Expert guidance, structured programmes
A connected innovation ecosystem — built into your membership. At Stowmarket Innovation Gateway, business support isn't an add-on. It's built into the fabric of the Stowmarket Innovation Centre. Every tenant and member has access to a layered offer of advisory support delivered by Hethel Innovation, structured programmes and national innovation networks — designed to help technology-led businesses adopt, grow and compete.
Your own innovation team. In-house and onhand
Hethel Innovation's advisers are embedded in the Stowmarket Innovation Centre and available to all tenants and members at no additional cost. With decades of experience helping ambitious companies scale, the team provides hands-on, one-to-one support across strategy, technology adoption, growth planning, funding navigation and market development.
Think of it as having a specialist innovation and growth team built into your tenancy from day one.
A structured programme for businesses ready to grow
SIG Innovate2Elevate is the Centre's flagship business growth programme — a structured, cohort-based programme designed to help technology-led businesses move from ambition to implementation.
Working alongside peers and supported by Hethel Innovation advisers, participants receive intensive, applied support across technology adoption, commercial strategy, operational scaling and access to funding. A forthcoming start-up programme will extend the offer to earlier-stage businesses and founders.
Connect to something bigger
SIG is not an island. Businesses at Stowmarket Innovation Gateway plug into a wider national innovation ecosystem that includes the National Hub in Generative AI, University of Suffolk, University of Essex and St John's Innovation Centre in Cambridge, post-doctoral researchers and applied innovation partners across the East of England.
These connections open doors to research partnerships, emerging technology expertise, new markets and collaboration opportunities that would be difficult to access independently.