Introducing innovation loans
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02/11/2017
On Thursday 2 November Innnovate UK will be hosting a workshop at Energy Systems Catapult in Birmingham.
The objective of the workshop will be:
- To set out the rationale for introducing innovation loans
- To explain where innovation loans fit in the funding landscape, particularly in relation to grant funding, equity investment and commercial debt
- To highlight the key features of the innovation loans and how these will support innovative SMEs in their growth journey
- To explain the obligations associated with loans, particularly highlighting how they differ from grant funding
- To walk through the ‘customer journey’ that SMEs can expect to experience as innovation loans are delivered through a series of competitions with defined scopes
- To enable businesses to form a judgement (based on whether innovation loans are likely to meet their growth needs and whether they are likely to fit Innovate UK’s selection criteria) about applying for future innovation loan competitions.
Who should attend?
- Senior decision-makers (CEO / CFO / CTO) in innovative SMEs (businesses with fewer than 250 employees / turnover of less than c£50m / balance sheet total of less than c£43m)
- Key intermediaries in professional services firms and the public sector support landscape.
We will also run specific and detailed competition briefing events as each of our planned competitions are launched in the coming months.
Agenda
13:30 Registration
14:00 Introduction to Innovate UK
14:15 Innovation loans in the funding landscape
14:30 Innovation loans key features
15:00 The innovation loan customer journey
15:30 Expected innovation loan pilot programme roll-out
15:45 Q&A
16:30 Networking and close
Venue: Energy Systems Catapult, 10 The Priory Queensway, Birmingham, B4 6BS
Free to attend
If you would like to attend, you can follow this link to register
