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20-09-2007 10:32

Flugelbinder.co.uk is a new website that aims to engage young people and inspire them to develop ideas and create a future full of possibilities, all through the process of creative thinking, inventions and entrepreneurial abandon - the crucial starting point for all exciting new business.

flugelbinder.co.uk is the new home of ideas, innovation and inspiration. It’s the place where fleeting flashes of genius can find their feet, spread their wings and get off the ground; where daydreams and doodles become inventions, events, enterprises and even empires.

The concept of flugelbinder.co.uk was born from the creative minds of Livity/Live, a company based in Brixton that specialises in working with young people - helping them to succeed on their own terms. Some youngsters many not be suited to working for companies but they sure as hell show all the signs of boasting entrepreneurial skills. This is where flugelbinder comes in.

flugelbinder.co.uk is a space for creating and developing ideas online - in the public or private sphere, alone or with a self-assigned project team. Once you've registered you can text and email thoughts and ideas direct to your home-page. Just imagine, you could be on the night bus at 4am and have a brainwave, a flash of inspiration - but instead of waking up with a headache and a lost idea, you would have logged in that golden nugget in the wee hours. Look out Richard Branson - you might have some competition.

The brains at Livity HQ took their 'flugelbinder' idea to Red Bull, who have been looking for a way to 'give wiiings to ideas' for some time and they leapt at the chance to work with Livity on this initiative.

The DTI backed youth enterprise campaign ‘Make Your Mark’ also thought it was a fabulous idea, so have added their considerable depth and breadth of knowledge and resources to the service, of which we are truly thankful. This website also offers impressive editorial. The content acts as a guide for the new budding entrepreneur - how to patent and copyright ideas as well as boasting fun and educational articles such as noodlegrinder: mind aerobics - mind and body tips and actions to get that grey matter buzzing, ideas that changed the world, and brain food - the official guide to, erm, brain food.

We chose the word flugelbinder to front this project as it comes from that classic scene in the movie 'cocktail' - when Brian Flanagan (Tom Cruise) and love interest Jordon Mooney (Elisabeth Shue) discuss the name of the person who invented the plastic bits one finds on the end of a shoelace. This Mr. Flugelbinder became one hell of a successful man, on the basis of a simple, but highly functional invention.