York & North Yorkshire businesses are invited to free ‘Innovate to grow’ events

York St John University, York & North Yorkshire Growth Hub and the Made Smarter programme have partnered together to deliver a programme of free ‘Innovate to Grow’ events to be held at five leading tourism and business innovation venues across North Yorkshire.

Designed to appeal to medium and larger sized businesses based in York and North Yorkshire, the event programme starts on 9 May at Eden Camp in Malton and will be running until 23 May, with the last event at Scarborough Spa.

Other iconic venues include a train ride on the North York Moors Railway from Pickering, C4Di, the former prison in Northallerton which is now home to various tech companies, and Co-Lab, a workspace for digital, tech and creative businesses in Harrogate.

Funded by Innovate UK, the events will provide opportunities for networking to collaborate and share ideas for innovation and growth with other local businesses.

Attendees will also be able to hear about the business support and funding available to them in their area from representatives from York St John University who specialise in knowledge transfer between business and education, York & North Yorkshire Growth Hub and the Made Smarter programme.

Speaking of the events series, Michael Wilson, Knowledge Transfer Manager at York St John University said: “We are delighted to be running this series of free events for businesses across York & North Yorkshire.

“Working in partnership with York & North Yorkshire Growth Hub and Made Smarter, we look forward to seeing businesses form connections and to giving them useful information about the business support and funding that is available, whilst they enjoy some of the region’s most interesting venues.”

By Mark Adair – Correspondent, Bdaily