RISE and Shine Club Innovation Club

The RISE and Shine Club was created for the RISE community of active innovators – providing a space for a monthly infusion of idea sharing, problem solving, collaboration and best practice.

Each month, RISE members meet at venues across West Sussex for three hours to network and support each other with challenges and opportunities and take inspiration from our ‘Innovation in Action’ session which showcased businesses from across the region who have successfully innovated in these challenging times.

Over 200

businesses supported

500+ business reached through events

Over

2,300 of hours of support received

6 programmes developed

52 innovation audits provided 63 workshops/ masterclasses delivered

54 academics taken part, from 13 schools

15 new jobs created*

40 new products or services supported*

12

24 R&D collaborative projects

3 business innovation workshops run for network partners innovation clinics ran in partnership with Business and IP Centres (BIPC), in Worthing, Horsham and Crawley, supporting 28 West Sussex-based businesses

*As per summative assessments results 2023