Innovation Bid Writing and Project Management
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Innovate UK Smart Grants
The Innovate UK Smart Grants initiative is open to the best business-led ideas or concepts. These can be drawn from any technology, engineering or industrial area.
To be in scope, the project must:
Demonstrate innovation leading to novel, new products, processes or services
Articulate growth impact for the business(s) leading to a significant return on investment (ROI).
Rapidly grow your business with the help of our expert bid writers, on hand to help you bid for innovation UKRI, BEIS and other government development funding and we have an 80% success rate for bid winning
Acorn Business Support Bid Writing offers a cost-effective approach to winning UKRI, BEIS and Government development funding calls
Grant Funding
Research and innovation grants are one of the most powerful ways to fund your innovation ambitions. They can provide millions of pounds of funding, with no need to repay and no equity dilution. They enable you to de-risk and accelerate your innovation strategy, as well as provide powerful kudos for your company and your innovation. However, grants are not easy to win – they can be complex, bureaucratic, time consuming and highly competitive. That’s where ABS Ltd comes in – we take care of every aspect of applying for and winning large scale grant funding, and we’re very good at it:
Grant Funding
Grant funding can transform your business, with millions available to help you innovate and grow. However, the complex, bureaucratic processes and high levels of competition mean just a handful of businesses succeed. Acorn can stack the odds in your favour, supporting you though all stages of application, contract negotiation and project delivery.
Project Compliance
Securing – or providing – investment is just the first step on the innovation journey. Ensuring the funds are spent wisely and within the rules can be a huge burden, with serious consequences if you get it wrong. With over 100 years of combined expertise in innovation project management. Acorns Project Compliance team will reduce the compliance burden and associated risk, allowing you to focus on delivering business success.
Innovation project scope and development
Our bid management service will take responsibility for running the entire bid process on your behalf, ensuring responses are prepared on time and to the highest possible quality. Every bid is different we aim to fulfil the requirements as needed. Ensure roles, responsibilities and expectations are defined. Maintain the project plan across the whole bid and the entire project. Manage
documentation folders, governance and timely submission management.
Innovation Project Management
We have significant experience in developing and managing bid calls and bid project management. We have fully developed practices and principles for bid development and bid management in line with all UK calls and funding opportunities
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Why people believe in us
“Acorns approach to analysing the problem then helping to empower the operators to find solutions to problems has proved invaluable. Not only did we improve the layout and materials handling, but introducing the shop floor operators to Kanban controls have helped increase the workflow. The working environment has become less stressful and quality .”
Rebekah Cave,
SE electronics
The skill set delivered gave us a standard set of tools and techniques we can use from day to day to keep the business going forward. We have not only achieved the set exercise objective of reducing warranty returns by over 40%, to less than 1% of shipped product, our efficiency has moved forward by over 20% and this trend continues.
Managing Director Plymouth engineering company
The Leadership Development Programme helped us identify areas where we could make improvements not only in processes but also in leadership and management skills. This has enabled us to realise major benefits in our day-to-day working practices and culture. We are now in a position to fully maximise our potential and are very optimistic about fulfilling our plans for future growth.
Madelaine Taylor, Operations manager , Composite business Bournemouth
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