Innovation Advisory Support
About the Innovation Advisory Services Team
The Innovation Advisory Services team provide top-class advisory services to companies and entrepreneurs to help ensure their great ideas become successful businesses.
Our clear-sighted emphasis on innovation involves providing the right level of advice and support to technology based companies within our centres and beyond.
Supporting Key Start-up Issues
The key issues of starting up a business are supported with expertise drawn from an experienced team which can provide back-up to businesses as they start-up and grow – taking an innovative approach to products, services and markets.
The key issues for new technology-based businesses include:
- Product and Technology
- Market Opportunity
- Sales
- Legal and Intellectual Property
- Finance and Funding
- People and Management
Typically, our skilled advisors will study each business proposition and quickly work out the level of support required.
Our goal is to use our skills, knowledge and experience to facilitate the successful development and commercialisation of our clients’ innovative ideas.
On-site Experienced Team
Uniquely, our experienced team is on-site, as well as providing a massive network of contacts and advisors drawn from the public and private sectors.
This support may include:
- Strategy – where a business or entrepreneur needs to formulate a firm strategy for the business, its products, services and markets
- Legal and Intellectual Property – where the company needs proper professional legal advice to protect its technology before it attacks markets, local and international
- Implementation – assessing what the business needs in terms of people and resources
- Mentoring – where specific advice can be tapped into by the entrepreneur
- Networking and contacts – crucial to the development of any business proposition, enabling entrepreneurs to meet the right people and make contacts which will help their business
- Diligence – helping new businesses to thoroughly examine their proposition, the team and the products to a level that is acceptable to investors.
The ICS advisory team’s methods were developed for Hillington Park Innovation Centre and are being used successfully there and also with Alba Innovation and Wireless Innovation.
