Innovation with impact: showcasing UK business successes
A new publication highlights how businesses across the UK are being transformed by innovation and by government support for their ideas.
Successful technology businesses feature in a new Innovate UK publication celebrating the impact of innovation.
The booklet highlights 50 successful companies that have been helped by Innovate UK.
Download the InnovateUK Innovation With Impact booklet.
It gives examples of how a business can be changed dramatically through innovation and how government support has helped to get ideas off the ground and closer to market.
Innovate UK
Women in innovation: apply for infocus funding award
Women with potential to be successful entrepreneurs and leaders in innovation can apply for support and funding to help them to succeed.
Innovate UK has up to £200,000 and a package of tailored support to award to businesswomen who have exciting ideas and the potential to become leaders in innovation and deliver significant economic growth.
This is the first women only Innovate UK competition and is part of a new ‘infocus’ initiative to encourage diversity in innovation.
Each of the 12 finalists in
Improving business productivity: apply for partnership funding
Businesses and universities and colleges can apply for funding to support partnerships that help improve competitiveness and productivity.
Innovate UK is seeking applications for funding from business-university partnerships with plans to improve competitiveness and productivity by employing a recent graduate with relevant expertise.
The Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) scheme is a three-way partnership between a business, an academic institution and a recent graduate.
The academic institution employs the graduate, who works at the company. The graduate, known as the ‘associate’, brings new skills
Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses access to funding
Do you run a successful business or social enterprise and are looking to grow?
Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses is an investment to help entrepreneurs create jobs and economic opportunity by providing greater access to education and business support services. 10,000 Small Businesses is funded by Goldman Sachs and the Goldman Sachs Foundation
The programme provides high-quality, practical education specifically tailored to the needs of UK small business leaders. Participants will receive 100 hours of teaching designed by leading experts and delivered
Humber LEP Supports Growth Hub Week
The Humber LEP is supporting Growth Hub week by releasing its latest figures from the Humber Business Growth Hub.
The LEP’s Growth Hub has helped more 1900 Humber businesses access the support they need to grow from grants and loans to business diagnostics or exporting advice which has supported the creation of 400 jobs and safeguarded more than 220.
The Small Business Minister announced on Monday 16 May that the growth hub network is now complete meaning that 4.7 million businesses are
The Carbon Trust £7 million Green Business Fund launched
The Carbon Trust has launched a new £7 million Green Business Fund to help small firms to save energy and cut costs.
The fund will provide grants for business owners to carry out energy efficiency upgrades, such as improvements to heating and lighting, as well as offer energy saving training and advice.
The scheme is expected to support up to 2,000 small businesses to invest £55 million in energy-saving projects, which will generate lifetime energy savings of £130 million. Applicants can
Interactive Healthcare Fund is for small creative and digital businesses (SMEs)
Funding opportunities for digital health projects
Interactive Healthcare Fund is for small creative and digital businesses (SMEs) who wish to bring innovative digital health and wellbeing products and services to market in the NHS and wider health and social care marketplace
Funded by Creative England’s Regional Growth Fund and managed by Creative England in partnership with the Academic Health Science Network (AHSN), this Interactive Healthcare Fund is for small creative and digital businesses (SMEs) who wish to bring innovative digital health and
Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses Programme Open to Applications
Goldman Sachs are now accepting applications for the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses programme which will commence in September 2016.
The programme is fully funded by the Goldman Sachs Charitable Foundation and is specifically designed to enable business owners to grow their businesses. The programme helps to review all aspects of the business such as the processes, finances, sales and leadership then develops a strategy to improve, develop and grow all of the areas.
The programme gives participants a fantastic opportunity to
Queens Award for Enterprise 2017 – Applications now open
The Queen’s Awards for Enterprise
Applications are now invited for the 2017 Queens Award for Enterprise
The Queen’s Awards for Enterprise are free to enter.
You must submit your application between 3 May and 2 September 2016. You can apply for more than one award.
The Queen’s Awards for Enterprise are for outstanding achievement in 3 categories: innovation, international trade, and sustainable development. Winners have reported benefiting from worldwide recognition, increased commercial value, greater press coverage and a boost to staff morale.
If you win
Start-up competition: win €100,000 cash to build TOMORROW
Hello Tomorrow launches global science startup competition
Hello Tomorrow has launched the Hello Tomorrow Challenge 2016, a global science startup
competition dedicated to the transformation of innovations into impactful products and solutions.
Hello Tomorrow is an international, non-profit initiative that promotes early-stage scientific
startups with an aim to solve major industrial and societal challenges. Now in its third edition,
the initiative has grown into a vibrant ecosystem that empowers scientists to transform
innovations into world-changing products.
This year, Hello Tomorrow has partnered with thirteen major private and