Innovation Programmes
Innovation Programmes
Plus X Innovation provides the tools and support you need to drive innovation and growth. Our in-house team designs and delivers business support and game-changing innovation programmes for startups, SMEs, and corporates. We work with our members in collaboration with a world-class network of mentors, experts, investors, innovators, academics, and industry partners.
This hands-on support and powerful ecosystem helps businesses and professionals to connect, innovate, and accelerate hundreds of innovative products and services each year.
Upcoming programmes
Grant Writing Masterclass
The Grant Writing Masterclass is designed to help you effectively navigate the grant writing landscape and craft a winning grant application. Designed for ambitious startups looking for funding and pre-revenue founders across sectors, this programme is curated to help you learn how to write an effective grant application to increase your chances of securing funding.
Workshop sessions: Manufacturing 101
Are you an innovator, entrepreneur, or designer looking to take your product ideas from concept to reality? Join us to learn how products are manufactured at scale, and how you can successfully work with factories and suppliers to bring your product to life.
Workshop sessions: Kickstart Batch Production
Are you considering launching a product through a Kickstarter campaign or producing a small run of products to test the market? Join our batch production and crowdfunding workshop and gain the knowledge and skills you need to successfully bring your product ideas to life.
Workshop sessions: Introduction to SolidWorks CAD Software
Unlock the Future of Design and Manufacturing with Our Specialised Training! Are you looking to enhance your skills in CAD software and explore the cutting-edge world of 3D printing?
Workshop sessions: Introduction to 3D printing
Learn how to use the most popular rapid prototyping tool in the workshop: the 3D printer. From design in CAD software, through to preparing it for printing, and producing a printed part.
Mastering AI for Business
This two-day program is designed to help you master AI tools to automate various tasks, saving you time, money, and mental bandwidth. Learn from the experts at Simpler with AI and discover how to leverage AI for your business's success.
Experts Clinics
Get expert advice at Plus X Innovation. Members can access complimentary 1:1 sessions with vetted experts to focus on growing your business and tackling your bespoke challenges.
Leaders Circle
Up to 20 Founders + Leaders from the Plus X Innovation community will join forces to create a powerful peer-to-peer network, provide valuable support to each other and respond to the pressing challenges of business together.
Past programmes
Stage-One Pre-Accelerator
Take your idea, test it, validate it and get it market ready. In just one day a week, for 8 weeks, our Stage-One Pre-Accelerator innovation programme helps you to validate assumptions and develop the critical foundations for market success.
CRL Accelerator
The CRL Accelerator offers an unrivalled package of support to hardware startups. Over the course of four months, the intensive and hands-on innovation programme focuses on product and business development. Support includes access to industry-leading mentors and an experienced product development team, alongside introductions to suppliers and manufacturers.
Investment Readiness
Embark on your next funding round with confidence! Our two-day innovation programme equips founders to navigate the challenges of fundraising. Gain a deep understanding of VC expectations, engage with investors strategically, and master the pitch. Elevate your fundraising strategy and position your business for success.
Pioneers
Are you a purpose-driven individual or business looking to magnify your positive impact on society, the environment, or community? Become a Pioneer today!
Storytelling 101 for your business workshop
Join our workshop focused on "Storytelling for Your Business," designed specifically for startups and small companies looking to stand out in today's competitive market.
Navigating the Fundraising Landscape Panel
A panel-led discussion on navigating the world of fundraising for ambitious businesses, led by Plus X Innovation’s ecosystem of business growth experts - followed by an evening of networking.
AI Academy
We're hosting three expert-led workshops to welcome AI as your latest team member and learn how to harness it at its most effective and powerful. Make AI work for you.
AI Academy: Harnessing AI for Positive Impact – Panel Discussion
Join us for a captivating panel discussion, featuring academic and corporate expertise, and an impact led AI-leveraging start-up, where we delve into the innovative applications of Artificial Intelligence in fostering positive social and environmental impact in business.
Circularity Now
Discover the trailblazers shaping a circular future presented by Plus X Innovation and sustainable design pioneers Batch.Works
Experts Live - Fundraising
Get expert advice in our 1:1 sessions in person at Plus X Innovation in Brighton. Members and anyone joining our free co-working week can access expertise from vetted experts to tackle your bespoke challenge.
Raising Your First Seed Round
Raising a first seed round is one of the most exciting milestones in the life of a startup. However, this challenge often comes with anxiety, unexpected hurdles and uncertainty. This intensive two-day innovation programme will give you the tools and knowledge to successfully raise your first round of investment.
Founder to CEO
Embark on a transformative journey with our first-time 'Founder to CEO' growth programme, meticulously designed to support you on your path to success. This 8-hour innovation programme hones in on essential behaviours and leadership skills needed to excel as a high-performing CEO.
Sustainable Smart Factory Tech Hack
Spend a day at the Plus X Innovation Central Research Laboratory, imagining new ways of designing products for the next generation of on-demand digital manufacturing technology. Work with experts in circular design and manufacturing to learn how to make products free from the constraints of traditional offshore mass manufacturing.
Sustainable Smart Factory Student Design Challenge
We’re inviting industrial design students from University of Brighton to imagine new ways of designing products for a new generation of on-demand digital manufacturing technology we’re piloting at Plus X Innovation.
Experts Clinics
Get expert advice at Plus X Innovation. Members can access complimentary 1:1 sessions with vetted experts to focus on growing your business and tackling your bespoke challenges.
