Open Innovation Programmes

Showcase your innovaton ambition by challenging agile and innovative start ups to create your next breakthrough product or service.

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What are Open Innovation Programmes?

What if the next big idea in your industry is not in your team, but in someone elses? Maybe a colleague in another department, or a local start-up has the solution to the problem that’s been baffling your team for months.

Open Innovation is an exciting way to create new products and services by collaborating with businesses or individuals outside your team or organisation. Our Open Innovation Programmes let you challenge agile, innovative businesses to create solution ideas around a specific theme, generalised problem, or area of improvement.

Testimonials

It was fascinating to get a cross-industry group together to look at the challenge of tackling embodied carbon in the built environment. This is important work and it’s only by talking to each other that we will be successful.

Joe Dowley, Senior Policy Advisor Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

I thought it was a wonderful event and very uplifting to see so many key figures come together to discuss the issue. I am interested to build on this with targeted follow-up sessions, which would be a valuable way of moving this important work forward.

Alex Lochead, Policy Advisor for the Clean Heat Directorate at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS).

Innovating and collaborating with others means we can learn, we can try, we can test, and together we can make the experience of our partners and customers better.

Richard Newland, Chief Customer Officer, BNP Paribas Personal Finance UK

Who we’ve worked with

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How does it work?

We make it easy for you to work quickly and productively with internal and external teams. How much you’re involved in the process is up to you; we take care of the space, tools, methods and cohort management, all we need is business insights about the challenge you’re facing.

Our programmes are time-limited with idea showcases, networking, mentoring and collaborative workshops all built in. Depending on your needs, programmes can run from 3-9 months./news

What we provide

A COMPELLING CHALLENGE BRIEF

Under your guidance, we’ll craft a brief that excites solution providers and we’ll engage our extensive network of innovative SMEs to take on the challenge.n

A DEDICATED INNOVATION MANAGER

One of our team will lead the programme every step of the way, from recruitment through to promotion and evaluation – ensuring you get the most out of the collaboration.

VISIBILITY AND PROMOTION

Every programme includes a number of content-rich events from product showcases, to demo days, networking and keynote presentations.ews

INNOVATION TOOLS

We’ll help you a fellow participants to skill up in innovation practice.

PROGRESS TRACKING

We’ll put together inspiring roduct showcases, demo days, networking and steering events as well as open access to STEAMhouse co-working space.

Creating your next breakthrough product or service

We challenge teams outside of your remit to help you create more value for your business.

How to activate an Open Innovation Programme

Get in touch with our innovation team to arrange a free scoping session. We’ll help you get under the skin of the challenge you’re working on and show you how Open Innovation Programmes can unlock new ideas and drive innovation, fast.

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