Business Innovation and Support
Tap into a wealth of resources, expertise, and support for your business. Our expert teams are here to facilitate the adoption and diffusion of innovation within your business and help drive your competitive edge.
What is Innovation?
Innovation is the buzzword of the moment, but what does it mean for business? Innovation doesn’t always have to be blue-sky ideas; it can be about incremental changes to improve processes and productivity. It can be introducing new ideas, methods, products, services, or processes that result in improvements or advancements within a business. The business idea must be “innovative” (novel and pioneering) and more than merely “new to the company”.
How can we help with Business Innovation?
Edinburgh College is a leading, award-winning college that supports businesses in developing applied innovation solutions to workplace and workforce challenges that are practical to implement and deliver impactful outcomes. Drawing on the specialisms and expertise across our
At Centres for Excellence, we can help you develop new products, processes, or services; redesign and develop new internal workforce practices; run and facilitate design sprints; and undertake feasibility studies to help determine the viability of your early-stage concept or idea.
We can support your business with
- Developing new products or services
- Improving internal business processes
- Addressing workforce development challenges
- Exploring digital transformation and AI implementation
- Undertaking testing and feasibility projects
- Enhancing organisational performance and productivity
Edinburgh College can help your business with our experts from
Creative Industries
- Computing and digital app skills
- Creative skills
- Design sprints
- User experience
Health and Social Care
- Digital care hub
- Wellness in business
Commercial and Business Growth
- Workforce innovation vouchers: supporting you to improve internal processes
- HR processes
- Appraisals
- Leadership and management
Innovation Workshops
We can develop and deliver innovation-focused workshops designed to encourage creative thinking, problem-solving, adaptability, and innovative approaches within organisations and teams, helping you become an innovation-active business.
Our Innovation Workshops include:
- Innovation and creative thinking
- Business growth and process improvement discussions
- Networking and collaborative learning events
- Freelancing and entrepreneurial insight sessions relevant to sector needs
Interface
Bringing together businesses with Scotland’s academic communities to accelerate innovation by building strong, collaborative partnerships.
Our impartial, free service helps both businesses and academic partners form the right collaborations quickly and effectively, saving time and money.
Interface Online Contact UsHow to fund your business innovation
Innovation grants can help businesses collaborate with college academics to develop new products, processes, services, or internal processes.
Innovation GrantsWhere could Innovation take your business?
The College Innovation Network
The College Innovation Network (CIN) was established in 2023 to support and promote the role of further education colleges in Scotland in the adoption and diffusion of innovation.