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.

To propose or join a project, join us for cutting-edge research, expertise and collaboration opportunities.

Live activities

These activities focus on plase-based innovation and entrepreneurship:

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

Melanie Foster

Coastal communities like Hamble are rich in natural beauty, local pride and a hunger for sustainability. Yet for residents and visitors alike, truly ... Read more

23 days remaining

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Event - Clean Water South 3: Co-Production and Collaboration

Tom Rushby

Following the success of our first two gatherings, Clean Water South returns for its third event—this time, in partnership with The ... Read more

7 days remaining

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

Tom Rushby

Creating happy, healthy, and prosperous places requires bold ideas and innovative solutions. A place-based accelerator can play a key role in ... Read more

160 days remaining

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Platform members

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

Individual

view member profile "Kwame"

Kwame

Multimodal artist and Lecturer at Winchester School of Art

2 Connections

Dr Kwame Phillips is Senior Lecturer in Media Practices at the Winchester School of Art. He specialises in sensory media production, mixtape scholarship and critical media studies. Phillips’ work combines multi-modal and experimental methods, ...

Individual

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Brett Trafford

NED Intelligent Merchant Cities

15 Connections

5 interests

Brett has worked with Fawley Waterside to create the Intelligent Merchant City. He was part of the United Cities Group; a UN funded program of Global City collaborators and spoke of his work in Heidelberg to city leaders in 2019, with the then Deputy ...

Organisation

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Chris Cooper

CTO @ KnowNow Information

5 interests

KnowNow Information are AI & data innovation specialists. Helping customers make sense of data, tech & applying it to the world around them. Consultants, engineers & innovators. Specialising in AI & automation(using ...

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Place-based innovation and entrepreneurship