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Local Enterprise Partnership Support from Innovas
The introduction of Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPS) is creating both Opportunities and Challenges for many organisations and individuals. Combining this with the key concepts from the ‘Big Society’ opens the doors to new ways of working with new partners from across the community.
Innovas Group can work with you as your partner to provide that essential support to develop and deliver your LEP and provide the essential Market Intelligence to focus your resources wisely:
- Action-based Strategies and Measuring your Impact
- Developing and driving an Enterprise Culture
- Benchmarking your sector strength
- Securing >20% Savings
- Driving Growth through Leadership
Innovas will work either as an extra member of your team to provide that essential short-term resource, or to carry out specific targeted assignments.
For more information see: Local Enterprise Partnership Support contact: info@innovas.co.uk or call 01606-551122
Innovas Consulting attends G20 Young Entrepreneurs Summit
Philip Kerr was one of only 5 people chosen from the UK to explore how young people can help shape the world economy. Mr kerr sad he as keen to contribute to the recommendations that would ultimately be deliberated by the gloabl business leaders at the G20 Business Summit.
Attending this event further cements Innovas Consulting’s position as a leader in the field of enterprise development with a clear focus on releasing the potential of young people.
For more information contact: philip.kerr@innovas.co.uk
Innovas helps ECO Entrepreneurs invest in a greener future
Eco entrepreneurs, looking for business funding, pitched their innovative environmental ideas to Business ‘Angel’ investors at a one-off SpeedFunding™ event (a similar concept to Speed Dating) last week in Winsford at the Verdin Exchange at an even hosted by Innovas Solutions.
Innovas Solutions and Angels Den (www.angelsden.co.uk), with the support of Envirolink Northwest (www.envirolinknorthwest.co.uk), joined forces to bring together six dynamic eco companies from the North West with a number of potential investors who are interested in this fast developing sector.
Early indications from this event are that all the companies have received expressions of interest from investors which are now being followed up.
For more information contact: john.sharp@innovas.co.uk
Low Carbon Sector Profile and Report on Greater Manchester launched
Steve Turner, Head of Carbon Economy for Manchester’s Commission for the New Economy, said:“This report helps build a case for Low Carbon Environmental Goods and Services within Greater Manchester and identifies where the main opportunities lie. The report gives recommendations, which we need to explore further, that relate to the sub sector and technology areas that Greater Manchester could support and build a leading position in the UK and internationally.”
The report found that Greater Manchester is a leader in the UK in carbon capture and storage technology, additional energy sources such as biofuels and contaminated land
remediation. It is also strong in alternative fuels and environmental consultancy, and above average in wind energy, low carbon building technologies and energy management.
The report shows that Greater Manchester has the potential to be a world leader in low carbon building technologies, generating additional jobs and revenue from what is a fast
growing sector both in the UK and internationally.
The region is also well placed to develop its strong research capabilities, particularly in low carbon aerospace and aviation technologies and services, and could become a centre for commercialising and developing new energy technologies.Greater Manchester became the UK’s first Low Carbon Economic Area for the Built Environment in December 2009. Over the next five years it aims to deliver an additional £650 million into the economy, support 34,000 jobs and save six million tonnes of carbon.
The Innovas report recommends that this growth be supported by a wide-ranging integrated public sector procurement strategy, providing cost effective access to low carbon technologies. The first stage would be to speed up the procurement of building and energy management technologies for public sector building and housing stock in the region.
John Sharp, Managing Director of Innovas Solutions, said: "By using a detailed approach to market analysis, we were able to show that the region has substantial assets and strengths in the field of the Built Environment and to show how it could be developed to generate additional jobs and revenues for the region.
For more information contact: john.sharp@innovas.co.uk A copy of the report can be found in the Low Carbon pages of: www.neweconomymanchester.com
Innovas named as partner to University of Salford
Building on three years of co-operation and joint projects Innovas is named as a partner of the University of Salford. Together we have delivered a number of significant projects for important clients such as the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales (HEFCW), Manchester's Investment and Development Agency Service (MIDAS) and Yorkshire Forward (Yorkshire’s Regional Development Agency). The combination of academic rigour with proven consultancy experience has created a powerful partnership enabling us to compete successfully for high profile contracts.
This partnership is still developing as we explore new ideas and joint projects.
For more information contact: tim.ashcroft@innovas.co.uk and University of Salford - Partnerships and Collaboration