Scientists in Norway have found that painting one of the three blades on a wind turbine black reduces avian deaths by 72%. If this “contrast painting” were to be implemented […]
It may seem strange to hear someone who is helping you to develop a business strategy say… how can our over-arching vision be to grow this business in a way that puts […]
VARA was delighted to participate in the Strategyzer Masterclass in London recently, delivered by Alex Osterwalder. www.strategyzer.com Alex is lead author of Business Model Generation and Value Proposition Design, which […]
VARA Innovation Specialists conducted a Competitive Feasibility Fund (CFF) commercial assessment for Letterkenny Institute of Technology’s WiSAR Lab recently. We are delighted that WiSAR has subsequently been awarded Commercialisation Funding […]
ICURe Bootcamp
VARA Innovation Specialists were delighted to again be involved in delivering customer discovery training to the third cohort of 16 research teams from 13 UK Universities participating on the North […]
ICURe
VARA was delighted to deliver the Customer Discovery training to the second cohort of 16 teams on the North by Northwest (NxNW) ICURe bootcamp in Manchester recently. https://www.icurenxnw.com/ We had […]
Not invented here? Does it need to be? Could building on the genius of others benefit your business?
It is now well accepted that R&D activities are a key driver of performance growth for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). However quite a number of SMEs don’t engage […]