Support for Business

Support for new and growing businesses

The Research and Enterprise Office provides a variety of support initiatives for new and growing businesses in the region. These include:

The Business Hub and Business Incubation Centre - purpose built facilities that offers a wide range of support services including office space to small and medium sized enterprises
Two Innovation Laboratories - iLabs - which offer an ideal environment for brainstorming and business planning.
VentureNavigator - an online business support service.

Training

We run a range of training course including short business and management training courses which are tailored to the development needs of local and regional businesses and organisations.

Academic Expertise

In addition, businesses can tap into academic expertise through Consultancy and the Knowledge Transfer Partnership scheme.

Who to contact

For further information please contact the Business Development Team.