Propelling digital, creative and media initiatives forward
Operating within the digital, creative and media sector? Innovation Navigator could be for you. We connect businesses in Greater Manchester to the people, resources and expertise needed to accelerate your innovations to commercialisation.
From exploring how automation could create efficiencies to developing platforms that could help your business open up new revenue lines, design, we’re here to support. Connect with leading researchers, access funding for groundbreaking projects, and navigate challenges with ease through our fully-funded support.
Accelerating innovations within the digital, creative and media space
We spend time understanding your business and navigate you, providing our expert advice to help you overcome challenges you might face, including:
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Understanding how AI can revolutionise business
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Harnessing the power of data
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Adopting new and progressive technologies
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Accessing the right resources, know-how and funding
Our innovation team
Our specialist team is on hand to help accelerate you from working prototype to commercialisation faster.
First you’ll speak to one of our Local Innovation Connectors (LIC), based in your local authority area. Our LICs all have first-hand experience of developing and commercialising new products and services across a wide range of businesses.
Hear from the businesses we’ve supported
dBx Acoustics is a Manchester-based SME that provides high quality acoustic design and advice. Despite success, the business found that the developers, planners and contractors it worked with often struggled to understand the technical language used to describe and measure the quality of acoustics.
The business teamed up with GM Business Growth Hub to develop a tool that would enable clients to listen to sound options within their developments, to make informed decisions on acoustics. Together, a brief was created and submitted to the University of Salford, to create a portable, inexpensive software tool that would do just that.
“Being in touch with the GM Business Growth Hub has opened up a lot of different opportunities for us… It can be really difficult to find the time to do the things that push the business forward, but it's absolutely worth going out and spending an hour sitting down with one of the innovation specialists.”
Susan Witterick, Director at dBx Acoustics
Our partners
Greater Manchester has a thriving innovation ecosystem of partners and collaborators, whose support you can access through Innovation Navigator.
