PRIZE FUND

This year we are continuing the in-kind prize fund which was launched last year so successfully.  We welcome back many of last year's prize providers, as well as a number of new participants.  In these challenging economic times, we wanted to be able to add further benefits beyond the significant profile and standing that winning a Rushlight Award provides.

 

 

What this in-kind prize system involves is a menu of free services which the winners of the awards will be offered access to immediately after the Gala Awards Dinner on 1 February 2012.

 

While these in-kind prizes are not cash prizes and do not purport to be, the services that are being offered are directly relevant to the needs of companies developing clean technology solutions and so are of real value.  

 

 

 

Rules of the Rushlight Prize Fund

1. The prizes, although given a cash value, cannot be exchanged for cash or equivalent liquid funds of any form.

2. All the prizes have an expiry date and will no longer be available after the following year's awards dinner at the latest. Some prizes will have specific expiry conditions.

3. The terms of the prize are set by the donor and Eventure Media Ltd is not a party to the offer unless the prize is being directly offered by Eventure Media Ltd. The prizes themselves are an arrangement between the winner and the prize giver and Eventure Media Ltd is not a party to this arrangement except as a donor. The winner accepts the prize entirely at their own risk. Eventure Media Ltd accepts no responsibility or liability for the prize, the service provided by the donor or any direct or indirect consequences of the winner choosing and accepting the prize.

4. If, for whatever reason, the prize donor cannot provide the prize which they have offered, then the recipient can choose another prize from the remaining alternatives.

5. If more than one winner chooses the same prize, then the donor will be asked how many prizes they are willing to offer. If there are insufficient prizes provided by that donor to meet the demand, then the prize will be allocated on a "first come first served basis". If there is still a tie, then the winners' names will be placed in and then drawn from a hat. The winners who are not successful in the draw will be informed of the result and will have the option of choosing an alternative prize.

6. The order of choosing the prizes shall be as follows:

  • First to choose will be the overall Rushlight Award winner
  • Next to choose will be the other group category award winners
  • Finally, the direct entry award winners will be invited to choose a prize.
  • If there are any prizes left, then the invitation to choose a prize may be extended to those entries which are commended by the judges, commencing with the group categories.

7. Each winning entry can only receive one prize in total. An entrant can make two different entries, in which case each entry can attract a prize.

8. The decision of Eventure Media Ltd with regard to the running of the prize system is final and no correspondence will be entered into concerning it.

Prize List

The prize list is currently as follows, in alphabetical order of the prize providers, with details of the providers set out below:  

  • BIC-Innovation would like to offer you an "Eco Design Review" of one of your Existing or New product developments, working with you to design your product, improving and reducing its overall environmental impact. An Eco Design review will provide detailed and/or systematic analysis at specific stages of either the product development process or lifecycle e.g. eco-indicators; environmental effect analysis; environmental impact assessment; life cycle assessment; material, energy, toxicity, and life cycle cost analysis - value £2,500.  
  • Bird & Bird LLP is offering free legal services in any one or more of the following practice areas - employment, intellectual property, corporate, commercial and tax up to a value of £3,000.  This offer is subject to its usual client "take-on" procedures, in particular in relation to any potential legal or commercial conflicts of interest.
  • Business Doctors are pleased to offer a Strategic Health Check comprising a 2 hour meeting and a summary report setting out the discussion and recommendations. The review will examine whether the business owner has in place what we consider the fundamentals to grow a business, from understanding the vision, opportunities, capabilities to develop a sales plan and the right people on-board. We will guide the winner through our 10 steps to grow your business and summarise the key points from the meeting in a short report. The prize is offered in England, Wales & Scotland only for logistical reasons and subject to the availability of our team. This is valued at £800.
  • Cambium will provide a free, bespoke, Cambium ExchangeTM, which is a short-duration, high impact process that enables an organisation to optimise its strategy and plan for accelerating sustainable, scalable growth in its sales.  A Cambium ExchangeTM is customised to the needs of each client, but includes an assessment of the client's business, people and market in relation to their readiness to drive sustainable growth.  It can be completed within 10 working days from initial contact, subject to the availability of key client stakeholders.  This includes a detailed report of all the outputs within 48 hours of the ‘Exchange'.  This prize is ideally suited to organisations who already have achieved some degree of sales success, but now wish to build a plan that extends this success by accelerating the scalable growth of their business.  This prize incorporating the business assessment, market analysis and a ‘bespoke' one day Exchange ‘event', including a fully documented report on the plan generated, is typically priced at £7,500. More
  • The Centre for Process Information is offering a Technology and Manufacturability assessment for companies working in the printable electronics, industrial biotechnology and advanced manufacturing industries. Our assessment will:
    • provide a technology assessment focusing on scale-up, investment requirement and application potential
    • assess future technologies and the potential impact on your business
    • assess market and legislative drivers and their impact on your technology
    • identifying key partnerships and assessing relevant supply chains

    The prize, comprising two days consultancy from our team of experts, has an estimated value of £2,000

  • Clarkslegal LLP are offering free legal services in any of their areas of expertise - up to a value of £1,000.

