Issue - meetings

Issue - meetings

Growth Board: Industrial Strategy

Meeting: 30/10/2017 - Oxfordshire Growth Board (Item 34)

34 Living Labs - Developing a placed based approach to the industrial strategy pdf icon PDF 4 MB

Presentation from Oxfordshire County Council and LEP officers.

 

Recommendation: that the Growth Board notes the presentation.

Minutes:

Llewelyn Morgan gave a presentation (attached to the minutes) informing the Board about the ‘Living Labs’ project, and an overview of the work already in progress and planned to develop and implement transformative technologies in a synergistic manner through cross-collaboration and cross-fertilisation of ideas both in laboratory and real world situations.

 

He highlighted the innovation strategy; the Smart Oxford initiative; and existing projects including the Go Ultra Low Oxford project installing and testing on-street electric vehicle charging points, work on autonomous vehicles, and the technological synergy involved in developing a low-cost network of flood detectors.

 

The Board noted the presentation.