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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.

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Signing ceremony of the memorandum of understanding between Thailand’s Ministry of Higher Education, Science, Research and Innovation and Nottingham Trent University, 21 April 2026

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Track record

Thailand’s Ministry of Higher Education, Science, Research and Innovation (MHESI) funded a national AI and entrepreneurship programme, delivered by CBIT and Chiang Mai University’s Science and Technology Park (CMU STeP). In April 2026 MHESI and Nottingham Trent University signed a five-year memorandum of understanding on AI-enabled education, venture building and innovation ecosystems, which forms CBIT and CMU STeP as founding sister centres.

  • 600+

    executives trained in AI in 2026, 500+ of them in Thailand

    2026

  • £500K+

    of Thai-anchored programme funding

    2023–2026

  • 7,000+

    hours of training delivered across 5 countries

    since mid-2023

Source: CBIT figures registry v1.8 (1 October 2026). Figures and sources

Where we are: the sister centres in Thailand and China

AI tender matching for regional SMEs, with TNDRX

Help your region’s SMEs win public contracts, with AI matching their capabilities to live tenders.

  • SME capability profiles matched to public tenders by AI.
  • SME workshops.
  • Consortium building for 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 programmes CBIT era.

Format

A three-month feasibility study and prototype, to start.

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National AI skills programmes

A ministry-funded programme took practical AI training to businesses across Thailand

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.

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The challenge
MHESI funded STeP to build AI skills among industrial workers, graduates, researchers, incubator managers and science-park officers.
What CBIT did
After a needs assessment, CBIT and STeP designed sector courses: wellness and tourism, marketing and data, food manufacturing, chief executives, and incubator managers. CBIT ran hands-on three-day workshops across Thailand in 2026, with follow-up support and joint MHESI, Chiang Mai University and Nottingham Business School certificates.
What happened
Participants began designing AI workflows and prototypes for their own organisations.
Track record
CBIT’s Thai programmes to date: 500+ professionals trained in Thailand (MHESI and Chiang Mai University programmes, 2024–2026).
Where it can lead
In April 2026 MHESI and NTU signed a five-year memorandum of understanding, with a CBIT sister centre at STeP.

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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.

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