  • Delta Carbon's partners will provide a full day of investor-readiness preparation for an aspiring start-up that is looking to raise seed or series ‘A' funding. The day will give aspiring low carbon technology companies an insight into investors' mindset in the sector and a tool kit to unlock investment funds - value £2,500. 

  • Eco Trans are offering a prize of free translation from/ to any language and any type of translation (technical, legal, website, financial, patents, business, marketing and PR, certified). The number of words will depend on technicality, language, timescales etc but will typically cover roughly 10,000 words. This prize is worth £1,000.

  • Eventure Media Ltd is offering a place in the Rushlight Incubator to an early stage company. This will involve a range of potential types of professional support on the basis of one day a month for 3 months. Value up to £3,000.

 

  • fd unlimited is offering free services for half a day a month for 6 months. These services could be:
    • Review business processes such as the sales cycle, purchase cycle and make    recommendations on maximising working capital efficiency
    • Set up a management information pack to track the key performance indicators
    • Provide a cashflow forecast template
    • Make introductions to some key people within our network who may be potential customers
    • Provide a financial model template
    • Provide sound advice on how best to scale the back office in line with growth aspirations for the business
    • Provide leadership to the incumbent bookkeeper or finance team

        This has a value of £4,500.

  • Fleet Renewables is offering in depth analysis in one or more of the following areas: -
    • Market analysis
    • Customer profiling
    • Market entry strategy review
    • SWOT
    • Competitor analysis
    • Funding opportunities
    • Technical review
    • Business Plan review

to a total market value of £4,000.

 

  • Frost & Sullivan are offering a combination prize as follows:

    1) 12 month User Licence access to one of Frost & Sullivan's 10 sector subscriptions (of their choice) plus 2 hours of consultation with an appropriate expert (growth strategy etc). This would be worth around £10,000.

    2) Seat at our annual Growth Innovation & Leadership congress - £1500

    3) Seat at one of our sector specific networking banquets - £500

    4) Market or Technology report of their choice - £3,000 - £5,000

    Winners who are SMEs can choose 1), 2) and 3) and large companies can choose 2), 3) and 4).  This total package therefore has a value of £7,000 to £12,000.

  • FRP Transition offer to search and select either an interim member of management or a Non-Exec Director for a company free of search fees - worth about £10,000.
  • Gill Jennings & Every is offering an IP Strategy Review. This would involve a meeting with a partner as well as a trade mark and a patent professional to assess and recommend how to develop the winner's strategy and plan relating to patents, trade marks and designs, including how the IP plan supports the business plan and allows assessment of the risks associated with IP. The output would be a written report. Value of £3,500.   
  • Green.tv and Large Blue are offering the following:

    Video promotion and distribution

    If the winner already has video we will place up to three videos on green.tv. The videos will receive promotion on green.tv's homepage for one week and will be housed, in perpetuity, within the appropriate content channels on green.tv.  The videos will also be distributed via our syndication network (total reach of 130 million unique users/month) including iTunes, MSN UK, The Independent online, Blinkx, Twitter, Facebook, Dailymotion and YouTube.  Prize value: £2,000

    OR  Visual Communications strategy

    If the winner does not have video, we will offer two days consultancy to help the winner develop a Visual Communications strategy. This will include a face-to-face meeting with the company, NB winner's office must be within one day's travel orbit from London or would require travel cost contribution.  Prize value: £2,000

  • Icon Presentations are offering two prizes for two different winners:

    1)     £1,000 worth of Editing Services*: editing of already existing video content supplied by the winner, still images, charts and/or Power Point presentations, with addition of Title and Logo Graphics

    2)     £2,750 worth of Video Production, Filming and Editing Services*:  we are happy to produce a short video of your liking, from your company's vision through the execution of a given project, to field work, explanation of a product or even a captivating advert!  One camera, one day of shooting, editing, including color correction, video effects and text = a captivating video to insert into presentations and/or on your homepage to boost your social media activity!

