Join us to discover how design-led innovation can de-risk ideas, improve manufacturing, and help Scottish businesses scale with confidence.

Design-led innovation in Scotland: Make it right, make it here, make it now.

Join us for this awareness raising event for Scottish manufacturing businesses exploring how strong design at the early stages of innovation can help turn ideas into scalable, manufacturable products and processes. The event will explore how good design, applied early in the innovation process, can help businesses reduce risk, avoid costly mistakes and move more effectively from idea to production.

Through expert insight, case studies and discussion, delegates will learn how design-led innovation can reduce risk, improve productivity, support automation readiness and strengthen the journey from idea to production.

The session will also highlight the wider ecosystem of support available in Scotland, including how organisations such as Highlands and Islands Enterprise, Manufacturing Innovation Centre Moray, Scottish Manufacturing Advisory Service and the Glasgow School of Art Highlands and Islands campus can help businesses turn ideas into practical, investable and scalable opportunities.

The agenda includes networking, an optional tour of MICM, expert presentations, a live or practical case study, and a panel discussion exploring how early design thinking can improve productivity, reduce cost and strengthen the path to automation.

The event is for businesses that want to develop better products, reduce wasted time and cost, and improve how they turn ideas into manufactured products. It will also be of interest to those supporting product development and innovation, including engineers, designers, and innovation leads.

These events are delivered by Scotland’s three enterprise agencies – Scottish Enterprise, Highlands and Islands Enterprise, and South of Scotland Enterprise – in partnership with NMIS, Scottish Engineering and 4c Design.

They form part of Making Scotland’s Future, a national collaboration supporting a strong, resilient and innovative manufacturing sector.

To find out what business support is available in Scotland https://findbusinesssupport.gov.scot/

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