Innovation in Manufacturing & Engineering programme

Large and small businesses working together to develop leadership and innovation skills

Innovation in Manufacturing and Engineering is a seven-month programme specifically designed for small and medium-sized businesses who have significant engineering and/or manufacturing capability, who want to develop their leadership and innovation skills by working with world-class organisations and a leading university.

This programme will help manufacturing and engineering businesses develop their leadership, technical and innovation skills, boost productivity and create prosperous local communities within the North West. Direct engagement with large, world-class organisations such as BAE Systems and Siemens and wrap-around skills training from Lancaster University Management School and Lancaster University Engineering Department will help a network of SMEs be more competitive in the global economy.

The benefits

This innovative programme integrates active teaching with practice, regularly encouraging participants to relate what they are learning to their own situations. It brings together a group of your peers — like-minded innovative SMEs — in a safe environment where there are high levels of trust. This allows you to openly share your concerns about the future. Through this programme, you are able to adopt a set of business tools. Lancaster University Management School, which typically ranks in the global top 100 business schools, will provide you with an insight into cutting edge practices allowing you to drive performance and success.

Highlights

  • A seven-month programme involving no more than two days per month working on your business, not in your business
  • BAE Systems and Siemens sharing best practice and technology insights with you around their innovation culture
  • Workshops with the Lancaster University Engineering Department on state-of-the-art equipment
  • Wrap-around support from Lancaster University Management School drawing on their world-class leadership and innovation programmes to form a learning network
  • Visits to best-in-class organisations around the region

Download our IME brochure for more details.

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Cost

This programme has received co-investment from the UK Commission for Employment and Skills through the UK Futures Programme. The subsidised cost per delegate is £1,500.