Advice
We have a team of specialist Innovation Advisors that are here to work with SMEs to help ensure their innovation is successful. Their time is free and using their innovation and sector knowledge can have a significant impact on your business.
Support
Our Innovation Advisors can guide you towards possible financial and non-financial support mechanisms for your business including our own Innovation Support Fund. This fund is setup to assist companies with the financial burden of bringing in external expertise to improve the quality and speed of their innovative project. Need some design work, consultancy, testing or prototyping – then this fund could make it happen.
Collaboration
We strive to improve the connection between the region’s universities and companies. We have strong networks into all the universities and can find the expertise needed by your company. We also provide funding on a call basis to encourage significant collaborative projects between universities and industry.
Development
We recognize that companies don’t always have the resources to fully commercially develop their innovative products and services so we have pulled together a panel of leading industry consultants to assist. We can fund 2 days of their time with your business to develop routes into new supply chains for your company and/or product.