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Ever wanted to use the experience built up over a lifetime in business management to make a difference?   Ever thought of setting up in business for yourself?  Then think about attending the University of York Management School’s one day course entitled ‘How to Start and Run a Profitable Consulting Business’ to be held on 11 January 2010 in Heslington Hall on the York University campus.

Yorkshire Forward has announced a new business plan which sets out how the Development Agency is responding to the challenges the region faces from the economic downturn and how it is working to ensure that the regional economy is able to respond quickly to the upturn when it comes.Yorkshire Forward has announced a new business plan which sets out how the Development Agency is responding to the challenges the region faces from the economic downturn and how it is working to ensure that the regional economy is able to respond quickly to the upturn when it comes.

The Centres of Industrial Collaboration (CICs) can assist companies working in the automotive industry, with expertise ranging from design optimisation of high performance structures, novel polymer materials to replace metals, precision engineering of automotive components, advanced coatings, through to wireless sensor technology.

Yorkshire Forward has invested £2.2 million in 65 Fellowships across Yorkshire and Humber through the Yorkshire Enterprise Fellowship Programme designed to assist cutting edge innovation in the region by helping university researchers create businesses based on their research.

A £6 million initiative that will ensure that the resources and expertise of the higher education (HE) sector in Yorkshire and Humber help counter the impact of the economic challenges facing individuals and employers has been announced today.

A grant from Yorkshire Forward has helped a bright idea born within a university to achieve commercial success.

Yorkshire & Humber is a region of economic opportunity, but still there are people who are unemployed and unlikely to find work without intervention. Find out what Yorkshire Forward is doing to positively affect employment levels in Yorkshire & Humber.

With one of Europe’s largest concentrations of universities, producing 10% of the UK’s graduates and with R&D investment at 12% above the European average, we can be justifiably proud of the region’s universities.

Yorkshire Forward works with regional and national partners to ensure that the right people end up in the right job—helping to retain valuable skills here in Yorkshire & Humber.