Place-based innovation and entrepreneurship

Supporting local startups with funding and resources, leveraging regional assets and fostering community collaboration.

Place-based innovation and entrepreneurship

At FTIH, our 'place-based innovation and entrepreneurship' focus is on:

Supporting startups and businesses: Offering incubators, accelerators and funding for ventures driven by local opportunities and resources.
Leveraging local assets: Utilising unique geographic characteristics, human capital and cultural heritage to drive economic growth.
Fostering collaboration: Engaging public, private and third-sector organisations to enhance community quality of life.

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Place-based innovation and entrepreneurship

Live activities

These activities focus on plase-based innovation and entrepreneurship:

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Challenge

Is it safe to swim in our river?

Botley Parish Council

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How can we better use data to support our high street?

Tom Rushby

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How can we best support place-based innovators and entrepreneurs?

Tom Rushby

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How might we make local food and food producers more visible and accessible in coastal communities?

Melanie Foster

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Offer

Mentoring on launching a startup, testing ideas and growing your venture.

Robert Woolf

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Challenge

How can we keep funding in our city/region and what are the benefits of doing so?

PCE Hubs

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Could Universities provide help fo VCSEs / smaller community organisations with succession planning?

Liz Allaway

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Poll

Did you learn something new this evening?

Felicity Farrell

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Challenge - Could Universities provide help fo VCSEs / smaller community organisations with succession planning?

Liz Allaway

Many small community organisations fail or fizzle out because they rely on 1-2 people to run and organise them, who are themselves volunteers. As...

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Poll - Did you learn something new this evening?

Felicity Farrell

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4 Ideas 2 Ratings

Challenge - How can we keep funding in our city/region and what are the benefits of doing so?

PCE Hubs

What can we learn from the world of doughnut economics and community wealth building, and how can we apply it locally? From intsitutional pledges to...

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Platform members

These members are interested in place-based innovation and entrepreneurship:

Organisation

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Time4Good

Kindness-powered micro volunteering

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Time4Good is the easiest way to do small but positive things for causes and communities. We’re a self-funded tech start-up. In October 2024 we launched a Proof of Concept to test a simple hypothesis: that Time4Good could recruit, retain and re ...

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Clint Styles

Professorial Fellow: Place based Innovation

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Clint’s senior level industrial, academic commercialisation, ‘place’ and strategic engagement experience allows him to bring different perspectives and operate at the nexus of technology, innovation, business and key sta ...

Individual

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Tom Rushby

Place-based innovator, co-founder of Love Your Place

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Senior Enterprise Fellow at the Future Towns Innovation Hub, University of Southampton. Fostering collaboration across sectors and facilitating place-based innovation. Co-founder of Love Your Place. I joined the Innovation Hub full-time in March 202 ...

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Place-based innovation and entrepreneurship