The new Innovation Vouchers digital workshops will help participant SME leaders identify, understand and assess essential strategic and cultural competences, as well as organising mechanisms needed to effect innovation in their organisation. Participants will be given the opportunity to consider their own funding strategies and how best to pursue commercial finance in the future. In short these workshops will give you initial tools from which to work directly on your business.
Each workshop is also designed so that the combination of all seven gives greater meaning and context for your business. It has to be emphasised that all the tools used as part of these workshops are business-oriented and provide a simple-to-understand language that SME leaders of any size can understand and use. Moreover, the tools used in the workshops will allow participant SME owner/managers to target specific organisational development that will drive their innovation strategies and objectives. It is advised that companies attend each workshop just once, and attend all seven workshops.
All Business Innovation Workshops start 10am and finish at either 12 or 1pm.
These workshops are funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and therefore are free to the participating companies. On completion of a minimum of 12 hours of sessions, delegates will receive a prestigious “Managing Innovation in Business” Certificate.
Businesses that attend all the workshops gain significant benefits than those that don’t. From the last phase of the Innovation Vouchers (2016-18), the average increased turnover as a result of these workshops was £11,500 p/a, with future expected benefits over 3 years topping £200,000 p/a