Business Wales: Grow Your Business Through Innovation

The support is available to businesses across a wide range of sectors, including general manufacturing, engineering, energy, ICT, digital, food and drink, electronics, medical/healthcare, construction, and financial services.

• Hear from a business that has accessed the support.

• Innovation Vouchers: grant of up to £25k can help your business bring in external expert support or purchase of equipment for the purpose of exploiting new products and processes.

• Access FREE consultancy support tailored to the needs of the specific business.

• Fully funded 3 day DIAGNOSTIC health check provided by an industry specialist.

• Further 5 days fully funded follow-up is then provided. This aims to improve productivity, quality, and efficiency in the business, and potentially develop new products and services.

• SMART Partnerships - 50% funding of the total eligible project costs to support innovative collaboration projects that require a range of expertise to help businesses grow, improve productivity and increase competitiveness.

• Centre of Excellence in Mobile and Emerging Technologies at the University of South Wales – support to create new products, solutions and services, through bespoke funded collaborative research projects. Their expertise covers Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, support with Virtual, Augmented or Mixed Reality, cutting edge Data Visualisation, assistance with the Internet of Things and other emerging technology.