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Your Guide to Innovation in London Thames Gateway

The information in this guide is the product of partnership working between Gateway to London, the London Development Agency, University of East London and KnowledgeEast, which is itself a consortium of major education centres across the London Thames Gateway region.

London Development Agency (LDA)

The LDA focus on innovation is to support the long-term competitiveness of London's economy by embedding innovation and design practices as key drivers for growth across the business community.

The LDA's Innovation Programme is based around these core activities:

  • Raising awareness and providing innovation and design support for businesses to adopt
  • Facilitating and brokering access to the knowledge base and the business community in order for knowledge transfer to take place
  • Increasing the importance and understanding within business of protection and exploitation of intellectual property
  • Providing investment readiness and early stage finance to bring new products to market

www.lda.gov.uk

KnowledgeEast

This consortium of the eight higher education institutions in London Thames Gateway focuses on arts and design, creative industries, media and communication, environmental technologies, ICT, life sciences, and production and manufacturing.

The KnowledgeEast members are:  

  • Goldsmiths University of London
  • London Metropolitan University
  • Queen Mary University of London
  • Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication
  • Trinity Laban
  • Rose Bruford College
  • University of East London
  • University of Greenwich

KnowledgeEast is funded by the Higher Education Funding Council for England, the LDA, the Department for Communities and Local Government and the European Regional Development Fund.

www.knowledgeeast.com

University of East London (UEL)

At UEL, collaboration with business is a top priority, and the university can assist in providing businesses and organisations with solutions to their challenges and help in developing strategic thinking.

Outstanding research capabilities, coupled with the best in 'new thinking' have led UEL to be enlisted by many SMEs, public bodies, governments and multinational companies.

UEL are committed to doing all they can to ensure their expertise is made available to benefit business and society. Utilising the wealth of expertise, research capabilities and facilities at UEL, their solutions help companies to become more profitable, more competitive and more sustainable.

UEL is also part of the KnowledgeEast consortium.

www.uel.ac.uk