Brexit: Time to take risk and back the little people driving big engineering projects?

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Brexit: Time to take risk and back the little people driving big engineering projects?

The 2018 Vice-Chancellor's Lecture is entitled Brexit Time: Time to take risk and back the little people driving the big engineering projects? and will be giving by Record Breaking Entrepreneur Richard Noble

Over 30 years Richard Noble and the teams have pioneered new industrial projects in air and land and one high technology ship which never got built .
There seems to be a common and pervasive long term difficulty with British culture –big projects only get financed with Establishment recognised contractors . 
But the Establishment contractors seldom take risk and so the innate British creativity and challenge is lost . Perhaps that didn’t matter during the safe EU years .

But the World has changed – using high performance non hierarchical companies and latest research technologies – the small companies can easily outperform the cumbersome and slow moving major contractors: all the time driving ahead with the usual fragile funding and accepting high levels of daily risk.

Extraordinary prototypes have been developed and proven – for instance the ThrustSSC car broke the sound barrier on land in 1997 a World first that has never even been equalled .

Coupled with this, British education is found wanting . The OECD Programme for international student assessment sees Britains global ranking for numeracy and literacy fall from 5th to 22nd place by 2016

Our failure to educate, to take risk and focus on the potential of the small companies is going to cost the next generation dear and with Brexit looming we need to take British manufacturing way past the current and embarrassing 8% of GDP

Time to recognise; time to change?

 

Places are free but should be booked in advance.

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Venue/Timing

Venue : Norcroft Centre, University of Bradford (Main Campus)

Type: Meeting

Start Date: Wednesday 03-10-2018 - 18:00

End date: Wednesday 03-10-2018 - 19:15

Capacity: 100

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a.j.gonzalez@bradford.ac.uk

01274233216

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