Innovation and Growth Fund
The Innovation and Growth Fund will help SMEs and growth-focused businesses deliver projects that boost innovation, productivity, resilience, commercialisation and access to new markets. It will prioritise agri-food, tourism and high value manufacturing, providing flexible support for investment in new products, services, technologies, processes and facilities where viability, funding or delivery barriers exist.
Lead Sponsors:
What stage has the project reached?
The planning phase of the spending proposal. Assessing the strategic context for the project and demonstrating how it provides synergy with other projects within the portfolio.
Complete
The scoping phase of the project. Making the case for change and identifying the preferred way forward.
Complete
In Progress
The project implementation phase. The Full Business Case is used as a reference point to deliver the project and monitor progress.
The post project implementation stage. Evaluating how well the project was delivered and lessons learnt. The Full Business Case is used to determine the extent the anticipated benefits were delivered and realised.
My Role:
- Deliver the Agri-food and Tourism Programme and the Innovation in High Value Manufacturing Programme
- Engage with stakeholders to maximise the value of these Programmes
- Support the delivery of Growth Deal projects so that expected benefits are realised
