Crack your business productivity puzzle: new funding available

Innovate UK is making up to £3 million available to help make businesses more productive and solve the problems that are holding back their growth (August 23rd).The fund will allow businesses to work with some of the country’s leading analysts and measurement experts to help improve their productivity and competitiveness.The funding is provided by Innovate UK, the National Physical Laboratory, the National Measurement Laboratory, the National Engineering Laboratory and the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC).It comes through the analysis for innovators programme, which aims to help individual companies solve tricky and sometimes long-running technical problems that can affect how well their products, processes or services function.In 2017, 96% of UK businesses employed fewer than 10 staff. We know that many lack the skills for effective analysis and measurement. This programme aims to address that. By awarding access to expertise and the facilities of the laboratories and STFC, it allows businesses to optimise processes or improve their specifications to unlock new markets.