What a business location where the sun shines more than anywhere else in England?  Where the coastline, nature, and history wrap around you?  Where you are only just over an hour's flight on regularly scheduled commercial airlines from  Newquay airport in Cornwall and Gatwick airport in London - and from there: locations throughout the world.  

The location you are looking for is in the South West of England , in Cornwall County.  For a map and general information, click here.

While Cornwall welcomes any new businesses, it is focusing on those in the knowledge economy.   In a knowledge economy, the primary product is knowledge itself.  This is knowledge that can be used as a tool to improve the region's per capita income.  Some of the key profressions in a knowledge economy are economists, computer scientists, software engineers, mathematicians, chemists, physicists, as well as psychologists and sociologists.  A knowledge economy can consist of many small businesses, large businesses, and can include those scientists and scholars who work with universities and technical colleges and those who work in commercial research and development. 

The Combined Universities in Cornwall , with facilities throughout the county, consists of the University of Exeter, the University of Plymouth, University College Falmouth, Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry, Cornwall College and Truro & Penwith College.

Of course, wherever you are, you want to stay connected with the rest of the world.  Highspeed broad band is in place in Cornwall today, with the fastest connections in the UK now in the works. We know that web resources and communication are important to businesses.

For further information on business opportunities in Cornwall, This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it for a view of Cornwall from an American's perspective or click here to go straight to Truro, England and the Invest in Cornwall team and their resources.  To get information quickly go to the Invest in Cornwall contact page.

Other resources include the Cornwall Chamber of Commerce, Business Cornwall magazine, and to know about what is going on that is really fun in Cornwall, there's Inside Cornwall magazine.

Aviation Valley Poland Expo Day - May 25, 2010.     ILA Berlin Air Show - June 8-13, 2010

The Aviation Valley Association, a group of 80 aerospace companies located in Southeastern Poland, will hold an Aviation Valley Expo Day on May 25, 2010 in Rzeszow, Poland.  The objective is to give aviation industry executives and professionals an opportunity to meet with representatives of Polish aerospace companies to discuss partnerships, business arrangements, and opportunities to work together for mutual benefit.

The event will officially begin at 11 AM and end at 5 PM and will be held in the Podpromie Sports Hall in Rzeszow, Poland.

The Aviation Valley Association will have an exhibit at the ILA Berlin Air Show , June 8-13, 2010.

This part of Poland has a history in aviation that goes back 100 years.  Today, two United Technologies Corporation companies familiar to the American aerospace industry, Pratt & Whitney and Sikorsky (PZL Mielic) are examples of companies that have operations in the Aviation Valley.  The Sikorsky S-70i Black Hawk is produced here, the first Black Hawk produced in Europe.

For a perspective on the Aviation Valley Association and Southeastern Poland from an American's perspective and more information on why you should attend this Expo and the ILA Berlin Air Show This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .

The West Pomeranian region (called a voivodeship in Poland) is located in the northwest corner of the Republic of Poland.  It has a 115 mile coastline with beaches on the Baltic Sea. Its western border is the Oder River, which brings together German and Poland. The region is known for its forests and lakes and as a center for tourism as well as business.  Its history is linked to Germany, Scandinavia, Poland and other regions and countries.  And, its culture today reflects positive influences from a variety of cultures.

The capital of the region is Szczecin (pronounced "stet-chin") , a lively port city on the Oder River.  When this city was in Germany, prior to 1945, it was called Stettin.    

Krakow, the second largest city in Poland and a former capital of Poland, sits beautifully on the Vistula River complete with Wawel Castle overlooking the valley. The Steven Spielberg movie Schlindler's List was filmed, in part, here.  Oskar Schlindler's factory, near the neighborhood of Kazimierz, is open as a museum and cultural center. The medieval Market Square is a spectacular preservation.

Krakow is the home of the LifeScience Cluster Krakow, a consortium of biotechnology and life sciences organizations, including hospitals, universities, government agencies, and businesses.   What more information on Krakow or the LifeSciences Cluster Krakow?  This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it us or complete the Business Request form under "Contact us" in the upper right hand corner of this page.  Click here to learn more about Krakow.

The idea for creating Collaboration Centers came from what may have been of the first and most successful collaboration centers in the United States.  This center is called the South Carolina Research Authority, an agency of the State of South Carolina, with primary offices in Charleston and Columbia, South Carolina.

Our world economy and transportation system give us easier access than ever to people, technology and natural resources  in any part of the world.  Metromark assists investors, small and medium size businesses, entrepreneurs with a good idea or a new technology, major corporations, and regional development agencies in bringing together people from distant parts of the world.   Metromark provides knowledge through scientific market research that assists cities, regions and countries in identifying the best partners and the best opportunities for inward investment, technology development, and tourism 

The South West of England, which includes the Westcountry, is known for Devon Cream Teas, driving down hedgerow-flanked lanes, pastoral scenes, and vacations at Torquay.  Within this beautiful setting are higher education institutions such as the University of Bristol and Exeter University.  This is a knowledge-based region of the U.K., with technological advances in aviation and aerospace, information technology,  manufacturing, and other industries.

The Republic of Poland, the largest in terms of land mass in the Central European Economic Community and over 38 million people, is looking for inward investment, tourism development, entrepreneurs and the development of small and medium size enterprises, and trading partners. 

Bydgoszcz is located in the Kujavia and Pomerania region, south of Gdansk and west of Warsaw. The city is working to establish itself as a center for tourism and has ample historic areas, buildings and local enthusiasm to be a home base for getting involved in the historic and current projects that makes this a very livable city.