Conference will promote investment in innovation

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 is 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 is 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) will be held in the Faraday Building in Birmingham's Aston Science Park on Wednesday November 16th. The Science Park is located in the heart of the city on a 65 acre campus which it shares with its neighbour and partner Aston University, The conference programme will include 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, will also contribute and explain why invention and innovation is the UK's greatest asset and its best hope for continued future prosperity. For more information see the October 2005 edition of Eureka and Physics and Engineering Conference Email Kogan Ventures.TS