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STEAM Forward: Supporting Local Businesses with Production and Service Innovation Support

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Key Aims

  • Drive business growth through product diversification and new production development
  • Create an environment that supports SMEs to create new products and services to meet existing and future customer demand.  
  • Provide an enabling environment for co-creation, to enable inter-disciplinary working for example the provision of co-working spaces and facilities.
  • Provide technical support and expertise to help frame market opportunities.• Facilitate the development of prototypes as Minimal Viable Products (MVPs) through access to facilities to enable production. 
  • Connect businesses to the wider business support network and facilitate introductions to investors and investor vehicles.