Overview of the Sustainable Technologies Business Acceleration Hub

The Sustainable Technologies Business Acceleration Hub was a three-year business support programme for start-ups and early-stage companies innovating in the low carbon and sustainable technologies sector. Funded by the European Regional Development Fund the hub helped fast track and grow over 120 businesses from across the West of England.

Watch the Sustainable Technologies Business Acceleration Hub programme overview video below:

Missed out?

You may be eligible to apply to our follow-on programme, the West of England Sustainable Technologies Scale-Up Programme.

Are you based in the West of England and developing low carbon technologies?

Or are you looking for ways to make your business and its products and services more sustainable?

If so, you could benefit from this fully funded specialist business and innovation support to help accelerate your growth.

Delivered by specialists in sustainable technology, there are two main strands to this programme:

1. The opportunity to take part in a sustainability workout, an online workshop which helps you scrutinise your existing business model to look at how you could evolve it to access new markets, adopt new financials model, find new value by streamlining internal processes and as a business become more sustainable.

2. A package of support from academic experts to help develop your technologies, products, services and business model. This programme is rooted in the Centre for Sustainable & Circular Technologies at the University of Bath and depending on your business needs we can facilitate introductions for you to collaborate with experts from the University of Bath.

It could also lead to further university collaboration and support through our Scale-Up Programme.

If you are looking for ways to become more sustainable as a business, we’ll help you to do this without increasing your costs.