22 November 2022 by James Mcinerny | Comments are off for this post Funding Opportunity - Fashion and Textile products Mango is investing £ 2.5 million in fashion start-ups A few months ago Mango announced it is creating a £2.5 million fashion start-up accelerator fund to help up to 50 companies develop their fashion businesses. For those who don't know, an accelerator typically helps early-stage companies which have [...]
28 October 2022 by Barbara Bouffard | Comments are off for this post Licensing an Invention - the unknown way of commercialising an idea When we think of commercialising an invention, we often forget about licensing, however, it requires less capital investment and therefore you take less risks. Licensed products are all around us. You will have heard of licensing in the music industry or for large brands [...]
18 October 2022 by James Mcinerny | Comments are off for this post Aldi plans to spend an extra £3.5 billion a year with British businesses To help find them, Aldi is launching a new competition called Aldi's Next Big Thing on Chanel 4 which will see 36 small businesses compete to win a place in Aldi's Specialbuys and gain massive exposure in the process. The show will [...]
11 October 2022 by James Mcinerny | Comments are off for this post Thinking about developing a new product idea? Well if you are based in the UK, you are in the right place. According to the 2022 Global Innovation Index, the UK ranks fourth in the world for Innovation, behind Switzerland, the US and Sweden. In terms of Scientific and Technological intensity, Cambridge was joint first globally [...]
27 September 2022 by James Mcinerny | Comments are off for this post Someone else may be developing your idea - Find out what you can do Simultaneous invention, also known as multiple discovery theory, is the concept that many inventors create the same invention, at the same time, independently of each other. Read on to find out what it might mean for your idea. Famous examples Calculus [...]
26 July 2022 by James Mcinerny | Comments are off for this post 5 unlikely products and how they made it big 1. Dryrobe First up, we have a large poncho with absorbent towel material on the inside and a waterproof coat material on the outside. You don't see many people wearing ponchos in public so maybe its worn inside? You use a towel to dry yourself after [...]
14 May 2021 by Barbara Bouffard | Comments are off for this post Innovate Design News Search Double crowdfunding launch for new inventions! We are all so excited here at Innovate, because today (Friday 14th April) not one, but TWO of our clients are launching their crowdfunding campaigns for their brand new products. We have two very different products being showcased and we love them both. To remind you, [...]
13 May 2021 by Barbara Bouffard | Comments are off for this post Teen entrepreneur launches fashion app Teen entrepreneur Rebecca Mabbett created and launched her brand new app, R Reflections, and started a subsequent company in the same name, all before turning 20. R Reflections is a virtual fitting room app that gives users personalisation to enable individuals to identify if clothes suit them, their body shape [...]
18 January 2021 by Barbara Bouffard | Comments are off for this post It's time you started your Inventor's Notebook As we say goodbye to the year 2020 (before hastily slamming the door in its face and changing the locks, in the hope that its kind may never return again), we enter a brand-new year. Despite the multiple challenges that faced us during the unprecedented past 12 months, [...]
30 November 2020 by Barbara Bouffard | Comments are off for this post Client's mask 'Facelet' hailed as "Best face-covering" When the pandemic hit the UK and we all went into lockdown, we knew we had to do something to help. Innovate launched an initiative to give priority to new Covid-related ideas which were already flooding in. We had a great response from this, and within that group [...]
