Enabling Innovation

The Computer Science Innovation hub delivers expert workshops, academic knowledge, and collaborative projects with businesses in areas such as mobile development, big data, cloud computing, the Internet of things, systems analysis, sensing and smart technologies, networking and infrastructure security, and digital media.

Computing and Data Innovation services include:

• virtual, augmented and mixed reality
• big data and analysis
• digital security
• cloud computing
• Internet of things
• software development
• prototyping for a range of platforms.

Clifton Campus, NTU

Email: Jason Roper

Tel: +44 115 84 83158

The Food and Drink hub runs a series of expert-led workshops specifically catering to the needs of the food and drink industry. Each of our hands-on sessions are designed to support your business to innovate in a professional environment.

Our range of analytical and food processing facilities allow our team of food scientists to offer the following services:

• shelf-life testing
• compositional and nutritional analysis
• sensory testing
• product development innovation advice
• guidance on labelling and the application of technologies
• access to our development kitchen and biology and chemistry labs
• product test runs in our pilot factory plant.

Brackenhurst Campus, NTU

Email: Adam Keenan

Tel: +44 115 84 88655

This Nottingham Business School programme, delivered through Enabling Innovation, is tailored towards small and growing businesses that want to innovate and progress. You can choose from our range of expert-led workshops, outreach activities and flexible delivery methods, all designed to fit around your needs. We can also provide you with mentoring and a dedicated innovation coordinator to help you find your way around the range of services on offer.

Activities include:

• An initial diagnostic to help us understand your business needs.
• Mentoring from a range of experienced small business advisers to match your needs and help you meet your full innovation potential.

We hold regular workshops covering key business themes, such as:

• small business strategy
• marketing
• access to finance
• managing and leading a team
• alternative revenue streams.

City Campus, NTU.

Email: Helen Whitehall

Tel: +44 (0)115 848 8904

Delivers advice and other legal services for businesses, including social enterprises and charities, on a variety of commercial law issues. Areas of expertise range from intellectual property, employment and contractual terms and conditions to commercial dispute resolution and some commercial property law.

The Centre’s services are provided by Nottingham Law School staff and students, with all work supervised by the Centre’s qualified lawyers. Workshops are also provided on a variety of legal topics to those looking to set up and develop their businesses and explore other means of delivering effective legal services to SMEs.

The Legal Advice hub can offer legal advice and assistance on a range of business issues, including:

• contractual terms and conditions
• intellectual property
• web policies
• commercial property
• company set-up and governance
• data protection – GDPR
• employment law
• reasonable adjustments in the workplace.

City Campus, NTU

Email: Legal Advice Centre

Tel: +44 115 848 4262

The Materials and Engineering Innovation hub delivers expert workshops and academic knowledge exchange projects. It will provide you and your business with expertise across multiple disciplines.

Through Enabling Innovation, SMEs can access a broad base of knowledge and equipment, giving you access to industrial imaging, materials analysis and process automation.

Materials and Engineering Innovation services include:

• nuclear magnetic resonance
• materials imaging and sensing
• surface modification and analysis
• computational materials physics and modelling
• laser processing of materials
• thin film deposition
• materials and devices exploiting interfacial sciences
• electrospinning.

Clifton Campus, NTU

Email: Thomas Sanders

Tel: +4115 848 3944

The Design Innovation hub focuses on enabling technologies in collaborative projects around product design, architecture, the built environment, fashion, textiles, virtual reality, and art.

Our programme offers access to emerging technologies such as additive manufacturing, allied with the complementary technologies of 3D CAD modelling, 3D visualisation, 3D scanning, reverse engineering, and computational modelling and analysis. We can also assist companies seeking to explore virtual and augmented reality technologies and integrate them into their business practices.

Our expert-led team can provide your business to the following support:

• academically guided projects
• access to experienced design and process innovation advisers
• state-of-the art equipment including laser cutters, CNC machines, 3D printers and 3D scanners
• expert-led workshops and networking events
• student-led consultancy work.

City Campus, NTU

Email: Siobhan Urquhart

Tel: +44 (0)115 848 8655

Based at the University’s City Campus, The Hive is Nottingham Trent University’s purpose-built centre for entrepreneurship and enterprise. We provide budding entrepreneurs with an inspiring environment and all the support they need to turn their ideas into financially viable and successful business ventures.

Through our structured start-up and enterprise development programmes, mentoring and events, The Hive can help enterprising individuals and budding businesses seeking to exploit new business ideas.

City Campus, NTU

Email: The Hive

Tel: +44 115 848 4354

NTU's Employability team offers recruitment support to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). We perform a workforce analysis, and our consultancy includes support in attracting, selecting and keeping student and graduate talent.

If you have recruited, we can support you with developing your talent’s capability to innovate. Our Innovation Community Lab (ICL) is a network of young professionals developed to support SMEs with enhancing their workforce.

If you are a graduate recruiter, or are engaging with Employability for the first time, we can support you in developing innovative recruitment processes around the themes of attracting, selecting and keeping talent.

Support includes:

• best practice recruitment toolkit on attracting, selecting and keeping graduate talent
• delivery of a graduate scheme to enhance an innovative workforce in SMEs.

City Campus, NTU

Email: Emmie Studencki
Tel: 0115 848 2569