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Radio Northampton,9 mins

Digital Northampton: How to prevent a brain-drain in Northampton

Stuart Linnell

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The digital industry is playing an ever-bigger role in growing the economy. Now an ambitious project is trying to prevent a brain drain of talent from the county. Digital Northampton is a new independent organisation bringing together businesses with the University of Northampton to help digitally-savvy graduates from leaving the town to pursue a career elsewhere. Iain Douglas, Senior Lecturer in Games Design at UoN, and Stephen Westley from Daventry tech firm IRIS I-O-T, explained what the project is all about...

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