About Impacting Business by Design
Design and innovation support for SME's with great ideas
Impacting Business by Design is a £4.65 million programme that offers SME’s the opportunity to develop new and innovative products with a design-focused university.
De Montfort University has joined forces with Nottingham Trent University and Brunel University to create a specialist programme known as Impacting Business by Design (IBbD) – working with SME’s in England to develop and commercialise new product ideas and innovations.



Enhancing knowledge exchange within your organisation
The support for your design innovation projects and capability-development is only possible because of the Connecting Capability Fund (CCF) Grant from Research England. It aims to improve the knowledge exchange capabilities between academia and industry to improve the country's industrial competitiveness. IBbD hopes to aid in this knowledge exchange by embedding expertise from academia to industry for the purpose of successful product commercialisation.



Meet the team behind Impacting Business by Design
Our team will work tirelessly to embed design capabilities into your organisation. With a wealth of product design, app development and project management experience, our team can support you from initial enquiry all the way through to your product hitting the shelves and generating revenue. If there is something our team do not know, we can work with external academics within our organisations or external consultants to embed the required expertise.
We are already looking at potential candidates for our grant scheme
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