The future of fertiliser: feeding Somerset farms with festival urine
NPK Recovery joined Future Space in May 2023. Their growing team of five are working to create an innovative urine-based fertiliser.
With the unique combination of our sector-wide business support and UWE Bristol’s outstanding facilities at your fingertips, you’ll soon be working at the cutting-edge of your industry.
Our practical business support is available for all our resident businesses. As well as connecting companies with the university for cutting-edge R&D activity, we also design and develop a varied support programme of workshops and events, running peer networks and 1:1 business support.
Beyond the university’s Schools, we work closely with the leading research centres based in the University Enterprise Zone to bring additional specialist resources to our tech and science companies, including:
Ideas and product development consumes 20% of effort in a business, creating huge barriers to benefitting from R&D. Connecting our companies with UWE Bristol’s facilities, graduates and insight, Future Space supports the kind of ideas exploration, product development and innovation scaling that can position a business at the forefront of its industry. This includes:
We understand that every business is different and requires different levels of support across a variety of areas – which we pride ourselves on facilitating. Business support is at the heart of what we do, granting our companies access to a vast network of business experts, skills and talent plus business growth and development opportunities. This includes:
Thanh and Vikki oversee the business and innovation needs of our community and provide practical business support for our residents. As well as running peer networks and 1:1 support, they organise expert advice for resident businesses, connect companies with the university, and design and develop a varied support programme of workshops and events.
Best of all, much of our support services are available to Future Space members for free.
Oxford Innovation has developed GROWTHmapper™ to help high growth businesses achieve their ambitions. This digital diagnostic tool consolidates over 20 years’ experience of nurturing successful high growth businesses and is used to model your business across multiple areas for future strategic growth.
Beauhurst is a searchable database of the UK’s fastest-growing businesses, along with the funds and accelerators that back them.
Oxford Innovation Space has a subscription to the Beauhurst platform, which allows us to track 32,000+ companies across the country, from early-stage start-ups to established scaleups.
Using Beauhurst we can find comprehensive information on sources of funding and grants.
Oxford Innovation Space has an exciting partnership with Leading Edge Only (LEO), the world’s largest Global Innovation Platform. Operating in over 120 countries, LEO connects innovative fast-growth start-ups & scale-ups to corporations seeking the latest innovative technologies, products, services or expertise – corporates such as IBM, Fujitsu & Walgreens Boots Alliance.
This is a free service for those customers who are seeking to get their solutions and expertise in-front of major corporations.
Oxford Innovation Space is one of 160 official Amazon Web Service Partners worldwide, which means that you may be able to benefit from free support packages. This can include up to $25,000 of AWS credits.
NPK Recovery joined Future Space in May 2023. Their growing team of five are working to create an innovative urine-based fertiliser.
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Russell Murchie, Founder and CTO of Nusku, joined Future Space in November 2022 after 17 years working as an engineer at Dyson. “I left my previous job on Friday, started
Neciah Dorh is the CEO of FluoretiQ Limited, an award-winning startup set up in 2017 by himself, his co-founder and wife Josephine, and his PhD Supervisor Martin Cryan. FluoretiQ exists,
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