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Enabling Business Growth Through Innovation
Innovation Finance
Innovation Finance to power growth for the future
Innovation Finance
It is widely acknowledged that “knowledge-based economy” is a key driver of productivity and economic growth. A majority of OECD countries have in place mechanisms for encouraging innovation, by providing financial incentives such as grants, tax incentives and easier access to private financing. These incentives are usually available to companies that can demonstrate they undertake innovative activities.
Whether a company is engaged in innovative product development or a continuous improvement program, our innovation finance services can help companies enhance their cash flow.
R&D Incentives
A number of countries around the world offer some form of incentives to encourage more innovation within their economies, ranging from innovation and research grants to R&D incentives.
Currently in the UK we provide highly bespoke R&D Advisory service, specialising in technology audits and benchmarking.
With well over a decade of successfully advising on R&D activities across a range of different industry sectors and deep expertise in technology & R&D, we have delivered significant value to our clients. Our success is largely down to our unique methodologies that enable our clients to mitigate any risks whilst maximising their returns.
Besides the UK, we also provide R&D incentive service across a number of countries.
Innovation Finance Strategy
The knowledge created by investment in innovation/R&D is intangible and partly embedded in human capital.
Institutional investors prefer to use physical assets to secure loans and are often reluctant to lend when projects require substantial funding in innovation/R&D instead of investment in fixed assets. As a result, companies often incur higher cost of capital particularly those in the R&D-intensive industry.
While for all innovative activities it is crucial that company operations and investor plans are aligned, there is also the need for a well-defined innovation finance strategy. Our service line deals with value-creation strategy, particularly how to improve the financial returns from innovative activities.
Patent or Innovation Box
A number of countries now offer significant incentives to companies that seek to earn profits by exploiting intellectual property. While the specific nature of this type of incentive varies from country to country, a degree of due diligence is necessary to ensure that the right level of incentives are claimed.
We provide a highly bespoke approach to help companies analyse their IP, while ensuring that future processes are made simpler by helping to embed the methodology within the company’s technology audit process.