What: John Nottingham and John Spirk, co-founders and co-presidents of NS Design Inc., will speak about why companies must continuously innovate in order to compete in today’s global market in their presentation ‘Innovate or Die!’ as part of the 2007 Michael D. Solomon Lecture Series in Entrepreneurship offered through Kent State’s College of Business Administration and Graduate School of Management. The lecture will conclude with a brief question-and-answer session followed by a reception. The event is free and open to the public.
Where: Kiva, Kent State University
When: 6:15 p.m., Monday, Feb. 26
Registration: Register by phone at 330-672-9430 or online at http://business.kent.edu/cebi/sls by Wednesday, Feb. 21.
Background: NS Design is one of the nation’s leading new product invention and development groups, creating hundreds of products whose combined sales exceed 30 billion dollars.
Working with Fortune 500 companies as well as up-and-coming entrepreneurial firms, NS Design has helped clients such as Little Tikes and Royal/Dirt Devil grow into market leaders. The company also works with General Electric, Sony Electronics, General Mills, Newell-Rubbermaid and Black & Decker, among others, and created Sherwin-Williams Dutch Boy Twist & Pour paint container as well as the Swiffer Sweep+Vac.
The company recently moved to Cleveland’s University Circle area and their new Nottingham-Spirk Innovation Center is one of the nation’s most complete, vertically-integrated product development facilities.
For more information contact Julie Messing at 330-672-9430 or jmessing@kent.edu.
