Eco-I North West
Become a low carbon business ready for the future! The business landscape has changed. The transition to a low carbon economy has already begun. Let us help you change the way you do business by adopting low carbon business solutions.
Develop new product and service innovations, adopt a future-ready business model and reduce the carbon footprint of your operations.
You’ll be able to work with us on your specific business challenge. Gaining access to our group of universities shared expertise, equipment, and resources, we’ll work together, to find a solution to your problem.
- Access award-winning business and innovation support
- Benefit from knowledge and skills demonstrated to be world-leading in a UK Science Innovation Audit
- Gain access to knowledge, expertise, facilities, and technical resources from 6 leading regional research institutions Double the potential return on R&D investment by collaborating with a university
- Address key challenges and lead a sustainable revolution in your sector
- Join a network of like-minded businesses and connect with peers, stakeholders, collaborators and global contacts
- Access on online learning platform with additional resources to compliment you innovation plans.
Who is it for?
- To be eligible the business needs to be an SME* based in the North West including Greater Manchester, Cheshire and Warrington, Lancashire, Cumbria, and Liverpool City Region.
- Your business can be across any sector but we’re particularly focusing on the areas of: Environmental Industries, Technology and Services, Future Energy Systems and Advanced Manufacturing, as well as Materials and Chemistry.
*To qualify as an SME on this programme, the business must have fewer than 250 employees, Turnover of less than 50m Euros, Balance sheet less than 43M Euros.
How does it work?
On each cohort we take the very latest in research and delivery to bring you exciting, engaging, and powerful workshops that can help businesses to:
-Develop new products and services that can reduce the carbon footprint of business operations.
-Create net-zero action plans that can guide organisations in the transition from current-practice to next-practice.
-Reduce costs and enhance performance.
-Create new revenue streams.
-Expand into new markets.
-Understand innovation and develop an in-house innovation process and culture.
ECO-I NW is a collaboration between six universities in the North West.
Our group includes: Lancaster University; University of Central Lancashire; University of Cumbria, University of Liverpool; Liverpool John Moores, and Manchester Met.
It’s the result of eight years’ successful collaborative research and design (R&D) activities.
Working together means that you’ll have access to our shared expertise, equipment, and resources. For further information please visit the following link, where you can also complete an informal Expression of Interest Form, so a member of our team can get in touch to see how best we can support your business.
ECO-I North West · Manchester Metropolitan University (mmu.ac.uk)
Eco-I North West is part-funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).
You can also contact Johnny Reay, Enterprise Associate for the Eco-I North West project at j.reay@mmu.ac.uk / 07341 868 894
