Shout out to LCR Growth Platform!

12 February 2025

Delighted to be featured on the region's innovation and growth focused support platform

Growth Platform is the Liverpool City Region's business support service designed to support business leaders to grow and develop. It was established to help strengthen, simplify and coordinate the business landscape for the City Region. Their regular newsletter highlights the latest news, announcements and achievements of the city region - so we're delighted to be featured, sharing our great news story - that we're finalists in the Innovation category for the Liverpool City Region Culture and Creativity Awards.


Everything we do is related to innovation! With our focus on human-centred design processes, we help our clients (small to medium businesses, start-ups and university spin-outs) develop successful manufacturable solutions, devices and machines, and digital platforms - across the med-tech, healthcare, wellbeing, energy, environmental and consumer product sectors. We engage with users and customers, ensuring that whatever is being designed and developed is fit for purpose, usable comfortable, efficient and effective - to increase the likelihood of commercial success. By carefully considering human factors, as well as technical and manufacturing factors, the end result is much more likely to be desirable, feasible and viable. And at the end of the day, that's what innovation is all about.

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