Innovation Canvas
KTN’s Innovation Canvas is designed to help you create value from innovation and identify the changes needed to make your idea succeed. It provides a framework for assessing the strengths and weaknesses of a specific project, identifying the most urgent challenges to overcome, and prioritising what action to take.
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Do you have an exciting product, service or process idea but need strategic guidance to bring it to market?
KTN’s Innovation Canvas is designed to help you create value from innovation and identify the changes needed to make your idea succeed. It provides a framework for assessing the strengths and weaknesses of a specific project, identifying the most urgent challenges to overcome, and prioritising what action to take.
You can work on it as a team or individually to quickly evaluate an existing project, develop an innovative new idea, or inform a funding application.
How can the Innovation Canvas benefit your business?
The KTN Innovation Canvas can help you to:
● Accelerate the development of new products and services
● Make better-informed decisions
● Create more focused pitches and funding applications
● Identify and mitigate risks within current projects
Mark Apps, CEO of Organlike shared his thoughts; “The KTN Innovation Canvas is a simple but highly effective tool that helps bring a collegiate view and clear focus on challenges and priorities for successful innovation. It encouraged open debate and evaluation around a flexible framework founded in many years’ experience of successful innovation and the full breadth of requirements that enable innovation to work. This has given Organlike clarity, a shared vision and prioritisation of tasks for success”.
Clean Growth UK identified an opportunity to use KTN’s Innovation Canvas as a diagnostic tool in parallel with their own needs assessment tool for companies developing clean or green business innovation projects. Read more…
Start using the Innovation Canvas
Visit the digital Innovation Canvas now to start creating value from your product, process or service idea, and access other free innovation resources from KTN.
You can also download a pdf paper version of the Innovation Canvas for use in workshops and face-to-face project meetings, watch these introductory videos or read more about the background to the Innovation Canvas here.
If you are a university educator, incubator manager or business support agency leader contact our Innovation canvas team below for information on ‘train the trainer’ packages and purchasing Innovation Canvas workshop packs.
Further information
To learn more about the Innovation Canvas or give feedback please contact the KTN innovation team below.
Current Innovation Canvas funding opportunities
Design Foundations July 2022
Opens: 06/07/2022 Closes: 31/08/2022
UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £2 million for early-stage, people and planet centred design projects to influence their future R&D activity.
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Innovation Loans Future Economy Competition – Round Five
Opens: 20/07/2022 Closes: 14/09/2022
UK registered SMEs can apply for loans for innovative projects with strong commercial potential to significantly improve the UK economy.
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Innovate UK Smart Grants: July 2022
Opens: 28/07/2022 Closes: 26/10/2022
UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £25 million for game-changing and commercially viable R&D innovation that can significantly impact the UK economy. This funding is from Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation.
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