Innovate UK Business Growth

Innovate UK Business Growth is Innovate UK's national business growth and scaling service, forming part of the UK's innovation agency's investment in innovation-driven businesses. It equips ambitious small and medium-sized innovation-focused businesses to make strategic choices and access the right resources to accelerate growth, through one-to-one support from innovation and growth specialists and scaleup directors in every UK region and nation. Support covers exploiting innovation (including protecting intellectual property and improving innovation strategy), sourcing funding and finance and becoming investment-ready, entering new markets by making connections with partners and leveraging insight for vertical and international expansion, and a Scaleup Programme for the highest-potential businesses. The page notes that Innovate UK is currently renewing its strategy so that business growth support is integrated across the full business lifecycle, and that during the current planning cycle the service continues as normal for existing and committed clients, including those from Innovate UK grant competitions providing business growth support, but new requests outside of this have been paused. The service also offers events, articles and case studies, and a related newsletter via Innovate UK Business Connect.

Aimed at ambitious small to medium-sized innovation-focused UK businesses; the page notes that during the current planning cycle, new requests into the service outside of existing/committed clients and Innovate UK grant competition clients have been paused.