From Idea to Industry

Wherever you are on your path to industry innovation, we’re here to help. Institute is a Loughborough based resource for local business. We host events, provide studios and deliver a range of services and educational programmes for industry.

Studios

Institute provides facilities for meetings, workshops and events as well as providing rented studios for dynamic, strategically aligned businesses. Institute is situated within Loughborough town centre, 10 minutes walk from the train station. We provide desks on short or long term basis, a kitchen with coffee machine, parking, meeting rooms and exhibition facilities, fast broadband, exhibitions and events, marketing, community, business advice, lockers, CCTV, 24hr access.

Skills

Institute is often the location where we deliver Institute Research Lab's in-person educational programmes. Our education programmes empower a huge variety of business people at any point within their career, with the core skills required to remain industry innovators within a constantly changing technological landscape. Our education programmes often kick-start the development of bespoke business solutions delivered through one of Institute's network of business partners.

From Understanding to Solutions

Our education and consultancy programmes often enable the delivery of bespoke business solutions provided by us or by one of Institute's network of partner businesses.


Understanding Technology

Institute Research Lab. is focused on developing a broad understanding of the nature of contemporary technology, fostering individual understanding and agency in an increasingly complex technological ecosystem. The lab's business programmes nurture the ability to understand business priorities, define objectives and make informed strategic decisions.

Applying Technology

Institute works with business to transform this understanding into fit-for-purpose business systems. We have consistently found that those that have completed an educational or consultancy programme with us can more accurately identify their business challenges and quickly transform this knowledge into results with our solutions partners.

Better understanding leads to better conversations and consistently better results.

Services & Solutions

We provide a full spectrum of business services including consultancy, mentoring, automation, web, brand development and design. Our business support runs the full scope from initial idea, setup through system development to brand.

Business Development Programmes

We provide consultancy and mentoring in business practice and development. We cover the progression of practice, the nuts and bolts of running a business through to brand strategy and development. We provide consultancy, mentoring and think-tank style services for businesses, organisations and initiatives. We cover strategy, identity frameworks and business development. We are used to thinking outside the box and asking the right questions that result in the right frameworks for success.

We tend to focus on SMEs, as they are the collective powerhouse of the UK Economy and often do not receive the support they require. An external support structure characterised by objective analysis and targeted support is often a key mechanism for the success for businesses of all shapes and sizes.

Business Systems Design

We design business sytems from automation, AI integration to brand development and design. We have produced solutions for fashion houses, film, galleries, tech and sports giants through to tv channels and national museums.

Experience

Over the last 25 years, the members of Institute, have worked on thousands of projects that includes work for the following brands:

Adidas, Barclays, BBC, Bench, The Body Shop, Boots, The British Museum, The Carphone Warehouse, Cartoon Network, Cath Kidston, Clarins, Conde Naste, Daks, The Design Museum, Diesel, Disney Stores, EMI, Esquire Sport Magazine, Exposure, Fate Face, Fred Perry, Givenchy, Gieves & Hawkes, Godiva, Habitat, Halifax, Haribo, Harrods, House of Fraser, Hedkayse, HMV, The Independent, Kookai, Levis, Marks & Spencer, MGA, National Gallery, Procter and Gamble, Royal Court Theatre, Selfridges, Schuh, Sony, Superdry, TATE Enterprises, Ted Baker, Three Mobile, Tower Records, TKMaxx, UNIQLO, United International Pictures, Virgin, Vodaphone and Zoological Society of London.

We bring this experience of the design and delivery of a diversity of projects.

Events

We host events at Institute on a regular basis. These include media exhibitions, workshops, networking and seminars.

Open Labs

Open labs. are community events focused on the developing relationship between technology, culture and industry. These events bring the agenda of the virtual Institute Research Lab. into the physical world at Institute in Loughborough. We have recently launched OpenLabs where guest speakers discuss their personal take on aspects of new technology. These events are held at Institute in Loughborough town centre.

By bringing together a community with a variety of speakers we can all get access to different perspective on technology use. Different industries have different priorities and theses events highlight issues and solutions developed in one field that may help another. OpenLabs grew out of our networking events for our AI+ Digital Innovation for Business educational programme and are now open top anyone from any industry. Big ideas, good conversations and good food and drink.