Supporting growth and innovation

Successful innovation is nothing new to the University of Hull. We have a track record of supporting the growth and innovation of businesses and the regional economy, working with businesses across all sectors and sizes.

We'll help you develop your ideas, grow your business and connect with like-minded organisations and research experts. Find out more below.

Aura Innovation Centre

The Aura Innovation Centre (AIC) is a community that supports businesses of all sizes, helping them to accelerate low-carbon projects, drive green innovation and deliver clean business growth.
We help businesses to get their carbon reducing innovation ideas off the ground through specialist funding support, access to advanced testing facilities and the right expertise to help deliver your project.
Whether that idea is a new product, process or service, we’ll help you to deliver it.

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Flood Innovation Centre

The Flood Innovation Centre supports small and medium-sized businesses to develop new flood resilience products and services. The centre was established in April 2019 in response to climate change and a desire to drive forward commercial thinking in the flood resilience sector. It brings our world-class research in climate change, engineering, logistics, materials and computer science to Humber based SMEs.

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SparkFund

SparkFund is an innovation support and grants programme that will help you to improve or develop exciting new products, services or processes. If you’re a small to medium sized business in the Humber, York, North Yorkshire region with aspirations to move forward, then click below to find out more.

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Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTPs)

A KTP enables a business to bring in new skills and the latest academic thinking to deliver a specific, strategic innovation project through a knowledge-based partnership. Business partners benefit from academic expertise not otherwise available in-house, access to grant monies and the opportunity to gain a competitive edge in their market.

Find out more about KTPS

The Enterprise Centre

The Enterprise Centre supports new businesses with airy, open meeting spaces, a conference room with full audio visual support for board meetings, and a modern, equipped kitchen. You’ll also be able to take advantage of the University’s fabulous campus facilities, such as the library, sports centre, cafes, restaurants and bistros, corporate meeting facilities, and facilities to host dinners. All with easy travel and parking on campus, and set in one of the UK’s most beautiful campus settings.

Social Care Innovation Programme

Addressing the challenges of social care through smart technologies.

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Contact us

Get in touch

Enterprise Centre
The University of Hull
Cottingham Road
Hull HU6 7RX

enterprise@hull.ac.uk

Aura Innovation Centre
aic.aura@hull.ac.uk

Flood Resilience Innovation Centre
flic@hull.ac.uk