If you’re looking to explore new markets or products for your customers then act fast as Innovate UK currently offer a brilliant funding opportunity to get the ball moving. Design Foundations Round 2 encourages exploration, ideation, and innovation with support from design thinking experts to help you understand your customers and identify new business opportunities.
We are currently working on a project from the first round and believe it’s such a great opportunity for any business that want to broaden their offering.
You must register your interest before midday on 14 June 2017 and submit a full application before midday on 21 June 2017.
Programme in a nutshell:
- For projects up to £60,000 and 6 months.
- Focus on early-stage, human-centred design projects to identify innovation opportunities and generate ideas for new products, services or business models.
- Innovate UK invest up to £1 million into the programme and this is the second round of applications. One more round is expected potentially in Autumn, albeit this has not been confirmed yet.