Innovation Support for Island Enterprises– TalEntEd Programme

Are you a business or third-sector organisation located in either Orkney, Shetland or the Outer Hebrides?

Are you working on emerging innovation that could lead to a new or improved product, service or process?

Are you interested in collaborating with Heriot-Watt University, the University of the Highlands & Islands or Robert Gordon University to advance your innovation?

If your answers to the above questions are ‘yes’, the TalEntEd – Innovation & Commercialisation project may be able to assist you by providing academic, financial and business development support to allow your innovation to take the next step towards adoption.

What’s available:

£5,000 and £25,000 innovation funding awards

Collaboration with leading academics

Expert support from an Innovation Development Manager

Connections across Scotland’s innovation ecosystem

This innovation and commercialisation project is part of the TalEntEd Islands Programme supported by the Islands Growth Deal , which is funded by the Scottish and UK Governments. The TalEntEd Islands Programme unites Heriot-Watt’s undertaking of this project with the work of two other leading universities across Orkney, Shetland and the Outer Hebrides: the University of the Highlands, which leads on the development of work-based learning, and Robert Gordon University, which leads on the growth of entrepreneurship.