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Innovation consultancy

Fast-track your innovation, from concept to product.

We work with research-active companies, universities, research technology organisations and innovation agencies to turn research and development into market-ready products: finding the right problem, winning the funding and making the results count.

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What we do for you

One partner from first idea to lasting impact.

Three stages, twelve services, one joined-up team. Start wherever you are.

  1. Identify solutions

    We work with clients to identify solutions to problems and challenges, supporting concept generation, proof of concept and stakeholder engagement.

  2. Secure funding

    We identify funding opportunities that align with your R&D strategy and help build the right consortium and a credible proposal.

  3. Maximise impact

    We focus on dissemination and exploitation activities to maximise stakeholder engagement, awareness and wider impact.

How an engagement works

Practical, hands-on and accountable, with your team at every step.

  1. Understand

    We start with your goals, your technology and your constraints, and an honest view of where you stand today.

  2. Shape

    Together we frame the opportunity, the evidence it needs and the route to get there: partners, funding and milestones.

  3. Deliver

    We do the hard yards alongside your team: research, proposals, consortia, project management and IP.

  4. Make it count

    We plan exploitation and dissemination from the start, so the results reach the people who can use them.

The experience behind our advice

  • 12 specialist services in one team, from concept development to commercialisation and trade expansion
  • 20+ years of hands-on research and development in academic and start-up settings, with commercial, IP and funding expertise
  • £m of investment and funding sourced for SMEs, universities, RTOs, innovation agencies, and national infrastructure programmes
  • UK + national and international consortia, and the delivery of bilateral trade and innovation programmes

From Alta Semita’s own account of its services and track record. Clients are not named.

SME Ninja

Diagnose. Develop. Commercialise.

SME Ninja, our platform for innovative UK companies on funded programmes, shows a company where it stands and what to do next, then turns the work into evidence funders and investors can trust.

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SME Ninja results for an illustrative company: “Example Innovations Ltd is at Explore”, stage 1 of 7 with moderate confidence, its strengths and a place to build, and a stage trail from Explore to Scale.

Why organisations work with us

  • Science and commerce in one team

    Decades of hands-on R&D in academic and start-up settings, with the commercial, IP and funding expertise to take it further.

  • Fluent in funders

    We know what assessors look for, how competitions are scored and how to build a consortium that can deliver.

  • Hands-on, not hands-off

    We work inside your project, alongside your team, and stay accountable for what we deliver.

  • International by design

    Experience of bilateral trade and innovation programmes, and the networks to open doors abroad.

Who we work with

  • Research-active companies
  • Universities
  • Research technology organisations
  • Innovation agencies

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