How we can help
Innovation advisers
If you have an established business, our innovation advisers can work with you to identify your potential and the type of support you need to become more innovative. This can help your business grow and compete more effectively in global markets.
Learn more about our innovation advisers
Funding opportunities
Your business may be eligible to receive funding to develop innovative ideas and the Graduates for Business programme can help your business recruit quality staff to help with interim product, service and process development projects. Our equity funding team can help match Scottish companies with the ambition to grow with private sector investors. The investors make the decision to invest in the business and our investment funds match the investment.
Learn more about funding opportunities for your business
Find out more about the Graduates for Business programme
Discover equity funding possibilities for your business
Events and workshops
We also run events and workshops designed to nurture ideas and help to create a culture of innovation within your business.
Find out about events and workshops for your business
Learn how to innovate
There are various bodies and services dedicated to the latest thinking on innovation.
The Innovators Counselling and Advisory Service for Scotland (ICASS) is a Scottish Government initiative that provides specialist advice and support for Scotland's inventors and innovative companies.
The Intellectual Assets Centre is a first in Scotland and indeed Europe, and assists businesses in learning about and deriving value from their intellectual assets.
The Department for Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR) is the voice for business across Government. Its central purpose is to help ensure business success in an increasingly competitive world.
The National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA) is committed to stimulating and fostering innovation in the UK for both economic and social benefit.
The Creativity and Innovation Library provides free articles, papers and tools to help companies be creative and innovative.
The Business Gateway outlines how to use innovation to grow your business and identifies grants to support it.