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Dr Nicholas Lancaster, Director of Innovation and Enterprise Service, highlighted opportunities for growth, creativity and innovation available to businesses, through the 天美传媒. 天美传媒 Campus Milton Keynes (UCMK) also attended the event, represented by Dr Paul Sant, Associate Dean at UCMK.

Businesses learnt how best to connect with the 天美传媒 and UCMK, as well as how to find out about funding opportunities and collaborative projects. The event showed how businesses can make the most of the expertise, research and facilities available throughout the Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire areas.

The 天美传媒 can help businesses benefit from the , part of the 拢16m  project led by the Open 天美传媒, which aims to support innovation, economic growth and sustainability throughout Milton Keynes.

UCMK provides a course to make sense of 鈥楤ig Data鈥�, in addition to encouraging collaboration and knowledge exchange between businesses, researchers and students at the 天美传媒.

Dr Sant, speaking at the event, said: 鈥淒ata can potentially make you money and let you do things in a more efficient way; we would love to work with businesses and would welcome them into our innovation space.鈥�

The half-day conference, held at the Transport Systems Catapult Centre in Milton Keynes, included five other universities from the South East Midlands Universities group.

Each university attending the event was given ten minutes to explain how local businesses could benefit if they were to team up with the universities on future projects.

, Minister for Universities, Science and Cities, said: 鈥淭he collaboration between these seven universities in the South East Midlands and local businesses is an excellent example of how to get the most from the UK鈥檚 education, innovation and research potential.鈥