Enterprise Projects 2016-2017

Tender description

Greentech Access to Innovation (Greentech A2i) will empower SMEs to develop and commercialise innovative low carbon technologies rapidly and at low cost and low risk to the enterprise. It will do so by offering them a unique combination of advanced equipment and testing facilities, specialised technical expertise and business skills and networking opportunities in the low carbon and tech sectors. Simulation for Digital Health (SimDh) will support innovative health SMEs, start-ups or mid-size organisations to develop and deliver novel products, processes or services by giving them access to state of the art facilities, in order to test their novel ideas in a ‘realistic’ virtual/ simulated environment and therefore fast track the development and uptake of their novel products/ processes and/or services. Companies will be able to gain expert (professional and academic) insights and engage with a variety of user groups/demographics to understand the impact of their product/processes/services (PPSs) on the ultimate ‘end-user’ or recipient, to help inform future design and development. Both SimDH and A2i are designed to complement existing SME support programmes that exist or are in development. To understand the eco-system for start-ups and SMEs seeking additional support outside of our programmes, we are tendering for a consultancy project to explore and map this information. The output of this project will be three diagrammatic pathway documents to illustrate the support, for digital health SMEs, low carbon technology SMEs and SMEs who do not fall into either of these sector categories.