Every business and organisation is trying to deal with the impacts of a changing workforce and economy and at a session at Leicester's Space Centre on Tuesday 7th December 2010 Trevor Baylis, inventor of the wind up radio, seeks to inspire East Midland's transport companies to innovate within their businesses to drive the regional economy. 

The free event, hosted by the Transport iNet, is open to any companies in the transport industry, including Marine, Automotive, Motorsport, Aerospace and Rail, looking to achieve competitive advantage through using innovation within their business, whether it be in their products, services or business processes.  

With presentations in the morning from leading inventor Trevor Baylis OBE and Ben Halford of Surface Generation - a business recently supported by the Transport iNet to implement a revolutionary tooling system, followed by a question and answer session and exhibition, it promises to be an inspiring session.

Transport iNet's Director, John Frodsham, said: "It will be the creativity and entrepreneurship of innovation leaders who will develop the new products, services and ways of working to achieve sales, added value and customer satisfaction in the most effective way. More and improved innovation is essential for the survival of many companies, particularly within the transport sector. At this event we hope to demystify innovation by hearing from companies that have innovated, how and why they did it and what has happened as a result". 

The Transport iNet, based at Loughborough University, is funded by East Midlands Development Agency (emda) and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).  The aim of Transport iNet is to increase the level of innovation in the East Midlands helping to improve business competitiveness, margins, sustainability and growth. It allows individual sectors to work together, share ideas, technologies, intelligence, innovation and create a link between industry and the academic community.