1. Chris Bridle PhD CPsychol LORIC Project Manager 08.06.18
Lincolnshire Open Research & Innovation Centre (LORIC): Working With Academia Lincolnshire Compact Good Practice Event
Chris Bridle PhD CPsychol
LORIC Project Manager

2. BGU & Lincolnshire Business
Long established relationship with Lincolnshire community
University strategy (2014): enhance research, strengthen and grow external partnerships
Support the aims and objectives of the GL- LEP
Deepen our connection between BGU research and business

3. What will LORIC do?
Promote and enable data-driven innovation for Lincolnshire SMEs
LORIC activities will include:
Knowledge sharing events and seminars
One to one innovation projects – identify market gaps, create new products, design new services, etc.
Translate BGU research into innovations
Provide a physical centre for collaboration

4. Who are we? LORIC Core team: Consultancies: BGU Business:
Expertise
Business
Core team:
Chris Bridle (Project Manager)
Laura Spencer (Co-ordinator)
Katya Bozukova (Open Data RF)
+ Data Analyst
Consultancies:
The Data Place; Social Change UK
BGU Business:
Business Inspiration; BGU Futures
BGU Expertise:
Applied research; Research translation

5. Examples of Our Initial Work
Better understanding of localities and socio- demographics to inform event planning
Digitisation of data and protocol for data sharing
Enabling 3rd sector to evidence cost-saving / impact of their work

6. LORIC LORIC Operation Greater Lincolnshire SMEs BGU Researchers
Data-Driven Innovation
Greater Lincolnshire SMEs
LORIC is a conduit linking Greater Lincolnshire SMEs to BGU Researchers, and vice versa, in order to promote and enable data-driven innovation

7. Thank you for listening. Any questions, now or later?
Chris Bridle PhD CPsychol
Lincolnshire Open Research & Innovation Centre
Bishop Grosseteste University