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Enabling Technologies & Innovation Competencies Challenge project offers small and medium businesses specialist knowledge and expertise to help develop new solutions, products and processes.
Main key areas of project activity are:
Photonics (science and technology of light)
Advanced Manufacturing and Engineering
Industrial Biotechnology
Nanotechnology
Advanced Materials
Micro / Nanoelectronics
Digital technologies
Data and system integration
This £2.8m project is part-funded by the European Regional Development Fund.
How we can help you:
The Enabling Technologies programme can provide specialist early stage / new product development services to help small businesses overcome technical and resource barriers. This includes access to the specialists, capabilities and state of the art analysis facilities available in the Aston University Institute of Photonic Technologies and Aston Institute of Materials Research.
The project can also assists businesses with finding grant funding and preparing grant applications, refer to specialists in relevant external organisations, such as Intellectual Property Office, Department for International Trade and other, identify opportunities for collaboration across Aston University and across wider region.
Eligibility
You qualify for support if you:
Located in the Grater Birmingham and Solihull LEP or Black Country LEP areas
Have received less than 200,000 Euros in State Aid in the last three years
Meet the EU definition of a small or medium-sizes enterprise - employing fewer than 250 full time staff, with an annual turnover of up to 50m Euros and/or an annual balance sheet of up to 43m Euros
What kind of support we provide:
Examples of the funded support available to businesses include:
Product design
Engineering analysis
Electronics development
New product development and planning
Product Assessment
Market Research Technical Feasibility
Engineering Prototyping
Photonics and Electronics Technology Integration
Advanced Manufacturing using lasers
Photonics knowledge transfer workshops
Photonic Sensor development and adaption
Concept generation by Photonics prototypes
Novel lasers and optical tools for the biomedical market
Polymer design and fabrication
Material characterisation (broad range of analysis, for example: mechanical strength, nanoscale features and defects, molecular analysis, thermal behaviour etc.
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