ICE Project

Do you need assistance with developing new or improving existing products, processes or services?

Would you like in-company help to identify new market opportunities?

Have a look at ICE

Evidence from academics and businesses alike clearly shows that companies who innovate are much more likely to have higher productivity, and that higher productivity leads to greater prospects for long term growth and survival. ICE has been specifically designed with this in mind. Participating SME companies benefited from in-depth, hands-on, in-house support programme, designed to help them develop and sustain their potential for innovation. Over a period of up to a year, participating companies received expert help in, and improved their capacity for, identifying new ideas, products or, processes that will have greatest impact on their competitiveness and profitability.

ICE has offered a results-focused approach, which aimed to improve a business’s bottom line. Participatant companies had access to up to 12 half days, or equivalent, of tailored, in-house support, from innovation experts Team BDS.Team BDS has a significant track record in working with a wide variety of businesses particularly SMEs to identify commercially viable ideas and subsequently turn these into reality and profit.

At the same time the ProjectTeam has worked with participating companies to help them:

• Access additional specialist expertise and knowledge, for example from universities
• Access technology transfer & licensing opportunities, where appropriate
• Network with other participating companies from across the three regions
• Attend training opportunities designed by the programme team to support innovation implementation.

The eligible companies

• Are SMEs with between 10 and 250 employees (or full time equivalent).
• Have moved past early stage development into the growth phase of their lifecycle
• Are located in INTERREG IVA cooperation areas only. These are the six southern border counties of Ireland to include Counties Louth, Monaghan, Cavan, Sligo, Leitrim and Donegal, Northern Ireland. In the West of Scotland companies are normally be located in Ayrshire or Dumfries and Galloway.

ICE is delivering impactful outputs for it's participant SMEs within the regions largely focused on the management processes which underpin and lead to new and improved products, services, processes, business models and technology transfers.

According to the participant owner managers and endorsed by an independent evaluation, ICE is on course to increase company turnover by over €56 million, generate 300 new jobs and take nearly 40 companies into new export sales.

ICE is no longer accepting applications

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The ICE project is part-financed by the European Union's European Regional Development Fund through the INTERREG IVA Cross-border Programme managed by the Special EU Programmes Body with match financial assistance from Scottish Enterprise.