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Assessment of the potential for a bioincubator facility

A leading UK university was considering setting up a bioincubator facility to support both their own spinout activity and the regional biotech sector. Before making the investment decision, the university required information about the need for this type of lab facility within the target client base and the time that would be required to build […]

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Sales and marketing consultancy for a PSRE business unit

A public sector organisation in the human health sector required commercial support for an internal business unit that had developed a service based business on an ad-hoc basis over a period of years. The business unit has achieved significant sales but wanted to increase growth further; the unit management team engaged us to provide commercial […]

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Customer Survey – laboratory consumables

A large public sector organisation had developed a significant business based on catalogue sales of a specific type of laboratory consumables. Over the years, they had developed a large international customer base, but the team were concerned at a recent down turn in sales and wanted to understand if the trend was significant (caused by […]

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Investigating best practice in third leg activities.

A leading UK university wanted to investigate best practice in UK universities with respect to the provision of consultancy services by university staff. The investigation included a profile of the different policies relating to consultancy, how the process was managed by support staff and the nature of the consultancy client base. The first step was […]

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Product launch for a spin out company

A spin out company in the education sector retained us to manage the product launch of the company’s flag ship product. We recommended and the implemented a product launch event at central UK location. We then put together a marketing programme combining PR, direct mail, telesales and e-marketing to promote the product launch event. Over […]

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Commercial due diligence for a regional investment fund

A regional investment fund approached us to be part of a due diligence team for assessing applications to the fund. The fund’s aim was to provide support for the effective transfer of knowledge, skill and ideas from HEIs and FEIs to industry in order to stimulate the regional knowledge economy. Team Services undertook the commercial […]

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Market Research – holographic technology

Our standard market research methodology has two key stages; desk work to profile the existing market and identify potential customers and partners. The second stage is to set up discussions with key industry contacts to determine the appetite within the market for the proposed technology. A market assessment was requested by a group working in […]

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