Finding Solutions Together
The University of Lincoln has a wide range of disciplines and specialisms, offering businesses the opportunity to tap into a wealth of sector-specific knowledge, experience, and expertise. Your organisation could partner with a University of Lincoln academic to develop a product, service, or solution to help your business to grow.
Our Commercial teams will work to understand your requirements and then partner you with the academic(s) best placed to offer support. They’ll ensure each project is efficiently managed, handling all the administrative, contractual, and financial processes.
What Can Academic Consultancy Involve?
- Applying technical expertise to industry challenges
- Advising on process to deliver a project or improve productivity
- Providing expert analysis and interpretation of data or research results
- Acting as an expert witness
- Carrying out viability investigations on development projects
- Giving technical and creative expertise and solutions to industrial problems
- Conducting a literature review
- Briefing on policy
- Serving on committees and advisory boards
What Are the Potential Benefits to Your Business?
- Move forward with confidence in new projects
- Solve challenges before they become barriers
- Uncover new opportunities for growth
- Co-produce new innovations
- Gain intellectual property
- Validate your policies
- Embed a culture of innovation and productivity
- Access our facilities and wider business services
- Upskill your workforce
"Accessing academic expertise has allowed us to develop our business in a unique way. Through the Productivity Programme we were able to work with a University of Lincoln academic with the knowledge and expertise to help us create a Carbon Footprint Tool, the first of its kind for our industry. The academic was happy to work with both ourselves and an environmental company to develop the tool. The process was straightforward and communication was brilliant. I would highly recommend this programme."
- Ellie Good, Head of Sustainability, Reuseabox
The Productivity Programme for Greater Lincolnshire
SMEs in Greater Lincolnshire may be able to access Productivity Vouchers, redeemable for access to academic expertise and technical facilities, via the Productivity Programme for Greater Lincolnshire. The aim of the vouchers is to support businesses by addressing a specific need to drive forward a new idea, product, process, or service. They provide up to 16 days of support and are fully funded through the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), with no financial cost to the business.
If you are an SME in the region seeking academic support, please get in touch via our dedicated Productivity Programme website. You can also contact our Business Development Officer for the Programme, Charli Whittaker, via cwhittaker@lincoln.ac.uk.
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