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Harnessing the Power of Joint Effort to Enhance Collaborative Innovation
In innovation, collaboration is the new ‘competition’. The way in which challenges are faced and opportunities are taken; in which businesses grow, sectors grow and, ultimately, economies grow through the real synergy of ‘joint effort’. But finding the right...
Cross-Sector Inspiration & Collaborative Innovation for Future Technology
In October, BCIMO explored the first of its framework for innovation ‘cogs’, looking in-depth at challenges and opportunities within the rail industry, and how its new Commercial Investment Hub model will aim to facilitate innovation. This month it highlights the role...
Facilitating Rail Innovation via the Commercial Investment Hub
In August, BCIMO introduced its framework for innovation; a model with four interdependent cogs – representing its core areas of focus – that must turn together for new, emerging and existing industries to flourish. Over the next two months, each cog will be explored...
An Introduction to BCIMO’s Framework for Innovation
As a research and technology organisation (RTO), BCIMO works with a range of organisations to deliver core products, services and programmes to help shape and accelerate innovation within rail and the wider transport industry. Within its vision, the organisation has...
Rail on Track for the Future: The Challenges & Opportunities
As the deliberations end and BCIMO awaits the arrival of Cohort 2 of the Clean Futures programme – and so the range of exciting innovations their new SMEs will bring to the rail sector – we reflect on where the sector is at the moment and, most importantly, the track...
One Year On: The Clean Futures Journey
On 15th June 2023, a group of key stakeholders met to discuss and decide upon the core challenges from across the automotive and rail industries that would be posed to first year applicants to the Clean Futures Accelerator programme. As they now deliberate on the...
BCIMO’s Blueprint for Innovation in The Black Country
In this guest writer feature, Naomi Arblaster, Head of SME Development at the Black Country Innovative Manufacturing Organisation (BCIMO), explains how she and her team are helping to shape future industries and support Black Country businesses. My team and I have a...
VLRNIC Leading the Way to Future Rail Technologies
The Black Country Innovative Manufacturing Organisation (BCIMO) is a not-for-profit Research and Technology Organisation (RTO), founded to oversee the delivery, launch and operation of the Very Light Rail National Innovation Centre (VLRNIC). In this guest writer...
The Coventry Very Light Rail Scheme
The Black Country Innovative Manufacturing Organisation (BCIMO) is working in collaboration with Coventry City Council on their Very Light Rail (VLR) scheme. BCIMO are delighted to be working in collaboration with Coventry City Council on their Very Light Rail (VLR)...
Black Country Industrial Regeneration in Action
Construction of the Very Light Rail National Innovation Centre (VLRNIC) supports industrial regeneration in Dudley, the capital of the Black Country. To appreciate the scale of renewal going on at our Dudley site, it’s helpful to look at the history... The Very Light...
BCIMO is a not-for-profit Research and Technology Organisation (RTO) and operator of the Very Light Rail National Innovation Centre (VLRNIC), a unique, world-class centre for rail innovation based in Dudley in the West Midlands.
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Postal Address: BCIMO, Very Light Rail National Innovation Centre, Zoological Drive, Dudley. DY1 4AW
Email: info@bcimo.co.uk
Phone: 07769 586893
