Expert 121 with Ryan Davies, Innovation & Growth - Worthing Library

Are you looking to develop innovation within your business?

Book a free session with Ryan Davies, Innovation & Growth Specialist from Innovate UK Business Growth, for an initial conversation.

Choose from a selection of dates and times to suit you. Once you've registered, we'll pass on your details (name and email address) to Ryan, who might contact you with some questions prior to your session with him.

Ryan can help you with

• Sourcing Finance and Funding
• Developing business plans
• Identifying new market opportunities – connecting to partnership opportunities across UK and Internationally
• Exploiting business innovation: Developing a commercial strategy and building a team to deliver it; protecting & harnessing your IP; improving innovation management & accessing the innovation ecosystem globally.

Expert biography

Ryan is and innovation and growth advisor at Innovate UK. Innovate UK Business Growth is Innovate UK’s national business growth and scaling service. It is an integral part of the innovation agency’s products and services portfolio.

The service is available to all established small to medium sized innovation-focused growth companies, including Innovate UK grant winners.

Innovate UK Business Growth accelerates its ambitious clients on their growth journeys with one-to-one support from over 450 innovation and growth specialists and scaleup directors embedded in every UK region and nation. Their tailored, expert advice helps thousands of businesses sharpen their commercial strategies, realise the maximum value from their IP, raise game changing investment and take their businesses onto the global stage every year.

Note

The adviser is an independent professional and is not an agent or employee of the Council, nor the Library. They will be regulated by their own professional body and they will be able to provide you with details of that organisation.We will not be aware of any advice that is given to you by the adviser when you consult them in the 121 session and we do not verify or approve their advice. We therefore take no responsibility and make no representations regarding the relevance, accuracy, timeliness, completeness or otherwise of any such advice or information. Any views expressed by the adviser are their own views and not those of the Council.

This in-person 121 session will take place at Worthing Library.

If you would prefer your 121 to be online, please email enquiriesteam@westsussex.gov.uk directly after booking to request a zoom link.

Following the session, the expert will send you a feedback form which we would be grateful if you could complete to allow us to monitor the success of our offered expert 121s.

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I mportant

All our expert one-to-one meetings on offer are free, but places are limited as our business expert partners are giving their valuable time to the BIPC and to you for free while fitting these sessions into their busy schedule. Therefore, if you need to cancel the session, to give a chance for others to still book it, please give at least two working days’ notice when possible via:

• email to enquiriesteam@westsussex.gov.uk, or
• cancelling your booking on Eventbrite, or
• email/call to the business expert.

Please note down the experts' contact details when they get in touch with you prior to the session.

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Increase your chances of business success

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W hat if I don't live / have my business in Sussex?

Find your local BIPC here to find out how they can help you: https://www.bl.uk/business-and-ip-centre/national-network

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FAQs

What is your cancellation policy?

The majority of our events are free, but places are often limited - especially for in-person events, therefore please make sure you cancel your place, if you are unable to attend. You can cancel through your Eventbrite booking or emailing bipc@brighton-hove.co.uk.

Can I attend if I'm not a member of the library?

Absolutely! Any Sussex based business/ person with a business idea is welcome. Though we always recommend joining the library, as it's free and will make accessing our databases, books and publications much easier.

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