Innovation Support
We guarantee to help your business innovate, compete and grow and can support you with:
- Food innovation
- Engineering and manufacturing
- IT and mobile computing
- Green technology
- Lean manufacturing
- Creative and digital technologies
- Construction innovation
- Tourism development
Our approach is straightforward. We work with you to identify areas that need support to grow and improve.
Our specialist innovation team will tailor support to meet your needs and help you to take your ideas forward, be that through technical mentoring, design and innovation modelling, research and development or consultancy.
We help you access appropriate, funded support by matching your requirements to one or more of our programmes.
Meet Our Industry Innovation Specialists
InnovateUs
InnovateUs provides up to 60 hours of bespoke support for innovation and skills enhancement within your business. This programme offers help with new products, services or process development. InnovateUs is available to small and micro businesses (<50 staff), open to all industries, and funded by the Department for the Economy.
Innovation Vouchers
Innovation vouchers offer up to 62 hours of technical expertise from the Business & Economic Engagement team to support innovation activity and bring a new product to market. This project is open to all industries, except transport and agriculture and is funded by InvestNI.
Innovation Boost (Fusion)
Product development and innovation is at the heart of growth but often needs costly technology support. Innovation Boost can be the solution. Within this partnership, you can get the support needed. This project acts as a partnership between cross border companies, the College and graduates and is worth up to £56,000/€67,900. It will provide your business with a full-time graduate for up to 18 months with weekly support from SRC.
Knowledge Transfer Partnerships
Get a full-time graduate employee in your business for one to three years, plus weekly assistance from SRC. Streamline your manufacturing processes, develop your business or marketing strategy or develop that new product or service.
For an insight into how a Knowledge Transfer Partnership can help build and grow your business, download this factsheet on Knowledge Transfer Partnerships. Give the team a call and let’s discuss how we can help you access and embed the required expertise.