"I will use Innovate again most definitely"
Teirnan McCorkell
"I was very pleased with the final product design"
Kate Castle
"I felt like we were on the same team"
Tara Lalvani
"I loved collaborating with Innovate"
Anne-Sophie
"First class technical recommendations and support"
Barry Jenkins
"Working with Innovate was a great experience"
Aswan Ali
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"At last! Honest advice on ideas"
It's still good to know there are people like you around who will give immediate and honest feedback"
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How we help you discover the potential of your idea
From your first research to your first sale, we guide you through each step and introduce you to the right experts along the way.
For 25 years we have helped inventors in the UK and beyond turn ideas into real products.
Submit your idea1Help you research your idea
- We can help you do your own patent and market research, or provide a comprehensive research report delivered by experts.
2Help you make a prototype
- We can help you make a prototype yourself, or make it for you in our state-of-the-art prototyping workshop.
3Introduce you to designers
- We introduce you to UK product designers who have worked on real products.
4Make sure you own the design
- In the UK, a designer usually owns the rights in their work unless they are transferred in writing. All our design work comes with an Assignment Agreement, so you retain all the IP created.
5Use a CIPA patent attorney for patent drafting
- We can introduce you to a Chartered Patent Attorney, or to a more affordable professional patent drafter.
6Do small batch manufacture to test the market
- We can help you do small batch manufacture to test the market.
- We can develop your design for 3D printing and other low-volume methods.
7Consider your options to commercialise: license, sell D2C or B2B
- We can help you license
- We can create your pitch and introduce you to industry.
- We can help you sell D2C and B2B
- We'll develop the design and introduce you to manufacturing partners in the UK and the Far East.
All in one product development
With many years of experience, the team know how best to commercialise an idea, from affordable patent protection and prototyping through to licensing your idea to a company or having the product manufactured. Taking a new product idea to market has risks which Innovate can help you identify and address early on. We help innovators discover if their idea has got merit.
Award winning team
The Innovate team comprise award winning product design engineers, market researchers, patent searchers, business development professionals and Intellectual Property experts, with experience in all areas of IP, product design, manufacturing and global distribution networks.
Global network
With offices in London, Paris and Florida, Innovate are perfectly positioned to help you succeed internationally. Innovate is not the Patent Office however they can advise you on how the Patent Office works and guide you through making an application for a patent. They provide a complete service from patent search, protecting/patenting a product, through design and prototyping, to advice on marketing.