Innovation Support
Powered by UWE Bristol and Oxford Innovation Space, our innovation support ensures that whether you’re building your MVP or expanding into global markets, you’ll always have the right tools and expertise behind you.
Future Space is powered by four Innovation Support Engines — R&D, Talent, Growth & Communication — each co-delivered between UWE Bristol and Oxford Innovation Space, giving businesses everything they need to build, test, grow and showcase their products under one roof.
UWE Bristol drives the innovation pipeline, while Oxford Innovation Space deepens our reach, ensuring that all our innovation support services benefit from national expertise, networks and tools.
With an extensive understanding of the fast-moving needs of high-tech businesses, Future Space provides innovation support like few others — from 1:1 business support and access to our sector-leading business partners to campus-based research expertise, specialist R&D facilities and graduate talent, all tailored to help you move faster and further.
The Growth Engine
- The Product Programme: a structured accelerator-style programme that helps businesses turn early-stage, hardware ideas into viable, scalable products.
- In-house 1-1 business support with our Innovation Team.
- Advisor & partner network spanning IP, marketing, finance, recruitment, innovation funding, and beyond.
- Growth & diagnostic tools such as GROWTHmapper.
- Innovation workshops and ecosystem events.
The R&D Engine
- Innovation Sprints: cross-university, rapid R&D acceleration and bid-development platform.
- Facilities access service across UWE’s Engineering School, The Bridge Studio, Health Tech Hub & Centre for Print Research.
- Academic consultancy for feasibility studies.
- Collaborative research projects with bid writing support (Innovate UK grants, Knowledge Transfer Partnerships).
The Talent Engine
- Future Space-partnered MBA: Host next-generation business leaders in your company – for 8 months, at zero cost, consulting on AI, strategy, marketing and digital transformation.
- Student consultancy projects with UWE’s Engineering, Applied Sciences, Product, Marketing & Data students.
- Funded internships: 296-hour UWE student, fully-funded, for all new Future Space businesses.
The Communications Engine
- Explainer videos: High-tech brand, company and product storytelling through bespoke promotional videos.
- Bookable in-house Podcast Space.
- New Wave Agency: graduate creative & design services.
- Brand & marketing masterclasses.
- Centre-produced founder profiles and blogs.
Our business partners
Our university R&D partners
School of Engineering
School of Applied Sciences
Bristol Business School
Thanks to Oxford Innovation Space, the UK and Ireland's largest network of innovation centres, we provide our companies with all kinds of business insight tools and exclusive partner discounts.
Future Space has provided us a with a great space to launch our business and be amongst a community of entrepreneurs. It gives great access to support services and workshops, plus links with the University of the West of England to foster collaboration and accelerate R&D. We would not have achieved as much as we have without the support of Future Space."
Jenny Bailey Cooper, CEO & Founder at FerryX