Strategic Alliances

Innovas works with an extensive range of key partners in strategic alliances focused either on a product area, or sometimes a single project. These alliances are available to the entire network and provide an added resource to the Innovas network in specific specialities, further strengthening our offer. Key Strategic Alliances include:

INTERNATIONAL TRADE DEVELOPMENT

OSA Strategy is a world-leader in providing investment attraction, business retention and marketing support services in North America to international economic development agencies. They have an unmatched record of success in establishing and developing relationships for their clients with senior executives and corporate decision-makers regarding their companies' plans for business expansion, relocation, consolidation and rationalization.(www.odellsimms.com, www.jwpstrategy.com)

INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY

kMatrix Solutions is an International Market Intelligence trends and benchmarking tool. It provides realtime information on 500 product markets, from over 200 countries and in 30 sectors. It measures market performance and provides corporate intelligence, regional profiling and forecasting

The East Midlands Incubation Network (EMIN) consists of 6 HEI partners and 6 associate partners across the region. The network combines highly practical business support for new start businesses and entrepreneurs with business space through various incubation units. Within the last five years EMIN has successfully secured £46.84 million in investment capital for businesses within the network, supported 5,818 entrepreneurs throughout the region, successfully incubated 404 businesses and created 945 jobs. www.emincubation.co.uk

ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL

Hyder Consulting is one of the UK’s foremost planning, engineering, environment and management consultants, employing over 1,600 staff in the UK and 3,500 people worldwide through offices in the Middle East, Asia and Australasia. It has been prominent in the environment sector for more than 30 years and is now one of the leading UK firms in this field. Two of their key areas of environmental expertise are in waste management and water environment and hydrology

NEW MEDIA & ONLINE NEWS

LA Serve UK Ltd is a tactical marketing agency specialising in website design and online marketing. Underpinning these is a range of complimentary services including design and print, PR, telemarketing and copywriting. Their broad base of marketing services delivered by team specialists includes a Google Adwords Professional and search engine optimisation. Established originally in 1993 as Kirkhope Marketing. Website: www.laserve.co.uk

Rochdale Online: Over 70,000 pages of information and interest, and over 1.7 million page views each month: Online Newspaper, Classifieds, Business & Community Search Engine, Web Design & Development. Rochdale Online has been building, maintaining and developing websites since 1998

CREATIVE INDUSTRIES

Set up in January 2000, in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, by award winning creative entrepreneur, Anamaria Wills, CIDA UK operates across the country, with work ranging from economic development programmes, building local creative economies in place of declining industries, through to Renaissance and Regeneration programmes, using creativity as the catalyst for effective change and delivery. CIDA works through and with partners from major foundations to SME’s, from individuals to Governments – with creative people in a range of setting in both developed and developing nations and across cultures, to create economically successful communities and businesses, through their innovative cultural and creative initiatives. www.cida.org

FOOD & DRINK

The Food and Drink Forum Ltd supports the growth of the food and drink manufacturing sector in the East Midlands with a mix of funded and consultancy support. Founded in 1998 the Forum has grown to support the entire supply chain, with in house expertise covering every aspect of food manufacturing, innovation, technical transfer, research, training and skills, sales, marketing and it manages the Southglade Food Park in Nottingham

BUSINESS SUPPORT

The London Business Support Service was created specifically to offer businesses cost effective advice, practical solutions, and a wide range of relevant business services delivered by a team of over 30 specialist Senior Advisers. Key support areas include: Business Development, Corporate Social Responsibility, Environment, Export, Finance, HR, Innovation, IT, Licencing, Manufacturing, Marketing & Sales, Social Enterprise, Succession Planning, Training, Coaching and Mentoring, Interim Management, Management Development

MARKET RESEARCH

Canolfan Alw - Mae GALW’n ganolfan alw fodern a phroffessiynol wedi’i lleoli rhwng mynyddoedd Eryri a’r Mor yn nhref Porthmadog yng Ngwynedd. Ateb Galwadau - Mae GALW’n cynnig gwasanaeth ateb galwadau ffon, ffacs neu e-bost drwy’r dydd a’r nos ar ran ystod enag o gwsmeriad yn amrywio o gwmniau a sefydliadau mawrion i fusnesau un-dyn bychain
Call Centre -GALW is a modern, high-tech and professional call centre facility based on the edge of Snowdonia in the harbourside town of Porthmadog in Wales. Call Answering - GALW offers a full 24/7 telephone, fax and e-mail answering service for a wide variety of customers from large companies and institutions to one-man bands