SPONSORS

We are delighted to be able to thank the following for their generous support of the Rushlight Summer Showcase:

Sponsors

Lead Sponsors

Innovate UK

Innovate UK is the UK’s innovation agency. We work with people, companies and partner organisations to find and drive the science and technology innovations that will grow the UK economy.

The Energy Catalyst is a competition run twice-yearly and co-funded by Innovate UK, Research Councils and Government Departments to help UK businesses to grow and accelerate commercialisation of their world-class energy research & innovation. Energy Catalyst is focussed on addressing the global market opportunities created by the need for more affordable, secure and clean energy. In the first three rounds of the competition, approximately £56m in grants has been awarded to around 300 organisations participating in more than 130 projects. Thirty projects from Round 2 of Energy Catalyst will be showcased at Rushlight 2017.

Sponsors

Enterprise Ireland

Enterprise Ireland is the government organisation responsible for the development and growth of Irish enterprises in world markets. We work in partnership with Irish enterprises to help them start, grow, innovate and win export sales in global markets.

 

Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy

The Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) brings together responsibilities for business, industrial strategy, science, innovation, energy, and climate change. The Chancellor has recently committed a substantial real terms increase in government investment in research and innovation, worth £2 billion per year by 2020-21 to support research and innovation across the UK. In the energy sector, government has also committed to increase the UK’s innovation spend, such that by 2021 it will have doubled to over £400m per year. This includes support for initiatives like the Energy Entrepreneurs Fund, which was recently re-launched with a further £9m to support disruptive low carbon SMEs.

 

Venner Shipley LLP

Venner Shipley LLP is a full-service intellectual property firm boasting European patent and trade mark attorneys, barristers and solicitors. Headquartered in London with offices in Cambridge, Guildford, Manchester and Munich; the firm is modern and forward thinking with a long history of providing advice on all aspects of intellectual property law. Venner Shipley represents a broad range of clients, from individual inventors to blue-chip corporations, for whom the firm drafts and prosecutes patent applications, as well as providing legal commercial and strategic advice on exploiting and commercialising their inventions.

Venner Shipley works across multi-disciplinary teams incorporating experts who draft patents covering technologies that require specialists that include chemistry, biochemistry, materials, electronics and engineering. The firm also has trade mark specialists and lawyers enabling us to cover all aspects of your intellectual property requirements. Venner Shipley’s approach with their clients is to build long term relationships. They work in a flexible and responsive manner to ensure that clients get what they need in the most efficient and effective way possible; adapting to the needs of individual clients and often acting as an extension to client’s in-house counsel. Venner Shipley have a distinctive personality that fosters creativity, encourages team work and which makes their attorneys, lawyers and their services stand out from the crowd.

Venner Shipley are an award winning firm having won the IP Innovation Award Cleantech IP 2015 - AI Magazine, IP Law Firm of the Year Mechanical Engineering - ACQ Global Awards 2015 and 2016 and IP Law Firm of the Year for Cleantech - ACQ Global Awards 2015 and 2016.

Climate-KIC

Climate-KIC UK & Ireland is the national branch of Climate-KIC, a pan-European innovation agency focused on innovation that tackles the causes and effects of climate change. We run programmes for students, start-ups and innovators, including Europe’s largest accelerator programme focused on climate impact by cleantech commercialisation. Climate-KIC is supported by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), a body of the European Union.

Granted Consultancy Ltd

We are Granted Consultancy, UK and EU grant funding specialists. We work with ambitious businesses and entrepreneurs seeking funding for their company or ideas. We have expertise in securing funding for Innovation (R&D), Business Growth, Training and Infrastructure Projects. Our sectorial experience spans Tech, Digital, Creative, Advanced Manufacturing & Engineering, Education, Construction, Knowledge Transfer and Energy.

Since 2010 we have secured grant funding from £10k to £2m+ for R&D projects, business growth investments and major public sector projects. We have offices in Fleet St, London and Southernhay, Exeter. If you’ve got an exciting, ambitious project, we’d love to see you achieve it - even better, we’d like to help you.

Stephens Scown LLP

West country-based Stephens Scown LLP is an award-winning legal firm with offices in Exeter, Truro and St Austell. It has over 270 staff, including more than 50 partners, and is one of the largest law firms in Devon and Cornwall, offering a broad range of expert business and personal legal services, as well as expertise in a number of key market sectors.

Founded in 1938, Stephens Scown is consistently ranked highly in the UK’s top two independent legal guides, Chambers and Legal 500 and was named one of the Sunday Times 100 Best Mid-Sized Companies to Work For 2015. Stephens Scown also won Property Law Firm of the Year at the South West Property Awards 2014 and was named as having the Private Client and Family Law Team of the Year by the British Legal Awards 2013. Clients range from individuals to SMEs, FTSE and international companies. For more information www.stephens-scown.co.uk