Support & Advice
- Sources of Innovation Support
- Third Level Institutes
- Expert Profiles
- Useful Websites
| Product Name | Description |
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Compete: Available to INI Clients only. |
Aims to assist businesses in developing market-led innovative products and manufacturing processes. Development phase must be more than 6 months and less than 36 months. |
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Product and Process Development: Available to INI Clients only. |
Aims to help businesses develop innovative products and processes offering specialist advice and one-one consultation and financial supports |
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SMART: All |
Aims to help individuals and small businesses that want to research technical and commercial feasibility of innovative products and processes |
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Innovation Service: Available to INI Clients only. |
Service aimed at showing companies where innovation is required in their business |
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Design Development: Available to INI Clients only. |
Supports companies in building better design knowledge, skills and capability. Programme takes place over 4 months and offers one-one consultation and interactive full and half day workshop sessions. |
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Start Programme: Industrial Research Available to INI Clients only. |
Aims to increase the amount of industrial research undertaken by businesses and universities in areas of strategic significance. Typically between 18mths – 3 years in duration. |
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Foresight NI Industrial Research |
Aims to help local industry increase the exploitation of emerging science and technology. Encourages collaboration between academia and industry in the area of pre-competitive research. |
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KTP All businesses. Preference given to INI clients |
Graduate placement programme to help businesses develop effective linkages with third level education by making use of knowledge, technology and skills that reside within the third level sector. |
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Innovation Relay Centre All Businesses |
Promotes technology transfer and offers advice on issues such as licensing, joint ventures, manufacturing or marketing agreements |
The ICE project is part-financed by the European Union's European Regional Development Fund through the INTERREG IVA Cross-border Programme managed by the Special EU Programmes Body with match financial assistance from Scottish Enterprise.