    * Please note that the prize does not include transport, licensing of third party copyrighted materials or consumables.

  • You've developed game-changing technology and won recognition for your work; now it's time to tell people about it. Life Size Media is offering a communication strategy consultation along with the necessary work in realising a suggested improvement of your choice. You'll receive a review of your current communication strategy and materials (including branding, website, public relations, social media and film material) followed by a written assessment and outline of suggested improvements (worth £2,000). After this initial stage we'll work with you to enhance your communications. You will benefit from dedicated input from members of the Life Size Media team up to the value of £2,000. Total prize value £4,000.
  • Liquid Accounts are offering a free subscription for one year to Liquid Accounts. Liquid Accounts has all the features of traditional desktop, buy-in-a-box accounting software, but because it is web-based you can securely use Liquid Accounts from any device with an internet connection. The application is easy to use and jargon free but still comprehensive and powerful, has a secure login procedure, is flexible, cost-effective and entirely hosted and supported in the UK. Value of up to £500. 
  • The London City Incubator (at Research and Enterprise -City University London) is offering for a prize winner to be taken in as a project from Feb 2011 to Feb 2012 and to have: an allocated MBA intern, access to our networks and potential mentoring from experts.
  • Numeritas is offering a full Scoping Session with a Numeritas Consulting team. They will take you through a step by step analytical process to identify the key drivers of your business and examine the best way to build a forecast to meet your planning objectives.  You will receive a detailed specification document as a deliverable that describes the requirements and approach for each element of a forecasting model.  This may then be used as the specification for a model build.  The prize winner will come away with greater insight into their business understand the drivers of their business and be able to make clearer assumptions for forecasting.  This has a market value of £5,000.
  • NW Brown is offering a corporate insurance portfolio review. This involves a full confidential appraisal of the prize-winner(s)' corporate insurance policies, to highlight areas of possible improvement and if appropriate to suggest alternative or additional covers. Value of £1,000. 
  • Planet Positive is offering an SME a free Planet Positive certification using their new online process. Your prize will include all the benefits of being Planet Positive, including: Business Carbon Footprint and Reduction Strategy; Sustainability Policy; Sales and Marketing materials; Behaviour change materials, including Employee Segmentation Survey and Green Office/Fleet Campaign; Monthly Sustainability Campaigns for employee engagement; Option to provide funding for schools or rainforest protection through the Planet Positive Foundation (UK registered charity).
  • A free grant scan, provided by PNO Consultants. PNO will visit the winner to discuss and understand their future projects surrounding their environmental technology and innovation activities. They will then provide a full analysis of principal regional, national and international sources of funding related to their activities. Then the key criteria, scope and timelines of these funds will be identified. Additionally, for each opportunity identified and where available, the following information is provided: a full description of the funding opportunity identified; details of the programme; key criteria; timelines; available budget where appropriate and estimation of the total effort/time required to secure the funding opportunity. Worth up to £5,000.
  • Qi3 are offering individual business benchmarking sessions. These sessions identify the gaps in a company's commercial proposition (both for engaging in sales activity and in gaining investors' confidence) and map out the actions required to fill the gaps.  

  • Sauce Consultancy - as specialist environmental communication advisors Sauce is offering three days of support to assist in the development of a communications plan to promote your environmental product or service. Sauce will provide guidance and strategic support in relation to market positioning to enable you to showcase your service or product - value £3,000.

  • Vodera is offering a package of Business Plan preparation services to help entrepreneurs with a great idea for a new product/service develop and maintain an effective business plan that would enhance their chances of winning both customers and capital. The latter is far from trivial with less than 1% of those who submit business plans to business angels or venture capitalists successfully raising the capital. Vodera's business plan preparation services employ a tested framework that critically examines the market drivers and competition, defines the end-user's benefits and reviews the technical capabilities of the team. Value £3,000

  • Withers & Rogers will attend the prize winner's office to undertake a thorough assessment of the company's Intellectual Property (IP). The aim of this process will be to assess how the company's business plan is supported by its IP.  We will explore strengths and weaknesses and advise on future IP strategy.  In particular, we will explore existing protection and how that could be bolstered by additional IP protection. Following the meeting, we will produce a report summarising our findings.  The meeting will last for up to a day.  Value £3,000.
  • Rushlight Mentoring Programme:  We are collating a group of experienced individuals who are offering their services as mentors to CEOs or boards of early stage companies for a fixed period of time.  Participants include:
    • Peter Jones, who is offering 3 days, value £4,000
    • Hugh Parnell, who is offering up to 3 days, value £2,000 - £2,500
    • Mark Thompson, who is offering up to 3 days, value £2,500 - £5,000

 

Prize Donors

 

BIC Innovation Ltd

 
BIC Innovation is a full service business consultancy undertaking a wide range of UK and international commercial project work for businesses, development organisations and academia. With a team of 16 highly experienced senior staff and associates, we can deliver comprehensive support from concept to market.

