Shape the future of your place with the Future Towns Innovation Hub.
What we do
- We connect world-leading expertise from across faculties within the University of Southampton to external organisations.
- We bring people together from across sectors on specific challenges and issues.
- We help external organisations navigate the University to enable cross-sector partnerships.
- We provide access and signposting to an ecosystem of innovation both within the University and more widely across the region.
- We provide dedicated teams to support research and business partners throughout the commercialisation process.
How we do it
Collaboration, collaboration, collaboration! Collaboration is key to how we work at Future Towns Innovation Hub. Our focus is to bring together the right people to deliver innovative solutions to complex problems.
We take inspiration from: Collective Impact and the role of backbone organisations underpinning and driving forward collaborative endeavours; the Framework for Innovation and Double Diamond developed by the Design Council; and Civic Impact Framework from the UK’s National Civic Impact Accelerator.
By working with experts across sectors, we are developing a toolbox for place-based innovators to apply to challenges in their communities.
