@crowbriarhexe @aud @RuthMalan @timd It's worshipful companies all the way down. The Worshipful Company of Weavers is the oldest of the Livery Companies

I was invited to join the Worshipful Company of Scientific Instrument Makers a few years back and it seemed much worse than you suspect @timd. It seemed they were after a man-on-the-ground to take advantage of the "opportunities" around the £15m #SensorCity development. I declined.

I'm sure they all do a lot of work for charity.

@pikesley @Floppy have there been any follow-up studies on how useless such endeavours have been?

@goatchurch is keeping on with trying to get /some/ kind of lesson learnt with the similar mess that was (/is, allegedly) #SensorCity https://scamtech.substack.com/p/the-evaluation-is-late

@goatchurch got to ask what lessons are being learnt from the failure of #SensorCity.

You'd think maybe you'd want to work out what those lessons are before you spend £1m on a refit, but no, Mr Sinclair thinks the time for a review will be after he's reopened the building ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Must've missed the time when Cambridge was "Capital of Innovation" for a year and that, rather than the long-running building of important tech firms, was why it's seen as a place for tech.

What the hell is a "data lab"?!?

Nice to hear a question from the floor about #SensorCity which isn't from @goatchurch

Ah, the problems with Sensor City were all about the building, not about any of the work around who's going to move in.

"hoping the building will be open this September"

If you don't have a subscription, most of the facts were covered in my blog post a couple of months back - http://www.mcqn.net/mcfilter/archives/liverpool/the_regenerationinnovation_cycle.html