Innovation Advice and Guidance

Following a competitive tendering process, in January of 2010 ANGLE began delivery of a UK Government Solutions for Business product, Innovation Advice and Guidance, across Lincolnshire on behalf of Lincolnshire County Council with funding provided by the European Regional Development Fund and the East Midlands Development Agency. This contract follows ANGLE's successful delivery of a previous programme, Innovation Lincolnshire, since May 2007.

The programme brings the techniques and benefits of innovation to small businesses, identifying openings for innovation based business improvement. These include stimulating growth through the introduction of new products and services and delivering operational improvement through innovative business process change. ANGLE’s specialist consultants provide a complete SME innovation support service, from innovation opportunity identification, training, business analysis and support to project implementation.

Innovation is considered by Lincolnshire’s public sector partners to be crucial to the county’s development and prosperity. Developed as part of the Lincolnshire Economic Strategy, the Programme is part of the county’s contribution to the East Midlands Re-gional Innovation Strategy.

Programme Director Dr Shane Booth comments: "This programme is a perfect example of our Management Service Division's core business. Delivering specialised business support services of this kind deploys the methodologies, delivery processes, expertise and management we have assembled over the years in pursuit of ever more effective innovation capability. The programme presents projects as diverse as the development of new musical instruments, designing special packaging to redeploy a bulk product for retail sale and the creation of biomass heating systems. As with all ANGLE activities, our aim is to use innovation and technology as tools of business growth and consequent regional economic development."