The Innovation SuperNetwork connects innovation expertise and market opportunities to help North East SMEs grow. The Innovation SuperNetwork’s specialist business support gives North East entrepreneurs, start-ups and scale-ups direct access to new market opportunities, finance and sector expertise. Helping entrepreneurs to take their company to the next level. The organisation runs innovation accelerators, Access to …

‘’Climate change is arguably the biggest challenge we face globally. To reach those critical net-zero targets by 2050, now is the time for urgent and collective action across communities, across sectors and around the world. Within the UK, that means towns, cities and regions working together to develop green solutions. Using the innovation found in …

Northern Accelerator is an exciting collaboration between the North East’s universities, creating real-world impact from world-leading research, commercialising innovation and boosting the region’s economy. It is driving a step change in the commercialisation of research to help address regional imbalance and strengthen the North East knowledge economy. We bring together academics and business leaders, with …

Northstar Ventures has been supporting entrepreneurs since 2004. We provide early stage venture capital and impact investments to entrepreneurs with big ideas. The founders in our portfolio are innovators, designers, engineers, scientists, business chiefs, agents for social change and much more. To us, support means more than just financial backing: we help our portfolio to …

The North East Local Enterprise Partnership (North East LEP) is a public, private and education sector partnership. We are one of thirty-eight LEPs in the country and are responsible for promoting and developing economic growth in the local authority areas of County Durham, Gateshead, Newcastle, North Tyneside, Northumberland, South Tyneside and Sunderland. We produce our …