Innovation Vouchers

Overview

Eligibility

Eligible Sectors

Activities

Workshops

Exploiting advances web technologies for the region and/or industry (this does not include standard web design, development or search optimisation)
Market research
Equipment purchases to develop prototypes
Capital items to develop prototypes
Software purchases to develop prototypes

Opportunity Analysis to support your ideas in the Idea Screening Phase
Idea Screening
Concept development, prototyping and testing
Development the marketing and engineering details
Identification & investigation of intellectual property, including the process for intellectual property creation, protection (but not patent maintenance fees to Intellectual Property Office or relevant official organisations)
Feasibility through virtual computer aided rendering and rapid prototyping
Concept testing
Development of Business Plan
Beta Testing and Market Testing
Producing a physical prototype or mock-up
Testing the product (and its packaging) in typical usage situations
Conducting focus group customer interviews
Producing an initial run of the product
Technical implementation
New programme initiation
Finalising Quality Management System
Resource estimation
Requirement publication
Publishing technical communications such as data sheets
Engineering operations planning
Department scheduling
Supplier collaboration
Logistics plan
Resource plan publication
Program review and monitoring
Contingencies - what-if planning
Commercialization (often considered post-NPD)
Launch the product
Critical path analysis
New Product Pricing
Impact of new product on the entire product portfolio
Value Analysis (internal & external)
Analysis of competition and alternative competitive technologies
Analysis of costs and selling price
Forecast of unit volumes, revenue, and profit

Consultancy towards IT Strategy and Value Optimisation
Building security algorithms & AI
Design & building of Integrated Development Environments (IDEs)
Specialist electronic system, Software design and computer engineering tools
Designing of Specialist CRM systems that drive hardware
APP design & development for Mobile & portable devices (such as tablets, phones and PDAs)
Development of GIS (Geographical Information Systems)
Analysis and Design of Algorithms
Electronic Communication and Concurrency
Compression Methods for Multimedia
Cryptography and Information Security
System Modelling
Distributed Systems and Applications
Software Measurement and Quality Assurance
Informatics (including Bioinformatics) e.g. Software & hardware design of fingerprint or IRIS
scanners etc. that can be controlled through web technologies

Launch new products or services
Off the shelf market research reports
Customised market research done through professional consultants & market research Companies
Overseas market entry research reports done by specialist Accredited organisations / trade & industry bodies in the UK & overseas

Achieving compliance with statutory regulations or legislation
Intellectual property protection
Standard training courses
Software purchases
Capital equipment purchases
Aid that would promote/subsidise the cost of exports
Internships for students of knowledge providers
Design and production of advertising materials
Sales and marketing activities –this includes standards website design, development and search optimisation (the only exception would be the exploitation of new web technology for the region and /or industry)
Advertising and promotional activities e.g. design of posters leaflets etc.
Accreditations
Capital items
Travel costs
Continuation and existing projects with the knowledge providers
Legal advice