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Orion Innovations

Orion Innovations provides strategic and operational support to new ventures and growing businesses in the energy and environmental sectors. We work closely with organisations to enable:

  • New businesses and new ventures to start up and become established;
  • Emerging businesses to navigate the hazards of early growth;
  • Academic institutions to realise maximum value from their IP;
  • Venture funds to identify and manage portfolios that deliver exceptional returns;
  • Mature businesses to innovate and grow.
We also work extensively with public sector organisations at both a national and regional level to assist them in encouraging innovation and economic growth.

  

Innovation competence

We are experienced in the provision of a broad range of strategic and operational support that encourages and nurtures innovation.  Competences include but are not restricted to:

  • Innovation process improvement, and opportunity identification and evaluation, in the energy and environmental sectors;

  • Mentoring of academics and company executives, and the provision of interim management, in order to get new technology businesses started;

  • Brokering of investor ready companies with appropriate financial organisations;

  • Commercialisation support, from IP protection, through strategic and operational planning to investor readiness, market entry and commercial growth;

  • Organisational change and capacity building needed for innovation and growth.

Orion Innovations is able to deploy a number of bespoke, tried and tested tools, such as its ‘Business Heath Check’, in order to help customers realise their objectives.  

 

Eco-innovation experiences

Recent Orion Innovations’ eco-innovation experience includes the following:
  • Preparation of a feasibility study for a low carbon business cluster in the North East of England resulting in the development of a strategic and operational plan;
  • Provision of commercialisation support services to the Scottish Enterprise Energy Technology Centre, East Kilbride;
  • A  strategic review for the Carbon Trust’s national Low Carbon Technology Incubator Programme to identify opportunities for improvement of existing services and options for the future extension of services towards more mature ‘growth phase’ companies;
  • Provision of Outcome Managers for the Scottish Enterprise Proof of Concept Programme (a renewable energy cluster), providing mentoring support to the project teams, helping to shape and deliver the technology commercialisation plans, providing industry-specialist input, and identifying potential sources of funding and/or industrial partnerships;

Definition of a growth strategy for TUV NEL Ltd, a leading engineering consultancy and centre of excellence for engineering and mechanical research. The objective for this project was to identify significant growth options for TUV NEL within the low carbon sector that built upon the company’s existing capabilities and customer base.

 

 

Geographical area covered

Based in the UK, with representation in London, Edinburgh, the South of France, and South Africa.  Able to offer services throughout the English-speaking world.

 

Contact information

Orion Innovations

83 Victoria Street

SW1H 0HW London

UNITED KINGDOM 

 

Contact Persons :

Alison Cavey – Partner

Juliet Kauffmann – Business Analyst


www.orioninnovations.co.uk
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