11-12-2006

LNet will end on a high note with its final event at the Tate Modern in London. Exactly two years on from its inception.

City managers from the five partner cities (Amsterdam, Hamburg, London, Milan and Prague) will share their views on the impact of LNet on regeneration policies and funding programmes in their cities. The five cities will also set the scene for the afternoon session with case studies of successful projects on the three LNet themes: innovation, social enterprise and entrepreneurship in deprived urban areas.

Delegates will then road-test LNet’s electronic toolkits, looking at the case studies from a practitioner’s perspective – how would they go about implementing similar initiatives in their own localities? The toolkits offer route maps and tools for designing projects to encourage entrepreneurship, innovation and social enterprise.

Working groups will test the toolkits on scenarios from setting up a business incubator to supporting a creative industries cluster and designing a grants programme to promote innovation among black and Asian women entrepreneurs.

This is the final conference of LNet and it is planned to be a mix of debate, interviews, interactive case studies and learning tools.

For more information, a full conference programme and to register, please contact Hazell Jarvis.

Tate Modern, London