Applied Knowledge Exchange

84% of SMEs in Scotland are engaging with higher education institutions, according to Universities UK. View the full report – Driving Economic Growth Universities play an important role in providing support to businesses through research and training. This is demonstrated by the breadth and range of industries with links to universities and the variety of [...]

Glasgow Caledonian University’s Applied Knowledge Exchange has published the Winter edition of Exchange magazine. The magazine focuses on recent business and knowledge transfer activity at GCU. This edition contains details of Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTPs) and our work with the energy sector, food and drink companies and our Business Academies with companies. For more information, [...]

Glasgow Caledonian University’s Applied Knowledge Exchange attended this week’s Offshore Europe conference in Aberdeen, meeting with partners including FMC Technologies and networking with the industry. During a first day session analysing the Operating Models for the Future, panelists including Oil and Gas UK Chief Executive Malcolm Webb said there were potentially large untapped ‘unconventional’ oil and [...]

In tough times, businesses and public sector organisations should take a more collaborative approach to working – that was the theme running through the Scottish Enterprise networking event this week in Glasgow. Keynote speaker Raymond O’Hare, Chairman of the Institute of Directors in Scotland, told delegates people can be sceptical when they hear the word [...]

Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU) has been granted £20,000 from the Scottish Government’s South Asia Development Award to deliver a programme in the management of diabetic foot disease in India that could prevent diabetes related limb amputations. GCU’s Strategic Business Development team – the Applied Knowledge Exchange  - facilitated a bid with experts from the School [...]

Here are the winners of the Scottish Leadership Awards 2010. Glasgow Caledonian University’s Applied Knowledge Exchange sponsored the Female Business Leader of the Year Award. For more information about how GCU works with business on education programmes, consultancy and research, and social innovation, give the Applied Knowledge Exchange a ring on 0141 331 3189.

Scottish businesses are being offered a new grant of £1,000 by the Scottish Government to take on an apprentice. The £4 million scheme will run until March 26 and is available for up to 4000 employers. The scheme is part of ScotAction, a scheme to help individuals and businesses through the recession and provide skills [...]

Glasgow Caledonian University is already gearing up for a busy year of new courses and seminars created especially for businesses. First up is a new Top Up MSc programme in Human Resource Management, aimed at HR and business professionals who already hold the postgraduate Diploma in HRM and would like to advance to MSc level. Launching [...]