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                  Spin-out companies form an important part of Teesside University’s business agenda as director of academic enterprise Laura Woods tells Peter Jackson. 
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                  One North East company is engaging with students to give them a taste of working life and to give itself the cream of the crop. 
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                  In these economic hard times Port of Tyne is thriving through diversification and finding new markets, as Peter Jackson reports 
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                  Peter Jackson reports on the North East-based exporters increasingly looking further afield to win new business. 
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                  Trace the roots of IT giant TSG deep into its past and you’ll find a family-run shop near Gateshead, where a teenage Mark Joynson first learned to sell under his father’s gaze. 
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                  Road haulage is a barometer for the economy and has had a torrid time, but there are encouraging signs as Peter Jackson finds talking to Alan Ferguson. 
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                  The man who transformed a derelict school into one of the region’s most revered hotels draws a line under tough conditions and looks forward with optimism. 
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                  Andrew Aitken, head of UBS in Yorkshire, has perfectly respectable Yorkshire roots, even if he and his firm have enough global knowledge to help you invest. 
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                  Edinburgh recently launched its ambitious five-year business strategy for the city. BQ spoke to council chief exec Sue Bruce to see what lies behind these bold measures.