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Event: Business Opportunities in Spain with a spotlight on Murcia

Kinetic Cubed will be running this event on the 11th November 2010 at Baker Tilly, Manchester followed by a cocktail reception at Manchester Town Hall.

Business Seminar from 4.15pm and Evening Reception from 6pm (8pm close)

For further information or to request an invite please contact Gaynor Campbell on gcampbell@kinetic3.co.uk or Mob: 07868 758298

Advanced Engineering in Russia

Kinetic Cubed, a specialist provider of expertise on high growth markets, including Russia will be speaking about opportunities in the Russian Aerospace market for UK companies at AeroEngineering 2010 at the NEC. For further information please see. http://www.aeroconf.com/sbs/128/

Opportunities in Global Markets

Kinetic Cubed has produced a report on the International Tradable Economy for the UK’s Insight East, which is a regional organisation in the East of England. Insight East provides accurate data and authoritative analysis on the important trends and issues facing the region. The international team, led by Mark Beresford, one of Kinetic Cubed’s co-founders and directors, comprised emerging markets and service sector specialists.

Glenn Athey, Director of Insight East said. “The report shows that the East of England punches above its weight compared to the rest of the UK in terms of how we compete internationally. But, because of the recession and the historically weak dollar, companies here need to sharpen their competitive edge to trade in still-significant European markets and the US. They need to punch harder and increase their reach further to gain new deals and keep the existing ones.”

For a copy of the report please go to: http://www.insighteast.org.uk

International Knowledge Sourcing for Innovation

Kinetic Cubed is featured as a case study in a high profile report published by Nesta. Drawing knowledge from external sources in the UK, or internationally, has become increasingly important to small and medium-sized firms (SMEs). SMEs cannot generate all they need to know to develop new products and processes within their own companies and they need to look elsewhere for new ideas and expertise. This practice is known as knowledge sourcing.

This report provides a detailed review of patterns of knowledge sourcing and the key factors influencing these patterns, particularly from a small business perspective. Kinetic Cubed is a niche provider of internationalisation consultancy, based in the Northwest of England, but with a global presence through innovative partnerships in Europe, the US and Asia. It practices international knowledge sourcing and uses this as a source of competitive advantage to better service its international client base.

To find out more, please go to:

http://www.nesta.org.uk/publications/reports/assets/features/sourcing_knowledge_for_innovation

European Business Summit in Brussels

Mark Beresford, Kinetic Cubed’s Europe specialist, was recently invited to participate in the European Business Summit in Brussels by the Brussels Enterprise Agency. The EBS is Europe’s key platform for business leaders and decision makers to debate how to build a more competitive and sustainable European Union. Annually the EBS attracts 2500 participants including CEOs and Top Executives, (Prime) Ministers, European Commissioners and media.

The summit focused on topics such as economic recovery, financial regulation, trade for growth, the place of Europe in the world, new skills for new jobs, climate change and energy, innovation, clean-tech, Europe’s digital agenda and the future shape of the EU’s socio-economic model.

To see the summit highlights, go to http://www.ebsummit.eu/

Global India Business Meeting in Madrid

Tony Aggarwal, Kinetic Cubed’s India specialist met a number of top Indian business leaders as part of the recent Global India Business Meeting in Madrid, Spain. The event which took place on 21^st and 22^nd June provided Kinetic Cubed with an opportunity to further develop its market leading connections and networks with Indian corporates and decision makers. In particular, it provided Tony with an opportunity to discuss international expansion plans into Europe with Indian corporate at senior level.

For further information, please see: http://www.horasis.org/event_india_2010.php

Clean Technology and Chemicals in France

The City region of Lyon in France has one of the most sophisticated research bases and supply chains in Europe in the clean technology areas. Kinetic Cubed has been working with the City's inward investment agency, Aderly, to identify UK companies in the sector that are potentially interested in expanding into Europe. The work has focused on the northern parts of the UK and has involved high value added, lead generation activities in the North West and North East of England.

Aderly has just made its third business development trip to the UK to meet some of the exciting companies that Kinetic Cubed's team have uncovered. The French cluster Axelera is holding its annual international event on September 9th 2010 to showcase its capacity and capability and a number of UK firms with an interest in France identified by Kinetic Cubed will participate. Click here for more info.

Innovation Update

The North West Development Agency's Innovation Voucher Scheme (for more information go to: www.nwdabusinessfinance.co.uk/innovationvouchers) after almost two successful years is coming to an end as a result of the scaling back of funding from the NWDA.

This scheme has allowed Kinetic Cubed, as one of the pre-selected knowledge providers, to help over 20 different companies to develop their business to look at new business models, markets and strategy. The scheme was designed to raise the innovation eco-system of the North West by awarding a voucher of between £3000 and £7000 to SME's in the region to connect with the knowledge base to work on an innovation led project.

If you would like to find out more about the scheme then please email Gaynor Campbell at gcampbell@kinetic3.co.uk.

Brussels

Kinetic Cubed, a resident company of InfoLab21, has signed a deal with the Invest in Brussels agency to help attract inward investment from the UK into the Brussels City region.

The deal further increases the InfoLab21 and Northwest based company's presence in Europe and represents a significant new business opportunity to work intensively with Invest in Brussels to attract UK based ICT companies and organisations looking to expand into the Brussels and European market.

Director Mark Beresford highlights three key reasons why UK ICT companies should consider Brussels as a cost effective location to base their operations from:

Brussels is home to many major global blue chip corporations and also provides a relatively low cost gateway to new business opportunities in the wider Benelux and European markets
Brussels is unique in assembling many of the key economic and political decision makers from important institutions such as the EU, NATO, NGOs, and think tanks
Brussels has a track record of being one of the most innovative places in Europe to do business. Sectors such as Professional and Financial Services, ICT, Healthcare / Bio and Energy and Environment are highly developed

Mark says; "The ICT sector is extremely dynamic in Brussels, generating about one-third of Belgium's global ICT activities. This upward trend is bolstered by a series of favourable elements such as: a strong demand in the local market, a close collaboration between businesses and academia, a high concentration of ICT activities in a small area and the complete, proactive support of regional authorities."

Examples of ICT companies that have taken advantage of the business opportunities that Brussels can provide include:

An ICT consultancy serving major corporations with international communications networks
A company that develops and markets software tools that help organisations to reduce costs, save time and successfully manage their IT networks from beginning to end
A global company providing customised enterprise solutions with expertise in private networks, global Tier-1 Internet backbone and related ICT solutions to enterprises worldwide
A major player in the provision of threat detection and screening technologies for Military, Transportation, Homeland Security and Resilience applications

In addition, Invest in Brussels can provide UK ICT companies and organisations that have the intention to set up in the city with incubator facilities for the first three months, help with business and financial plans, risk assessments, marketing and services support, and will provide the new venture with an important platform for launching the business. For more info click here.

For further information on how Kinetic Cubed can help you set up in Brussels, please call Bill Jones on 07788 917934 or email bjones@kinetic3.co.uk.