Ian Holmes

Senior Innovation and Growth Specialist

RTC North Ltd

Daresbury, United Kingdom

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Delivering Innovate UK Business Growth in the North West and beyond. A practical background in Engineering, Sustainability and Grant Funding.

My organisation

RTC North Ltd

RTC North Ltd

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Leeds, United Kingdom

RTC is a mission led company specialising in helping organisations to innovate, compete and grow. Founded in 1989, our advisors have worked directly with 20,000 SMEs across the North of England helping them access new markets and commercialise new ideas, from design to manufacture.
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About me

Ian Holmes supports innovative SMEs in the North of England and across the Globe as part of the Innovate UK Business Growth Support. He manages the UK / Singapore AgriFood Global Incubator Programme and has supported SMEs on programmes in Europe, Colombia, Africa, China and Russia. . He has a background in Engineering and resource efficiency and has managed and written bids for both UK and EU funding applications.

Ian has supported SMEs in Tech Transfer and accessing funding since 2002. He has been an assessor for the EC. Previously Ian was UK NCP AgriFood and Bioeconomy for H2020 at Innovate UK.

In his youth, Ian served in the Royal Navy as Marine Engineering Artificer, before studying Engineering & