Innovate UK EDGE

Innovate UK EDGE is here to help you grow your business by protecting and harnessing IP, improving innovation management and connecting to the innovation ecosystem globally.

Innovation should be a driving force in business, fuelling the creation of new and improved products or services to launch at home and take to global markets.

Support available

The one-to-one assistance your business will receive is bespoke and in-depth. Beyond helping you to capitalise on your IP, its ultimate objective is to equip your business to engage in continuous innovation and to optimise operations to deliver growth at scale. And when your capacity to exploit innovation is allied to the right organisational and leadership profile to attract investment and the capability to enter new markets, you will have the ideal platform for scaling.

Areas of focus

• Developing a strong innovation culture and introducing techniques to breed innovative ideas with the power to drive your growth strategies
• Adapting a business model to exploit continuous innovation
• Setting project success criteria, applying project management principles and then evaluating ROI
• Establishing manufacturing readiness
• Ensuring market readiness (validating technology, identifying value propositions, understanding market potential and building marketing strategies)
• Identifying different types of IP and protection: Patents, trademarks, design rights, copyright, NDAs, etc.
• Awareness of patent, trademark and design registration search tools
• Advice on business processes to capture and review IP

Who can apply?

• You need to be a Small to Medium-sized Enterprise.
• Companies who are current or previous recipients of Innovate UK support, both funding and non-funding interventions
• Ambitious, growth-minded companies already trading (or close to trading) that have great ideas but just can’t see which ones to progress or how to progress them
• Visionary companies who are developing or have developed a product or service that could disrupt or revolutionise existing or new markets
• Companies that understand that future trends or technologies will have an adverse impact on their sales and recognise that they need to change and adapt
• Senior managers who are keen to learn and introduce new innovation management processes into their business to enable the development and delivery of new products and services

What to do next?

Get in touch – you’ll then be contacted by an advisor to arrange an initial conversation to discuss your business needs and to explore the potential fit with the service.