Leaders Circle
Up to 20 Founders + Leaders from the Plus X Innovation community will join forces to create a powerful peer-to-peer network, provide valuable support to each other and respond to the pressing challenges of business together.
Past programmes
Stage-One Pre-Accelerator
Take your idea, test it, validate it and get it market ready. In just one day a week, for 8 weeks, our Stage-One Pre-Accelerator innovation programme helps you to validate assumptions and develop the critical foundations for market success.
Pioneers
Are you a purpose-driven individual or business looking to magnify your positive impact on society, the environment, or community? Become a Pioneer today!
AI Academy
We're hosting three expert-led workshops to welcome AI as your latest team member and learn how to harness it at its most effective and powerful. Make AI work for you.
AI Academy: Harnessing AI for Positive Impact – Panel Discussion
Join us for a captivating panel discussion, featuring academic and corporate expertise, and an impact led AI-leveraging start-up, where we delve into the innovative applications of Artificial Intelligence in fostering positive social and environmental impact in business.
Circularity Now
Discover the trailblazers shaping a circular future presented by Plus X Innovation and sustainable design pioneers Batch.Works
Experts Live - Fundraising
Get expert advice in our 1:1 sessions in person at Plus X Innovation in Brighton. Members and anyone joining our free co-working week can access expertise from vetted experts to tackle your bespoke challenge.
Sustainable Smart Factory Student Design Challenge
We’re inviting industrial design students from University of Brighton to imagine new ways of designing products for a new generation of on-demand digital manufacturing technology we’re piloting at Plus X Innovation.
Workshop sessions: Manufacturing 101
Are you an innovator, entrepreneur, or designer looking to take your product ideas from concept to reality? Join us to learn how products are manufactured at scale, and how you can successfully work with factories and suppliers to bring your product to life.
Workshop sessions: Kickstart Batch Production
Are you considering launching a product through a Kickstarter campaign or producing a small run of products to test the market? Join our batch production and crowdfunding workshop and gain the knowledge and skills you need to successfully bring your product ideas to life.
Workshop sessions: Introduction to SolidWorks CAD Software
Unlock the Future of Design and Manufacturing with Our Specialised Training! Are you looking to enhance your skills in CAD software and explore the cutting-edge world of 3D printing?
Workshop sessions: Introduction to 3D printing
Learn how to use the most popular rapid prototyping tool in the workshop: the 3D printer. From design in CAD software, through to preparing it for printing, and producing a printed part.
Experts Clinics
Get expert advice at Plus X Innovation. Members can access complimentary 1:1 sessions with vetted experts to focus on growing your business and tackling your bespoke challenges.
Leaders Circle
Up to 20 Founders + Leaders from the Plus X Innovation community will join forces to create a powerful peer-to-peer network, provide valuable support to each other and respond to the pressing challenges of business together.
Past programmes
Storytelling 101 for your business workshop
Join our workshop focused on "Storytelling for Your Business," designed specifically for startups and small companies looking to stand out in today's competitive market.
Navigating the Fundraising Landscape Panel
A panel-led discussion on navigating the world of fundraising for ambitious businesses, led by Plus X Innovation’s ecosystem of business growth experts - followed by an evening of networking.
AI Academy
We're hosting three expert-led workshops to welcome AI as your latest team member and learn how to harness it at its most effective and powerful. Make AI work for you.
AI Academy: Harnessing AI for Positive Impact – Panel Discussion
Join us for a captivating panel discussion, featuring academic and corporate expertise, and an impact led AI-leveraging start-up, where we delve into the innovative applications of Artificial Intelligence in fostering positive social and environmental impact in business.
Grant Writing Masterclass
The Grant Writing Masterclass is designed to help you effectively navigate the grant writing landscape and craft a winning grant application. Designed for ambitious startups looking for funding and pre-revenue founders across sectors, this programme is curated to help you learn how to write an effective grant application to increase your chances of securing funding.
Mastering AI for Business
This two-day program is designed to help you master AI tools to automate various tasks, saving you time, money, and mental bandwidth. Learn from the experts at Simpler with AI and discover how to leverage AI for your business's success.
Past programmes
CRL Accelerator
The CRL Accelerator offers an unrivalled package of support to hardware startups. Over the course of four months, the intensive and hands-on innovation programme focuses on product and business development. Support includes access to industry-leading mentors and an experienced product development team, alongside introductions to suppliers and manufacturers.
Investment Readiness
Embark on your next funding round with confidence! Our two-day innovation programme equips founders to navigate the challenges of fundraising. Gain a deep understanding of VC expectations, engage with investors strategically, and master the pitch. Elevate your fundraising strategy and position your business for success.
Raising Your First Seed Round
Raising a first seed round is one of the most exciting milestones in the life of a startup. However, this challenge often comes with anxiety, unexpected hurdles and uncertainty. This intensive two-day innovation programme will give you the tools and knowledge to successfully raise your first round of investment.
Sustainable Smart Factory Tech Hack
Spend a day at the Plus X Innovation Central Research Laboratory, imagining new ways of designing products for the next generation of on-demand digital manufacturing technology. Work with experts in circular design and manufacturing to learn how to make products free from the constraints of traditional offshore mass manufacturing.
Looking to fund or sponsor a programme?
If you're representing universities & government looking to accelerate innovation in your community or a business looking to align your brand with the innovators of tomorrow, talk to us today. Our award winning programmes include collaborations with Brunel University, University of Brighton, Innovate UK, The Body Shop, Kimberly-Clark, Pangia, Aesop and many more.
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