Service Offering
Following the ETTC model, ETTC @ Informatics first nurtures nascent spin-out companies with a package of high-input hand-in-hand business development services primary incubation. Following on from primary incubation, secondary incubation is more reactive, respecting incubatees’ increasing self-reliance. Secondary incubation also seeks to establish strong links between incubatees and the University with a view to ensuring a continued channelling of the very knowledge and technologies around which the incubate companies were formed.
ETTC @ Informatics occupancy deals are struck generally because an incubatee requires access to plant and equipment that, under normal circumstances, it would be unable to afford or secure the use of. The affordability and or accessibility of such plant and equipment will not necessarily improve as an ETTC @ Informatics occupant progresses through incubation. As such, it is crucial that ETTC @ Informatics incubatees are given special consideration with regard to their progress towards graduation.
As each incubate progresses, the service delivery evolves accordingly, though drawing on the same portfolio of provisions - Strategic Clinics and Development Workshops, access to networks of business professionals, potential non-executive directors, business angels and venture capitalists.
Perhaps as significant however is the availability of scientific services. ETTC @ Informatics facilitates relationships between the University’s Schools and incubatees with a view to securing the provision of a range of scientific services, equipment and expertise that would otherwise be beyond the resources of nascent companies.