Marc Eatough
Senior Consultant
Marc has a Masters degree in Management from Durham Business School and joined GENECON in 2006 from the Institute for Entrepreneurship (IfE), at the University of Southampton. He is developing GENECON’s services in relation to business clusters, innovation and enterprise.
Marc was the Business Development Manager at IfE, where he managed a number of economic development commissions focusing on innovation and graduate entrepreneurship, including reviews of higher education enterprise provision.
Marc has an extensive understanding of SME advice networks and the key issues facing small business growth and innovation. His role involves consultancy work on projects seeking to improve conditions for business development, growth and innovation, including the consideration of alternative techniques for improved entrepreneurship. Since joining GENECON Marc has worked on a number of commissions with a particular focus on innovation and enterprise. These include economic appraisals to support investment in Innovation Advisory services and collaborative R&D technology support initiatives and feasibility studies for incubation facilities.
Marc has worked in the economic development and regeneration arena since 1999. Prior to joining the IfE he worked within the economic development divisions of Durham County Council and Southampton City Council. In these posts, he gained extensive experience in strategy development, focused on enterprise, competitiveness and innovation agendas and managing a wide range of regeneration and business development programmes and projects.
During his time in Southampton Marc conducted a study on Southampton’s Marine Technology Cluster, a key outcome of which was the identification of strategic options for targeted intervention to facilitate the growth of the cluster. Marc has also produced policy research, focused on 'Increasing Graduate Entrepreneurship' on behalf of National Council for Graduate Entrepreneurship.