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Innovation accelerator

Tackling the climate crisis demands disruptive thinking and decisive action.

Our Innovation Accelerator is designed to help you design, develop, and refine innovative green products, services, and business processes.

It’s an integral part of our Net Zero 360 package, providing the expertise, equipment and facilities needed to transform products, services and processes for net-zero.

Embedded in three universities, we’ll help you access academic expertise, labs, and technical equipment, enhancing your capability to:

  • Design and develop new ideas
  • Test and refine products or services
  • Validate product performance
  • Identify the most effective carbon cutting technologies and process improvements for your business
  • Fund your innovation mission with grant funding, including Knowledge Transfer Partnerships, and Innovate UK.

Case studies
Airhead

Airhead is a start-up that is developing an air pollution face mask for cyclists, offering enhanced protection against harmful particulate matter and gases.

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BCMY

BCMY Ltd re-use and recycle used printer cartridges. They’d hit a growth ceiling and needed a new IT system to take them to the next level.

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OSET Bikes

OSET bikes produce all-electric adult trails bike. A Knowledge Transfer Partnership helped embed testing and design processes in their business, allowing them to take product development up a level.

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Get in touch

No two businesses are the same. Across our three University Hubs we’ve got a huge breadth of expertise and facilities. Get in touch below and we’ll work with you to match your business with the right resources.

By submitting an enquiry your data will be added to our Clean Growth UK CRM system and will be stored and processed in line with the University’s privacy policy, see here. If you haven’t signed up to Clean Growth UK we will retain this specific enquiry data for two years from the last point of activity with us, after which point it will be deleted.