Logistics Institute

Last week I went to the Logistics Institute in Hull which was great (and i've just realised is the number one link in Google if you search for 'Logistics Institute' so good for them! :-) :

http://www.hull.ac.uk/logistics/index.html

I watched a few presentations from some of their incubator tenants and then had a tour round the building. It's a fantastic looking building before you go inside, nice big glass front and so on. But it also has a really good feel to it and some truly excellent training / event facilities that i'm going to try and find an excuse to use at some point in the future!

They also have a technology showcase area where you can see the technologies being developed by some of their tenants as well as other organisations. I love this kind of thing as it's so much easier than reading about something in a dry, boring document. They had some really nice equipment on display including 2D print examples, RFID tags and a new mobile application which is a bit like Skype but allows you to call several PC's / mobiles at once.

I think what is particularly good about the Logistics Institute is that it is literally (physically) attached to the University of Hull and has business tenants so it really is combining both worlds and I have a feeling that the physical proximity of business and academia will be a real benefit for them.

As an example of this, their membership is for both business and students and both types of members can access their resource centre and use the other facilities (which include meeting rooms as well as state-of-the-art laboratories).

This is definitely another one I shall be keeping an eye on and am sure i'll have more to report back in the future.