Forging Links: How Connections turn into Contracts

​Securing clients, customers or commercial partners for an innovation demonstrates validity, adds weight to your case for support and leads to early sales or contracts. Speaking with stakeholders, industry and the marketplace early on can help focus you in on the important aspects.

​This Forging Links event will showcase spinout stories of how engaging with the market has either laid the foundations to prepare them for starting out or has led to them securing contracts or investment.

​Attendees will have the opportunity to connect with spinout founders, innovators, founders, investors and the innovation ecosystem.

​Full line up of speakers to be announced soon - stay tuned!

​Who is it for?

​Spinout founders | Members of the Forging Links community | Entrepreneurial academics | Commercialisation professionals | Ecosystem Service providers