Tailored Support

Start-up fundamentals – Sector agnostic business events, workshops and 1:1 mentoring:

o2-3-hour networking learning events so you know what you need to get right e.g. legals, risk management, finance, IP, R&D tax credits.

o2-day workshops for bid writing, product development, start-up review and planning.

Up to 12 hours 1:1 mentoring across your business.

Green Skills and Innovation – Upskill your business through training and toolkits covering circular economy, designing circular products, carbon accounting and effective use of resource (e.g. energy). Learning outdoors to spark new ideas such as networking while walking, brainstorming while body boarding or problem solving after yoga.

Inclusive Growth and Wellbeing – Events and toolkits providing you with the skills and knowledge to create resilient and productive teams through inclusive growth best practices.

Social Return on Investment (SROI) – 2-day workshops giving you the skills and knowledge to evaluate your impact and calculate your social value so you can demonstrate the benefit your activities are bringing to society. 

Made Smarter – 1:1 support to help with interpreting data sets, exploring trends via 3d modelling, creating 3D models of complex data sets to evaluate your product designs, systems and environment, saving time on R&D plus immersive training for new skill sets and procedures to improve performance

Clean Energy and Marine – 1:1 sector specialism support with grant sourcing, preparation and application, new product development and launches and general business consultancy.

In Residence Scheme – Funding your time to work with researchers to develop your early-idea innovations such as evaluating demand for your innovation, learning how to collect evidence to validate your product/service or how to frame your innovation in grant applications.