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About Innovate UK Business Growth
Innovate UK Business Growth is Innovate UK’s national business growth and scaling service.
It equips ambitious small to medium sized innovation-focused businesses to make the best strategic choices and harness the right resources to accelerate their growth, via one-to-one support from innovation and growth specialists and scaleup directors in every UK region and nation.
Innovate UK is in the process of renewing its strategy to best serve the needs of businesses and the UK’s Industrial Strategy. Our ambition is for business growth support to be integrated across the full business lifecycle – from early-stage start-ups to scale-ups.
During the current planning cycle, the Innovate UK Business Growth service will continue as normal for existing and committed clients, including those from Innovate UK grant competitions that provide business growth support.
New requests into the service, outside of the above, have been paused as part of the current planning cycle and more details will be shared in Spring 2026.
What benefits can Innovate UK Business Growth offer?
Some of the support that we can provide you with in Northern Ireland include:
- The Global Business Innovation and Global Incubator programmes.
- Funded access to Catapults and RTOs to support Growth & Scaling.
- Helping Grow your Innovative Business with the right Funding & Finance and by enhancing your Investment Readiness.
- Our Scaleup Programme also helps the highest potential businesses realise their ambitions.
We can help ambitious businesses:
- Exploit innovation
- Build your capacity for innovation to grow and scale
- Take a strategic approach to source funding and finance
- Open new business markets to grow and scale
Who is eligible for Innovate UK Business Growth?
This support is available to all businesses in Northern Ireland.
How to apply?
To find out more about how Innovate UK Business Growth supports innovative businesses, visit the Innovate UK Business Growth website.
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Watch our case studies on how Innovate UK Business Growth has helped Northern Ireland business grow.
Contact us
If you are interested in more information on Innovate UK Business Growth, contact our Business Support Team on 0800 181 4422 or complete the enquiry form.
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