Design & Grow Your Innovation Ecosystem
We help organisations create the conditions for innovation to thrive. Whether you’re starting from scratch or strengthening what’s already there, our consultancy supports you to design an innovation ecosystem that fits your context and ambitions.
This isn’t about adding more activity for the sake of it. It’s about getting the right elements in place so that ideas can emerge, be developed, and have real impact.
Who We Work With
- Universities building or scaling enterprise and innovation strategies
- Local authorities developing innovation hubs or business support networks
- Economic development teams aiming to boost entrepreneurship and business growth
- Research institutes looking to increase commercialisation and collaboration
- Businesses looking to innovate and collaborate with others within or across sectors
What We Do
Ecosystem Mapping & Insight
We help you understand what’s already happening, where the gaps are, and what stakeholders need. For businesses, this means identifying collaboration opportunities, innovation partners, and support mechanisms that align with your goals. We look at how businesses can play an active role in shaping and benefiting from the wider ecosystem. This includes current activity, key players, and the lived experience of innovators in your organisation or region.
Strategy & Roadmap Development
We work with your team to define what success looks like and how to get there. For businesses, we help identify how innovation fits with commercial strategy—whether that’s through partnerships, access to talent, new market opportunities, or product development support. You’ll leave with a plan that supports growth through collaboration. and how to get there. You’ll get a clear, realistic plan aligned with your resources and goals—whether that’s more spinouts, better industry links, or stronger support for local startups.
Stakeholder Engagement
Innovation ecosystems rely on collaboration. We help you bring the right people together—across business, research, policy and community—and create ways to keep them engaged. For businesses, this opens access to research insights, new technologies, and strategic partnerships that can unlock new opportunities.. We help you bring the right people together—across business, research, policy and community—and create ways to keep them engaged.
Programme & Partnership Design
We support the design of initiatives that fill real needs in your ecosystem. For businesses, that might mean co-developing accelerator programmes, establishing cross-sector working groups, or designing pilot projects with research partners. We create pathways for meaningful, mutually beneficial collaboration. that fill real needs in your ecosystem. This might include new funding routes, incubator or accelerator models, collaboration platforms or business support services.
Evaluation & Learning
We help you build in the right indicators and learning loops to track progress, adapt as you go, and show the value of what you’re doing. For businesses, this ensures you can see clear returns from your engagement—whether in product development, partnerships, or market reach. and learning loops to track progress, adapt as you go, and show the value of what you’re doing.
Why It Works
- We work with what’s already strong, avoiding duplication
- We engage stakeholders in ways that build ownership and buy-in
- We bring practical ideas from ecosystems across the UK and beyond
- We translate ambition into delivery without jargon or fluff
Outcomes
- A clear view of your current ecosystem strengths and gaps, including business participation and needs
- A realistic roadmap for growing innovation capacity and outcomes
- Stronger relationships across sectors
- Initiatives and programmes that meet real needs, especially those of businesses seeking innovation and collaboration
- A better experience for businesses and individuals trying to innovate within your system
Let’s Talk
If you’re looking to grow your innovation ecosystem in a way that’s joined-up, practical and sustainable, we’d love to help. Get in touch to talk through your goals and how we can support you.
