Innovation investment conference cancelled

The Invest in Innovation conference scheduled for November 16th 2005 has had to be cancelled because of lack of interest. Anyone who had something they very much wanted to say is invited to say it in the magazine instead. The conference was intended to bring leading engineers and physicists together with those who could help turn ideas into successful businesses Britain abounds with clever engineers and physicists, whose brilliant ideas have too often, in the past, not resulted in UK employment. The Engineering Physics Group of the Institute of Physics was therefore sponsoring a conference to help professional scientists and engineers to get together with business and finance experts, with the intention of assisting the development of profitable enterprises. It was based on the knowledge that science and engineering Innovations can generate profitable businesses and resulting employment, but often require amounts of risk capital to bring the ideas to market, which can be sometimes hard to find. The Physics & Engineering Industries Conference for Innovation, Investment, Growth and Finance, (P & EI 2005 for short) was to have been held in Birmingham's Aston Science Park on Wednesday November 16th. The conference programme included presentations by Professor Chris Hendry of the Cass Business School in the City of London, as well as speakers from venture capital, business angel and funding agencies as well as technical presentations. Eureka's group technical editor, Tom Shelley, was also going to contribute and explain why invention and innovation is the UK's greatest asset and its best hope for continued future prosperity. Anyone who had someting they wanted to say or who wants another event to be held is invited to write to TShelley@Findlay.co.uk