Our services cover market research, creativity, new product development, design, technology transfer, the protection and commercialisation of Intellectual Property and project management. Strong strategic skills underpin all our work.

 

Bird & Bird LLP

 
Bird & Bird LLP is an international legal practice with approximately 900 lawyers across our 23 offices around the world.  Our Energy & Utilities Group focuses particularly on the cleantech and alternative energy markets.  As well as advising larger players such as private equity funds, large multi-national energy users and power generators, we provide advice to earlier stage cleantech companies looking to develop their technologies.  We look to work closely with these companies, for example in raising debt or equity funding, in protecting their intellectual property and in documenting their commercial arrangements.

 

Business Doctors 

 
Established in 2004, Business Doctors are experienced business people providing practical support and advice to SME businesses, from strategies for sales and profit growth to staff engagement and help with accessing funding and financial support.

 

Cambium

 
Cambium specialise in accelerating sales growth of Cleantech, On-line and IT businesses.  More information on our approach and track record can be found at http://www.cambiumllp.com/ alternatively send an email to: sales@cambiumllp.com.

The Centre for Process Information 

 
CPI is a technology innovation centre that uses market knowledge and technology understanding to develop and prototype products and processes quickly and efficiently with minimal risk to its public and private sector partners.

 

 

Clarkslegal LLP

 
Clarkslegal LLP offer all of the services you would expect from a leading commercial law firm, from offices in London, Reading, Cardiff and Swansea.  We are genuinely different from other law firms. At Clarkslegal we understand that clients face new challenges, opportunities and problems. We understand that clients don`t want advisors who have little perception of commercial issues. We know that clients want advisers that are flexible and who take a well balanced commercial approach.  Our offices also host the consultants and scientists working for our subsidiary HR and Environmental consultancies, Forbury People and Forbury Environmental. This means that our people work in a highly innovative, multi-disciplinary environment, which is a world away from that of a traditional law firm.

 

Delta Carbon Capital Partners

 
Delta Carbon provides advice and investment for the low carbon economy.  We work exclusively with low carbon technology businesses - particularly early-stage businesses - helping them to develop "bankable" and "backable" propositions.  We manage a network of investors with an appetite for low carbon technology.  We are currently raising an investment fund for early-stage low carbon technology investment.

 

Eco Trans

 

Eco Trans is a translation company dedicated to the renewable energy and environmental sectors. Some of the largest renewable energy companies in the world trust us with their translations.  We have the capacity for large projects and can meet tight deadlines at affordable rates. Eco Trans only uses professional, qualified and experienced linguists, all of whom have minimum of a degree in translation and extensive experience in the renewable energy sector. All Eco Trans project managers are qualified through the Association for Project Management.  With experience in translating anything from websites, financial documents to wildlife impact studies and highly technical and legal documentation, the client can be assured that the translation job is in good hands. We treat our customer confidentiality very seriously.  We are one of very few translation companies who are independently UKAS certified with ISO 9001:2008 and ISO 14001:2004 and the European standard for quality translation BS EN 15038.  Other services include: Interpreting, Desktop Publishing, Subtitling, Transcription, Voiceovers, Proof reading.  At Eco Trans we're passionate about language, communication and creating a cleaner more sustainable world.

 

Eventure Media Ltd

 
Eventure Media provides quality and informative events and support services that are specifically designed to help to promote and encourage the development and deployment of clean technology solutions throughout the UK and Ireland.  Under the Rushlight brand, we run the leading awards for the development of clean technology solutions, the Clean Technologies Show which bring together cleantech companies, investors, adopters, advisers and other market supporters,  investor briefings, networking events and other topical programmes in the cleantech sector.  To provide direct assistance, a handful of cleantech companies are supported in the virtual cleantech incubator.

 

fd unlimited

 

fdu group provides companies of all sizes with access to the finance expertise they need at every stage in their business lifecycle. Through its innovative online portal, Finance Gofer, businesses and finance professionals have access to an on-demand resources they need to respond effectively to the day-to-day challenges of running a growing business.  

