Innovation

Innovation benefits businesses and organisations of all shapes and sizes. From micros to large organisations, we provide support to harness your business’s potential and give your organisation a significant competitive advantage - vital in today’s environment. 

Every collaboration is unique - our friendly and knowledgeable team will work with you in a confidential environment to explore opportunities to address challenges head on, support change, and maximise potential. 

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Our work

We have worked alongside a wide range of organisations, and used world-leading research into innovation to develop a range of innovative programmes, workshops and tools.

These have enabled businesses to identify best practice and design, develop and validate ideas, and a toolbox for Open Innovation. Open Innovation can help you to bring in skills, knowledge and experience, that you may not already have, into your business, by working with an external partner.

Business can access innovation focused practices, expertise and support to renew growth, particularly those focused on planning to launch, adapt or scale up new products or services. 

SME Innovation  

We have a strong tradition of working with small and medium-sized (SME) businesses, helping them to discover innovation-focused routes to support their business growth plans. 

Our specialist SME business team will help you identify what support is best for you through bespoke innovation audits and innovation planning sessions.

Support for SMEs

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The RISE project - supporting SME innovation in partnership with the University of Sussex and West Sussex County Council.

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Skin care innovation

This is Silk worked with researchers as part of the BRITE project to test new ways of using silk to stimulate skin collagen production.

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Measuring aerodynamics

Body Rocket were able to access specialist equipment and expertise as part of the BRITE project to test and measure the aerodynamics of their bikes whilst in use.

Challenging norms 

At the University of Brighton, we like to think outside the box. Finding solutions to society’s most urgent issues can seem overwhelming, and difficult to address. That's why we champion thought-provoking research that challenges norms and assumptions.

Our researchers are unafraid to ask and explore the important questions in order to get to the root of the challenge. 

The Impact Factory is a truly unique University of Brighton experience. It is a methodology designed to address messy engineering problems, focusing on asking naive questions and challenging accepted norms. 

If you are interested in getting stuck into messy problems, come and talk to us! 

Messy ideas for impact

 

Peer-to-peer action learning 

Profitnet is a highly successful learning network based on Peer-to-Peer, expertly facilitated Action Learning, focused on business strategy. 

Profitnet's strength comes from the group's ability to tap into the business expertise within it.

Over 1,000 businesses have taken part to date - highlights from evaluation showed that: 

+ 91% of members said it helped improve planning and strategic skills 

+ 72% of members developed innovation strategies 

+ 100% of businesses saw an increase in new products and services developed during Profitnet 

Peer-to-peer learning for business excellence

Finding the skills to profit

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The Research and Innovation in Sussex Excellence (RISE) project was led by the University of Brighton, in partnership with the University of Sussex (delivery partner) and West Sussex County Council (strategic partner). It received up to £620,000 of funding from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) as part of the European Structural and Investment Funds Growth Programme 2014-2020 in England. Grant Reference: 04R21P04430.

The West Sussex Councils also provided partnership funding to support the delivery of RISE, and through this, provided help and support to SMEs in West Sussex.

Access to Expertise was created by the University of Brighton and delivered as part of the Brighton Research Information Technology Exchange (BRITE) project - led by Plus X Innovation Hubs, in partnership with the University of Brighton.

Body Rocket and This is Silk worked with researchers at the University of Brighton as part of the Access to Expertise programme, which offered businesses bespoke solutions to optimise their performance by providing access to specialist expertise.

The BRITE project received up to £5.5m of funding from the European Regional Development Fund as part of the European Structural and Investment Funds Growth Programme 2014-2020.