Innovate UK Business Growth
Innovate UK Business Growth is a key part of the UK innovation agency’s investment in the innovative businesses that drive economic growth.
Empowering your innovation-driven business to grow at pace
Innovate UK Business Growth is Innovate UK’s national business growth and scaling service.
It equips ambitious small to medium sized innovation-focused businesses to make the best strategic choices and harness the right resources to accelerate their growth, via one-to-one support from innovation and growth specialists and scaleup directors in every UK region and nation.
Innovate UK is in the process of renewing its strategy to best serve the needs of businesses and the UK’s Industrial Strategy. Our ambition is for business growth support to be integrated across the full business lifecycle – from early-stage start-ups to scale-ups.
During the current planning cycle, the Innovate UK Business Growth service will continue as normal for existing and committed clients, including those from Innovate UK grant competitions that provide business growth support.
New requests into the service, outside of the above, have been paused as part of the current planning cycle and more details will be shared in Spring 2026.
Our growth and scaling support
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Exploit innovation
Grow your business by protecting your IP, improving innovation strategy and accessing the innovation ecosystem globally through us.
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Source funding
Grow and scale your business by accessing the right finance and funding for you, and becoming investment ready.
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Enter new markets
Helping you to make connections to partners and leverage insights to expand into vertical and international markets and achieve scaling ambitions.
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Ready to scale?
The Innovate UK Scaleup Programme helps the highest potential businesses realise their ambitions.
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Start your growth journey
If your company is innovation-driven and growing, but you want to take it to the next level, we’re here to help. Answer a few questions to help us understand how we can support a business at your stage of the innovation journey.
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"We're thriving in a disruptive sector with Innovate UK support. Its strategic input has been invaluable to help grow our business."
— Mark Hewitt, ICAX
"Innovate UK helped me grow my innovation-led business so we can create a new era of AI-enabled healthcare."
— Peter Mountney, Odin Vision
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