Innovation support for small businesses

What support is available for developing new products and services?

Innovation support for small businesses is essential for driving growth, staying competitive, and bringing new ideas to market. Whether you’re developing a new product, exploring academic partnerships, or scaling a tech startup, there are publicly funded programmes designed to help you succeed. This guide highlights key resources available to UK SMEs.

Innovate UK edge is a publicly-funded service available to innovative small to medium sized companies. The service offers a range of resources and a dedicated innovation and growth specialist to work closely with your business to gain an understanding of your needs and identify the most effective strategy to accelerate your business growth.

Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTPs) link innovative businesses with the UK’s universities and their under and post graduates to support delivery of business-based innovation projects.

Tech Nation offers a series of programmes to support tech companies and their leaders.

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