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Mark Champkins | |
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| Born | 25 April 1977 |
| Citizenship | United Kingdom |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge, Royal College of Art |
| Occupation | Product designer |
Mark Champkins FRSA (born 25 April 1977) is a product designer best known for his 2007 appearance on Dragons' Den.[1][failed verification]
Career
[edit]Champkins studied manufacturing engineering at the University of Cambridge and industrial design engineering at the Royal College of Art in London.[2] He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and an industrial advisor to Cambridge University Engineering Department.[3][failed verification]
Champkins' design for a line of "self-heating" crockery was awarded British Invention of the Year at the British Invention Show.[when?][4] [5][failed verification][6][failed verification]
In 2004, Champkins won a business award from NESTA[7] and founded Concentrate Design, a company that develops products intended to help pupils to concentrate at school.[citation needed] Champkins pitched the enterprise on Dragons' Den in 2007, winning an investment from Peter Jones.[8]
In 2011, Champkins was named inventor-in-residence at the London Science Museum and tasked with designing products inspired by the museum collection.[9]
Champkins is the author of The Big Book of Celebrity Inventions.[10]
References
[edit]- ↑ "BBC Two - Dragons' Den: How to Win in the Den, The Idea". BBC.
- ↑ "Biography on Smarter Products Website".
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link) - ↑ "Home page | CUED undergraduate teaching". teaching.eng.cam.ac.uk.
- ↑ "Royal College of Art Innovation Unit Website". Archived from the original on 20 August 2010.
- ↑ "Tomorrow's World". Archived from the original on 9 September 2011. Retrieved 29 November 2009.
- ↑ "Discovery Channel". Archived from the original on 9 October 2011. Retrieved 23 November 2009.
- ↑ "Mark Champkins: The Jamie Oliver of the design world". The Independent. London. Archived from the original on 18 February 2009. Retrieved 24 January 2019.
- ↑ "Simply Business". Archived from the original on 2 November 2010. Retrieved 10 March 2010.
- ↑ "Science Museum Website". Archived from the original on 18 December 2011. Retrieved 23 January 2012.
- ↑ "The Big Book of Celebrity Inventions". HarperCollins Publishers UK. Retrieved 3 March 2022.