Take your idea to the next level
Business. Service. Or charity. If you’re looking to push the limits of what can be done or delivered, Scotland’s Innovation Centres can help. Perhaps you want to improve an existing product, process or service. Maybe you’ve identified an all-new opportunity and the means to capitalise on it. Whatever your idea, whatever your sector, the Innovation Centres have the connections and know-how to take your idea from early concept to market entry.
How we support innovationHow we can help
Backed by the Scottish Government, with support from its enterprise agencies and universities, the £120m Innovation Centre programme accelerates technological advances by forging new collaborations between people like you and Scotland’s world-leading researchers. From day one, and at every stage of the partnership thereafter, we’ll work closely with you to understand your aims, identify the challenges and how best to overcome them
Your organisation could get involved in our ‘Scotland’s Countdown to COP26’ activities
If your organisation is interested in collaborating with us around our ‘Scotland’s Countdown to COP26’ activities, this is how to let us know. We’re very excited about the Innovation Centres event on 3 November 2020 in partnership with The Herald, and the events taking place throughout 2021, and are pleased…

Scotland’s Countdown to COP26 virtual conference
This Innovation Centres event will set down the challenge to Scotland ahead of COP26. Scotland’s Innovation Centres have teamed up with The Herald for a special, one-day virtual conference on Tuesday, 3 November 2020 to explore innovation, inclusive growth, cultural change around climate action, and ultimately how collaboration could achieve national net…


Embracing the Internet of Things in Aquaculture
The remote locations of salmon farms can sometimes mean that communicating data can be difficult. Heather Jones, CEO of the Scottish Aquaculture Innovation Centre (SAIC) discusses the benefits of IoT technologies for the fish farming industry with CENSIS, Innovation Centre for Sensing, Imaging and IoT. Aquaculture is already of huge importance to…

Emotech’s Olly the Robot – with personality!
We’re very excited about the latest innovative collaboration made possible by The Data Lab: Emotech’s Olly the robot. Olly is a showcase of Emotech’s AI technology and is the first step in demonstrating how conversation interfaces can be applied across various industry uses. In other words, Olly is a robot with…