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 three Innovation Engines — Growth, R&D and Talent — 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.
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 R&D Engine
The Talent Engine
- Support programmes: structured programmes that help businesses develop 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.
- Workshops and ecosystem events.
- 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.
- 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.
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