From the introduction:

IDEAS at Daresbury is a collaboration of Lancaster, Liverpool
and Manchester Business and Management Schools and ImaginationLancaster, a creative research lab at Lancaster University.

In March 2009, IDEAS at Daresbury was fortunate enough to be awarded funding by the European Regional Development Fund and Northwest Development Agency. This funding was used to deliver a 16 month programme of in-depth knowledge exchange, to drive innovation into 40 new technology businesses located at Daresbury Science and Innovation Campus (DSIC) and within its surrounding network.

The project team, collocated at DSIC, aimed to connect the participant new technology businesses into the wider knowledge networks of the partner institutions via a series of short, highly interactive workshop programmes, master classes, academic mentoring and student projects. The project also aimed to develop new knowledge exchange mechanisms, taking best practice from its delivery and expanding that learning into the wider region.
This booklet has been developed following delivery of the final workshop programme Beyond Networking. Initially, it provides details of the five workshops which comprised the programme, followed by an explanation of the process undertaken to individually analyse the participants’ networks, using data collected in the first workshop. The latter part of the booklet details the impact of the project, firstly in terms of the businesses who participated in the programme, and then from an academic research perspective