Supporting you to drive our zero carbon future
However, you can still explore the programme's goals and it's innovative achievements.
Sustainable Innovation connected London SMEs with University academics and expert consultants to bring new clean tech products, processes, and services to market. The cohort structure provided sustainable businesses access to the expertise, facilities and support required to succeed.
As part of the application process, we asked SMEs to identify the key technical challenges they were facing, and their goals for the coming 6-12 months. Each successful applicant was assigned a team of experts from the schools of Engineering and the Built Environment. Together, we developed a bespoke project for every businesses.
Our Cohort
Build Momentum
Our support was delivered via a five month cohort structure. Participants were given a bespoke pathway that offered regular one-to-one meetings with expert consultants, personal development opportunities, and support with product development.
We were here to help businesses to:
Innovation Support
Product Development
As part of the application process, businesses could propose projects to experts from the schools of Engineering and the Built Environment. The project helped them to further develop their product, conduct an independent evaluation, and support their progress towards launching to market.
Holistic support
Your development
A good leader is as valuable to a business as a good product or idea. Throughout participation, businesses had regular face-to-face meetings with experts to provide them with feedback and the benefit of their experience.
Grant funding
Subsidised Staff
We offered a wage subsidy for a new R&D hire to help accelerate the businesses product/process development goals.
Product Development Expertise
Academic Consultancy
Technical Product Development
Frequently asked questions
Companies could have been at a variety of stages in product development to benefit from the wide range of expertise and support available through the programme.
Companies that had a well-defined product or solution, i.e. MVP, and were ready to start user testing or building their evidence base were likely to benefit the most from collaborative research and development with LSBU academics as part of the programme.
Businesses unsuccessful in joining the cohort were will provided feedback to support them in future application, as well as signposted to potential areas of support to help them develop.
We expected participants to actively engage with all of the support available through the cohort. This typically equated to around six hours per month and applicants were required to dedicate additional time to work on any actions set to them via one-to-one support.
A2i and LCLDN were part-funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and London South Bank University (LSBU). All support was provided under Article 28 Innovation Aid to SMEs, and did not affect their de minimis allowance.