Let us help you strengthen your business through innovation

What will be covered during this session?

Productivity and Innovation Awareness Training – business training designed to:

• improve business understanding of productivity;
• focus on business innovation and emerging technologies as improvement enablers for business productivity, and achievement of Net Zero;
• encourage collaboration with FE colleges, Universities, and supply chain partners to improve knowledge transfer; and
• signpost available business support packages and encourage increased applications from MSW businesses.

Benefits of the Productivity and Awareness Training include:

• free participation however time commitment required;
• knowledge transfer;
• assessment of your business’s baseline productivity position;
• assistance with the development of a decarbonisation plan;
• opportunity for improved collaboration with FE colleges;
• opportunity to participate in the Business Innovation Strategy Development Scheme;
• opportunity to potentially access a Business Leadership and Technical Advisory Voucher with a value of £3,000; and
• being positioned to access a proposed c£15m Industrial Investment Challenge Fund (2024-2026).

Business Innovation & Productivity Awareness Training

The MSW Pilot Business Innovation Programme is being delivered by the partner councils throughout the Mid-South West Region - Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council, Fermanagh and Omagh District Council and Mid Ulster District Council.

Brilliant Red are managing the delivery of this programme on behalf of the three-council collaboration.

The programme will run from March – June 2022.

Aim: The purpose of the pilot project is to grow business innovation and productivity in SME businesses located in MSW (Mid-South West Region) and to support participating businesses on their innovation journey.

Business Innovation Strategy Development Scheme* – to assist companies to develop a tailored, high impact, realisable innovation action plan defined to meet individual business needs, addressing key themes including:

• operational productivity;
• digitisation;
• decarbonisation;
• resource and skills; and
• finance and support.

Business Leadership and Technical Advisory Vouchers* – support businesses with access to industry experts to provide exceptional leadership and technical support to complex innovation projects.

Industrial Sectors Supported

If you are a Micro or Small Medium Enterprise (SME) operating in the industrial sectors that dominate in the region (detailed below) and would like to find out more about the pilot Business Innovation Programme, please contact avril@brilliantred.co.uk or telephone 028 3082 1100.

You can also express your interest in joining the programme by visiting https://midsouthwestregion.org/pilot-business-innovation-programme/

• Manufacturing
• Engineering
• Aerospace
• Construction
• Agri-food processing
• Mining and quarrying
• Logistics and warehousing (including road haulage and distribution)
• Information and communication technology
• Pharmaceutical