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Innovation Voucher

Innovation vouchers provide small to medium sized businesses (SMEs) in the region with up to £3000 financial support to purchase an academic's expertise to take your business forward.

The vouchers are funded and allocated by Business Link. We help you find an expert within our University who meet your needs.

In November 2009, Gumption Centres Limited began working with the University's School of Computing, Informatics and Media on an Innovation Voucher to look at their software configuration. David Robertson-Brown, Gumption Centre Director, had this to say about working with us:

¿Being able to utilise the expertise of the University of Bradford will enable us to develop many more products and compete on a national scale. From a simple bricks and mortar business, we now have a more knowledge intensive, machine-led operation, helping us to innovate our way out of the recession. This Innovation Voucher project has also stimulated many other ideas that we¿re now exploring. It¿s opened up opportunities we didn¿t know existed¿.

View a recent Innovation Voucher case study case study on computer visualisation in Archaeology.