DR Jo Berry admits she struggles to say no to interesting opportunities. It's an approach that's taken her from apartheid South Africa to Davos, the pit lane and the music industry. John Hill catches up with Newcastle University Business School's director of engagement.Read
HOW quickly can you develop a business? While many were getting well-earned rest after a hard week’s work, a group of would-be entrepreneurs were at Newcastle University Business School trying to put together the foundation of a start-up in a single weekend.Read
PEOPLE with a hunger for a new challenge will be gathering at Newcastle University Business School from Friday for the first Startup Weekend to be staged in the North East.Read
AS a veteran of four recessions, which he studied as both an academic and from inside the Treasury, Lord Burns knows a thing or two about economic crises.Read
COULD you create a rough version of a working business in 54 hours? John Hill finds out about the Newcastle leg of Startup Weekend's continuing world tour, and learns a little about what makes a "lean startup".Read
OPENING a business sounds as scary and complicated as building an iPad. It looks all shiny and cool from the outside, but what do all those little parts do, and how do you put them together without blowing up the living room?Read
ONE of the region’s most successful entrepreneurs hopes to inspire others to follow in his footsteps as the 10th David Goldman visiting professor of innovation and enterprise.Read
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