Innovation Clinics in Copenhagen

16th January 2012

Nicholas Duggan and Chris Thompson are holding a series of Innovation Clinics in partnership with leading medical product designers and technology developers, Maddison and Tactiq, for fourteen Danish biotech companies and start-ups in Copenhagen on February 1st and 2nd, 2012 . These clinics aim to accelerate and de-risk the innovation process, drawing on the combined experience and expertise of the three partners.

Following the clinics, on the evening of February 2nd, Nick will be making a presentation at a reception for the Danish Medtech innovation community to be held at the British Ambassador's Residency.

This event builds on the huge success of the Innovation Clinics Viadynamics, Maddison and Tactiq delivered at Medtech Ireland, last year.

Sugru launches US website

17th June 2011

Sugru (www.sugru.com), one of our Viable businesses has just launched its US website. It provides the full range of Sugru products through US domestic shipping.

We have been providing business strategy, product development and brand and communications support to the Sugru leadership team since Feb 2009.

Nicholas Duggan at MEDTEC Ireland 2011

MEDTEC is the premier conference and exhibition for Ireland's dynamic medical devices industry. Nick is in the chair on the second day, is giving a keynote presentation on 'accelerating and de-risking medical devices innovation” and also co-hosting a series of hands-on clinics for start-ups. Please contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it if you are interested in attending a clinic.

It all takes place on October 5-6th 2011 at the Radisson Blu hotel in Cork, Ireland.
http://www.medtecireland.com/index.php?page=conference-workshops

Expressions des Bijoux launches new online jewellery business

September 16th 2011

Expressions des Bijoux, another of our Viable programmes, has today launched their new online jewellery website.

They offer a high-end range of jewellery from carefully selected small artisans from around the globe.

http://expressionsdesbijoux.com/

Snap Fashion get TSB funding

August 10th 2011

Snap Fashion today have been awarded £100k in match funding from the Technology Strategy Board.

To read more about the TSB funding please read their press-release here: http://www.innovateuk.org/

Snap Fashion is going to change the way people shop for clothes online by providing a reliable visual search engine. You can get a small preview at www.snapfashion.co.uk

Snap Fashion is benefiting from our Viable programme for start-ups. We are provide strategy support to leadership teams, helping them to shape and grow the business.

Viable

Viadynamics is bringing it's know-how gathered from many years supporting enterprise innovation in large corporates to small start-up businesses.

This is an idea we've been harbouring for many years. Bill and Chris talked about it back in their Fitch days. But now with more experience under our belts, Viadynamics has found a way to address the market failure that exists between high potential start-ups and world class innovation services.

The beauty of our approach is that a little bit of innovation advice can go a long way. With regular light touch meetings, interspersed with the odd intense intervention we can help a management team accelerate and de-risk the path to growth.