How do you bridge the gap between a groundbreaking innovation and a thriving business?
Whether you’re an existing business changing the way you do things, or an innovator taking a new product or service to market, our Commercialisation programme can help you do just that.
We can provide support and advice on marketing, IP, grants and finance, sales strategies, business models and more.
We run regular free workshops, including:
Innovation Canvas
Support to find the strengths and weaknesses in your innovation concept, exploring your offer, opportunity and capability. Identify top challenges and decide actions to solve them.
Business Model Canvas
Master how to develop a clearly laid out business model, so that you can easily describe it to your employees, stakeholders or potential investors.
Marketing strategy
Develop a strategy to elevate your value proposition, brand and identify the digital channels to target key customer segments identified in your business model, resulting in a ready-to-go marketing campaign.
Clean Growth Innovation
Identify opportunities in your business to develop a Net Zero innovation strategy, to drive down costs and carbon footprint, improve resilience, and position your business as a leader.
Grant clinics
Get advice on applying for business growth grants.
Access to finance
Help raising finance through investment and grant funding.
We run Profitnet groups for members, an award-winning peer to peer business growth programme.
We can also offer 121 support to businesses working with our innovation programme, and we’ve got a members’ portal full of helpful downloads, tips and videos on funding, IP, strategy, marketing and investment.
Case studies
Akro Valve supply flow control valves and water distribution systems. They came to us for support around growing their business and developing a new product