{"id":78037,"date":"2017-01-17T12:00:06","date_gmt":"2017-01-17T12:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=f1ce2ba84ad7185bf23d2be2cbeb4522"},"modified":"2017-01-17T12:00:06","modified_gmt":"2017-01-17T12:00:06","slug":"news-story-using-design-to-drive-innovation-apply-for-business-funding-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=78037","title":{"rendered":"News story: Using design to drive innovation: apply for business funding"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Innovate UK has up to \u00a31 million to support business projects that use early-stage design activities to help them identify innovation opportunities and generate new ideas.<\/p>\n

The aim is to encourage businesses to use design-led methods to understand customer motivations and behaviour, inspire new ideas, support decision-making and inform strategy.<\/p>\n

Early-stage design activity can help businesses to tackle the right problems and to generate ideas that are more likely to meet the needs of their customers.<\/p>\n

According to the Design Council<\/a>, \u00a31 invested in early-stage design can deliver as much as a \u00a320 increase in revenues for a business. However, many businesses rarely or never use design, or tend to use it as a last finish.<\/p>\n

The competition will support businesses exploring ideas for physical or digital products, services and business models.<\/p>\n

They may be in any sector but proposals are particularly encouraged in Innovate UK\u2019s priority areas of health and life sciences; manufacturing and materials; infrastructure systems; and emerging and enabling technologies.<\/p>\n

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Find out more about how Innovate UK supports design in innovation.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Competition information<\/h2>\n