Teesside University offers help to businesses

Teesside University is offering help to businesses as we exit lockdown. 

Over the past year, Teesside University’s Covid-19 support has helped 222 small and medium-sized businesses.

As we start to exit lockdown, the pro-vice-chancellor of the university encouraging more businesses to work with the university.

As part of a campaign, the university has published a report which provides a guide for businesses on how they can work with the University in the key areas of:

• Developing resilient leaders and managers for a volatile world
• Harnessing leading-edge research to give you a competitive edge
• Developing new products and markets
• Pivoting to digital business models
• Finding students and graduates with fresh ideas and skills for your business

The report also highlights the funded programmes and initiatives available for businesses in each of these areas.

Professor Jane Turner said: ‘Our goal is to help even more businesses in the year ahead, and the new facilities we have created on campus through lockdown will also be key to doing this.

‘Our new University Enterprise Zone on our Middlesbrough campus provides an exciting environment for new and growing companies, with co-working space, meeting rooms, start-up units and games studios. A ground-breaking Industrial Digitalisation Technology Centre will offer local businesses access to “serious play” facilities, including Internet of Things (IoT), big data analytics, modelling, simulation and sensor technology, to explore Industry 4.0 technologies and embark on development projects with academic support.

‘The National Horizons Centre reinforced its focus on excellence for the bioscience sector by being confirmed as a National Training Centre for Advanced Therapies. One of only three centres nationwide, it will expand UK expertise in advanced therapies and vaccine manufacturing.

‘It all adds up to a commitment on the part of Teesside University to make a lasting contribution to business growth as we emerge from the pandemic. Organisations who want to find out about the support on offer from Teesside University can contact the business team who will listen to their needs and identify the best combination of support we can provide.’

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