Finance Gofer offers a range of financial planning tools and services, including the recently launched GoForecast, a new online forecasting and professional support service, for accurate modelling and forecasting to plan for  business growth, from as little as £200 a month.

 

Fleet Renewables 

Fleet renewables is a business dedicated to the commercialisation of new and innovative renewable energy devices. We partner with individuals and companies with viable products and facilitate access to customers and the market.

 

Frost & Sullivan

 
Frost & Sullivan is a global growth consulting company with 50 years of expertise in 10 different industry sectors including Energy and Environmental Technologies.  Frost & Sullivan's 1800 industry experts are based in over 40 offices worldwide, with an emphasis on providing local industry expertise and analysis of new market opportunities for corporate growth.  The company is a the world leader in Growth Consulting and the integrated areas of technology research, market research, economic research, corporate best practices, training, customer research, competitive intelligence, and corporate strategy.

 

FRP Transition

 
FRP Transition is a trading division of FRP Advisory LLP and is a specialist interim management provider.  As the name suggests, the focus is on businesses ‘in transition', a definition covering start-up, change of ownership, growth, entry into new markets, operational and organisational redesign and  turnaround & restructuring. .   Our interim managers operate at board level in line management or programme management roles and include executives who have experience of ‘C'-level roles outside the UK - particularly West, Central and Eastern Europe.

 

Gill Jennings & Every LLP

 
Gill Jennings & Every LLP is a firm of European Patent & Trade Mark attorneys and is MIP's "UK Patent Prosecution Firm of the Year 2010" and one of very few IP specialist firms top-ranked by all three IP market endorsers. We're over 100 strong, and in 2012, 100 years old (an Olympic celebration!). Rather than just rest on attorney tradition, we have a progressive and very business-minded approach to IP advice (patents, designs, trade marks/brands etc). We do about half our work with UK organizations and entrepreneurs including Universities/spin-outs, early stage/SMEs, investors and household names.  The other half is for multi-nationals and law firms in the US, Japan and the rest of Europe.

 

Icon Presentations Ltd

 
Icon Presentations Limited is a Digital Video and Media Production Company.  Video is an excellent medium to promote you or your business to your network.  With technical advancements, now allowing video distribution through the internet, and mobile devices, your message can be seen by more people, easier than ever before.  Icon Presentations provides its services in all areas of video production, post-production and offers complete Audio Visual Support for Event Professionals. Our accommodating team has the all round knowledge and experience to ensure that your project is completed to your expectations. We are proud of our personal service, extraordinary flexibility that allows us to work to the tightest deadlines, and the creative projects that we have completed and delivered.

 

Life Size Media

 
Life Size Media specialise in producing informed, engaging communication materials that bring your work to life. Whether it's exciting the press with your latest development or highlighting the significance of what you do with a promotional film, we'll put your work at the forefront of the cleantech sector. Life Size Media are a creative team that work exclusively with enterprises whose main output generates environmental or social benefits.  Life Size Media provide a holistic approach to communications with an emphasis on conveying often complex messages in an innovative, engaging and accessible style. We offer services in public relations, branding, web-design, promotional film, print, presentations, social media and carbon services.

 

Liquid Accounts

 

 
Liquid Accounts is one of the market leaders of the online accounting software industry, creating jargon-free, user-friendly accounting systems.   We work with a number of renewable energy and sustainable goods companies to help them streamline their business and accounting processes, save time and money and cut down on the amount of paper and waste generated. 

 

The London City Incubator (at Research and Enterprise -City University London)

Enabling early-stage high growth start-ups to get ready for investment is the role of the London City Incubator, which helps launch innovative new ventures and trains the next generation of entrepreneurial managers.  Our mandate is to accelerate the launch of innovative products and services with great commercial potential into their markets, lowering risk and raising the chances of successful investment fostering an environment in which our MBA and other interns put to practice and further develop their technical and commercial skills to become the managers and directors of the immediate future.  We do this by adding value through collaborative consulting in market research, strategy and business development and investment readiness.  Please find more on: www.city.ac.uk/business/incubator/lci.html.

 

 

Numeritas

 

Numeritas' core area of business lies in the development of decision making and analytical tools developed in Excel using our tried and tested methodologies. We deliver fit-for-purpose solutions to our clients in forecasting, reporting, data manipulation and analysis as well as helping to manage risk through model risk assessments, staff coaching and training. We have technical expertise not only in model design and model build but also in codifying management's understanding of their business and its risks, project management and model risk management. Application of these skills will allow improvement of a company's risk management, capital management and decision making capabilities.

