Project Status - Completed
- Start Date: October 2020
- End Date: March 2021
- Local Growth Fund allocation: £230,000
- Awarded to: Arts University Bournemouth (AUB)
Project Summary
The Innovation Suite project has used £230,000 of Dorset LEP Local Growth Fund allocation and £65,000 in Arts University Bournemouth (AUB) match funding to create a new suite within the Innovation Studio, another Dorset LEP project built at AUB.
The project has refurbished an existing administrative space to create an Innovation Suite for collaborative work/social space and specialist digital and clean digital fabrication equipment supplied by the Innovation Resources project.
The Innovation Suite is a dedicated workshop and digital fabrication equipment space that will be used by local businesses, start-ups, CPD delivery and post graduate students working in the innovative creative, cultural, engineering and manufacturing sectors.
The Innovation Suite became operational in August 2021.
Predicted outcomes:
- 15 Jobs created/safeguarded
- 45 Enterprises receiving non-financial support
- £1.3m GVA by FY 2025, £4.5m by FY 2027
- 288m2 Learning Space Created
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