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Funding Opportunity - Fashion and Textile products

22 November 2022 by | 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 [...]

Licensing an Invention

28 October 2022 by | 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 [...]

Opportunity - Aldi is looking for new UK food and drink products to sell

18 October 2022 by | 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 [...]

Innovate client slays in the Dragon's Den.

9 September 2019 by | Comments are off for this post
Innovate client slays in the Dragon's Den. Did you watch last night's episode of Dragon's Den? Here at Innovate, we all did. We knew that our fantastic client Teirnan Mccorkell was going to feature with his great product, pipeEASY. The unassuming and some-what nervous Teirnan clearly charmed the Dragon's, as we knew he would, with [...]

Crowdfunding Latest News in the First Quarter of 2015

15 April 2015 by | Comments are off for this post
Crowdfunding Latest News in the First Quarter of 2015 In 1997, both the Internet and crowdfunding were new concepts in the UK. Crowdfunding originally gave business owners who were frustrated with the application process and structure of traditional bank loans the opportunity to raise funds according to their own terms. A donation in exchange for [...]

Cuff-Clip-Bag™ – to keep your belonging safe on the beach

7 November 2014 by | Comments are off for this post
Cuff-Clip-Bag™ – to keep your belonging safe on the beach Congratulation to Innovate clients, Jacqueline & Sue, for launching their new product: Cuff-Clip-Bag™ Cuff-Clip-Bag™ is anti-theft slash resistant beach, travel bags and rucksacks for both men and women. The bag attaches to a secure object- such as a sun-bed or an armchair via a slash [...]

Chop Cloc on BBC Radio 2

11 April 2013 by | Comments are off for this post
Chop Cloc on BBC Radio 2 Innovate were very pleased to hear Garry Stewart, Architect of Chop, being interviewed on BBC Radio 2. Ryan Tubridy was sitting in for Simon Mayo Drivetime. Garry explained how he came about the idea and how it works. Chop-cloc is a great eco friendly, money saving product which we are [...]

Dragons' Den: Theo's Out, But Who's In?

12 February 2013 by | Comments are off for this post

Late last week, the surprise news was revealed by Theo Paphitis that he would be leaving Dragons’ Den to focus on his retail business interests. Theo, who has appeared in the last nine series of the hit BBC show, revealed via Twitter that he would not be renewing his contract by saying: ‘Tough decision to take but for the final time “I Am Out!”’ with a link to a formal press release. Theo became the second Dragon in a year, after Hilary Devey to announce that they were cutting ties with the Den meaning that there are two seats available. The question is, who is going the fill them?

Google to gain access to over 1.5 million patents

1 December 2010 by | Comments are off for this post
Google to gain access to over 1.5 million patents This week saw the news that Google, who already offering a patent database, will acquire in excess of 1.5 million patents in a deal with the European Patent Office (EPO). Google - famous for being one of the most successful yet controversial companies of the present [...]