 

NW Brown

 
NW Brown Insurance Brokers Limited has over 30 years experience in finding insurance solutions to protect your business.  We work closely with businesses from start ups, to mature companies in order to fully understand their specific and individual insurance requirements.  We continuously review developments in the insurance market to ensure our clients receive up to date advice.  We appreciate that for an insurance policy to work for you, it is essential that claims are handled effectively.  Our dedicated claims handlers can provide immediate post loss advice and arrange visits where required.

 

 

Planet Positive

 
Planet Positive is an international certification and environmental management system for businesses, products, buildings and services.  We go beyond compliance into proof of action, behaviour change and encouraging business to support local sustainability projects and Amazon rainforest protection.  We work with large corporations such as Land Securities and Deloitte through to hundreds of SMEs.  We have built an online Business Certification process specifically for SMEs which removes the need for consultants and makes sustainability fast, simple and cost-effective.  Planet Positive Buildings, including distribution centres for M&S and Sainsbury's, have won multiple awards for their low carbon innovation and community engagement.

 

 

PNO Consultants

 
We are Europe's leading full-service independent grant consultancy and the only one able to provide services at the same service level throughout the continent.

The world of grants is extremely sophisticated, often challenging and always demanding in terms of resources. We understand it in all of its complexity. We have in-house specialists in a wide variety of fields, from life sciences to aeronautics, plus all the necessary skills to act as an independent partner for any organization seeking public funding.

We combine an understanding of the dynamics of clients´ activities and ambitions with insights into key societal issues that are supported by government funding. The net effect of our contribution is to reduce your workload, increase your return on investment and shorten your time to market.

We provide grant consultancy services throughout Europe to a wide range of clients from SMEs to multinational companies, non-profit organisations, technological platforms, multi-stakeholder partnerships, universities and governments. We employ 400 specialists and have 30 offices in 12 European countries. We operate as CiaoTech in Italy.

 

Qi3

 
Qi3 offers technology market evaluation for corporate venturing organisations and technology companies; hands-on business development support; and fully comprehensive analysis and advice to companies seeking to improve their performance. We enjoy the buzz of working with New Technology Enterprises with novel technologies, from "virtual companies" with no full-time staff to companies with 50 and over. We also get a kick out of helping divisions of diversified Technology Corporations grow in to new application and geographical markets.  The new Qi3 Accelerator programme provides risk investment supporting companies to rapidly commercialise their products.  We offer funds and commercial management support to businesses in the environmental sustainability and security domains in two modes: "Accelerate to Market" for companies seeking rapid market entry and "Accelerate to Growth" for companies with potential for rapid revenue growth. Qi3 has allocated a significant fund to support a limited number of projects, to ensure that ideas are commercialised to their full potential.

 

Rushlight

 
Rushlight is the brand of Eventure Media covering all of the cleantech sector.  It includes Rushlight Events and the Rushlight incubator.  Rushlight Events inform and support cleantech companies, investors, advisers, public and third sector, networks and critically the adopters of cleantech solutions.  The incubator is designed to provide market-leading and personal assistance to select businesses to facilitate their route to market.

 

Sauce Consultancy

 
Sauce Consultancy is a specialist environmental communications company with significant experience of working in the waste, recycling and environmental fields. We work with our clients to develop and deliver simple messages around complex issues, providing a bridge between the technical and the communications requirements of projects.  "Action speaks louder than words" is our maxim for a very good reason - we deliver campaigns, consultation and communications using a variety of innovative tools and techniques and have the knowledge and skills to deliver messages with intelligence, precision and impact.

 

Vodera

 
Vodera is a specialist provider of innovation management services to R&D intensive organisations across Europe interested in technology commercialisation for business growth and impact to market and/or society. The company is based in London, UK and supports its clients and collaborators during all stages of technology development and exploitation, from proof of concept through to market launch. Vodera delivers its services to multinational corporations, start-ups and universities either directly or as part of regional and national government agency initiatives.

 

Withers & Rogers

 
Withers & Rogers LLP is one of the leading intellectual property law firms in the UK and Europe. We specialise in the protection and enforcement of IP rights, including patents for inventions, trade marks and design rights. With more than 50 experts with specialist experience in many industry sectors, we enjoy working closely with our clients so we can advise them on the best intellectual property strategy to meet their needs.  Our Clean Technology Group has vast experience advising companies in the clean tech sector on protection of their technologies and brands. Our experts cover areas as diverse as wind farm technologies, hybrid vehicles, bio fuels and waste water treatment.