Experience

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  InnovateUK KTN

  • United Kingdom

  • Place KTM - Regional Impact & Growth South

    • Jul 2013 - Present
    • United Kingdom

    Designing and implementing business support programmes on a regional level with national resources. Connecting the innovation-centric SMEs and university spinouts via 1-2-1 tailored interventions that maximise the growth and impact potential from each intervention. Custodian of unique opportunity insights harbored within UKRI and InnovateUK alongside expert knowledge on how this support is administered and deployed. Sector expertise in digital and creative data processing platforms, urban optimisation systems and connected city programmes.

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  Cardiff Capital Region

  • South Wales

  • Challenge Strategy Advisor (Secondment)

    • Jun 2022 - Jul 2023
    • South Wales

    Working across 10 local authorities, The CCR Challenge team, the Welsh Government and wider national Government agencies this secondment role from InnovateUK KTN frames this regions core challenge areas (vulnerable citizen support programs, community-scale energy/Net Zero obligations, food production optimisation, inward investment, social housing, sector cluster group creation) and aligns the funding support to transform the challenges into new business opportunities.

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  The Knowledge Transfer Network

  • UK National

  • Knowledge Transfer Manager

    • Aug 2013 - Jul 2023
    • UK National

    At the KTN, we solve problems for our customers, often by bringing together people who don’t usually meet and provide advice on opportunities in the sectors we operate in.Leading on the Built and Future City environments, we help organisations exploit the emerging opportunities through the creation and dissemination for thought-leadership, facilitating networking knowledge creating events and workshops, originating ideas to improve UK innovation, producing advisory leads for Government and forming links to other public sector bodies.

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  The Institution of Engineering and Technology

  • United Kingdom
  • Non-profit Organizations
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Head of Sector - Built Environment

    • Sep 2010 - Aug 2013

    Bruce is the Sector Head for the Built Environment at the IET. In previous roles, he has worked to develop the IET’s technical partnerships and new communities.Bruce developed the Professional and Technical Networks, initially in the Power Sector and then on to new areas such as Pulsed Power and HPRF. This was followed by an overarching Partnership and Business Development position within the Knowledge Management Directorate.As Head of Sector, Bruce’s role encompasses the development and delivery of the Built Environment Sector strategy. This covers smarter cities (integrated systems), building energy performance, city wide systems/community scale thinking and environmental conditioning systems.

  • Business Development Manager

    • 2003 - Jan 2011