Build national and regional capability.
Start with National AI skills programmes, delivered with a partner university in your country.
For ministers’ and agencies’ officials, regional authorities such as the East Midlands Combined County Authority (EMCCA), and the leaders of overseas institutions building national or regional capability.
Government-commissioned programmes, delivered with a partner university in your country: sector AI courses and hands-on workshops for industry workers, researchers, incubator managers and chief executives; or AI-Powered Business Transformation, custom-made for your own leaders.
An executive programme on taking businesses into new markets, with bilingual support, for the delegations you send.
Ecosystem building at national scale, with Train-the-Trainer for your science-park, technology-transfer and incubator staff.
International founder sprints: 10–14 days in the UK for the student and researcher founders you select.
A framework memorandum of understanding and a sister centre that hosts repeat programmes, reciprocal soft landing for ventures and joint bids.
The Global VB Partnership: help for the start-ups and spinouts you select to register in the UK and expand into the UK and EU.
STEAM Xcelerate: impact evaluation for publicly funded programmes, across economic, social and environmental measures.
0+
executives trained in AI in 2026, 500+ of them in Thailand
2026
£0K+
of Thai-anchored programme funding
2023–2026
0+
hours of training delivered across 5 countries
since mid-2023
Source: CBIT figures registry v1.8 (1 October 2026). Figures and sources →
Help your region’s SMEs win public contracts, with AI matching their capabilities to live tenders.
TNDRX, CBIT’s platform, uses AI to profile a company’s capability, match it to live tenders and broker consortium bids, so smaller firms can bid together for contracts none could win alone.
AI-native outcome: SMEs with an AI-maintained capability profile that surfaces the tenders they can win, alone or with partners. Examples: the East Midlands construction hub and the MOSMOP and Thai MHESI programmesCBIT era
Format: A three-month feasibility study and prototype, to start.
Impact story · Regional SME programmes
A story from a regional programme that helped local SMEs find and bid for public tenders will appear here once there is a delivered case to tell.
Who: Thailand’s Ministry of Higher Education, Science, Research and Innovation (MHESI), which funded the programme, and Chiang Mai University’s Science and Technology Park (STeP), which led it.
You contract with Nottingham Trent University (NTU). CBIT, the Centre for Business and Industry Transformation, is part of Nottingham Business School at NTU. NTU signs grants, contracts and agreements; CBIT delivers the work. The CBIT Venture Builder is CBIT’s programme for founders.
Start small: one cohort, such as a founder sprint in the UK or one sector AI course in your country.
Tell us your country or region, and what the programme should achieve.
For a programme for your leaders, or a delegation, email cbit.edu@ntu.ac.uk.
