Commercial Development Services

We offer business support to small-to-medium enterprises through projects, but also manage projects on behalf of other public sector bodies. We provide consultancy ranging from expert advice, reports, marketing, workshop design and delivery, training and events management.

The support framework developed by CDS has four key pillars:

Pre-incubation and Incubation Support

• Support for business start-ups including hot-desking and networking
• Business mentoring
• Product design support

Innovation Management

• Development of innovation strategies and foresight
• Identification of business best practice
• Manufacturing measurement expertise and support

Exploitation of Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer

• Identifying and developing intellectual property
• Securing and protecting intellectual property
• Valuation of intellectual assets
• Developing exploitation strategies

International business

• Securing overseas knowledge based partners
• Support in licensing, strategic alliance or joint venture formation
• Foreign direct investment guidance
• Overseas ‘soft-landing’ facilitation

Research

• Visit ResearchNet - Coventry University's research website - for details of our research expertise