{"id":49020,"date":"2014-10-21T10:38:48","date_gmt":"2014-10-21T10:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=9e22ba77fc1ff7ebf4c52a81fa141605"},"modified":"2014-10-21T10:38:48","modified_gmt":"2014-10-21T10:38:48","slug":"news-story-innovation-vouchers-for-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=49020","title":{"rendered":"News story: Innovation vouchers for all"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Innovation vouchers are now open to all kinds of smaller businesses. You can claim up to \u00a35,000 towards the cost of expert advice if you are running an <abbr title=\"small and medium-sized business\">SME<\/abbr> \u2013 or just starting up.<\/p>\n<p>The funding encourages you to seek out fresh knowledge that can help your business to grow and develop. <\/p>\n<p>That could include advice on an innovative idea, learning more about using design within your business or how you should make the most of intellectual property.<\/p>\n<p>The first round of applications for <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/vouchers.innovateuk.org\/\">Innovation vouchers<\/a>under the new rules opens on 10 November.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"business-challenge\">Business challenge<\/h3>\n<p>Innovation vouchers had been available only to those working in specific technology areas. <\/p>\n<p>Now you can apply if you just meet these simple tests:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022  you need specialist help to meet a business challenge<\/p>\n<p>\u2022  it\u2019s the first time you have worked with the knowledge supplier<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.accutronics.co.uk\/\">Accutronics<\/a> used an Innovation voucher to pay for a consultant to draw up concepts for a new robust battery casing for defence and security markets. Five years on, the company is a thriving, fast-growing business exporting custom-made rechargeable batteries to 30 countries.<\/p>\n<p>Managing director Rob Phillips said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">Every little helps when you are a small business with a hard pressed engineering team. It enabled fresh ideas to come in from outside without distracting us from the core money-making business.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>For more information, visit <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/vouchers.innovateuk.org\/\">Innovation vouchers<\/a> .<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Innovate UK widens the appeal of \u00a35,000 vouchers for small businesses<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49020"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}