in existing office space in St Peter’s Street, Radford, handily close to the University of Nottingham Innovation Park along Triumph Road.
The two partners have formed a new company called Inntropy to run the centre from the building’s ground floor. The rest of the building is currently being refurbished into a variety of spaces including hot desks, workshops and small office suites. Refurbishment should be complete next summer.
In the meantime, Inntropy has signed a formal agreement with the Nottinghamshire Greentech Business Network to run half-day seminars for early stage greentech companies. These seminars, covering subjects such as sales and marketing, IP and the business benefits of social networking sites, have grown out of the Enviro-Entrepreneur bootcamp that was organised by Dr Gostick at BioCity in November. “We’ve agreed to run a series of training seminars aimed at early stage companies in the cleantech sector,” said Dr Gostick. “These have really developed out of the bootcamp where we saw that that there are a lot of new businesses which want support to get off the ground. We’ll be starting them early next year.” Mr Gostick said that the seminars would be run on a subsidised basis, reducing the cost for attendees.
Neil Horsley, of the Greentech Business Network, said: “The aim of the GreenTech Business Network has always been to support developing companies working in the low carbon sector. We are therefore really pleased to announce that we have signed an agreement with the Nottingham Cleantech Centre to offer a range of training workshops geared to the needs of start up or recently established low carbon companies. In our view the combination of dedicated business accommodation and practical training sessions, geared to the needs of cleantech companies, is a completely unique offer within the UK.”
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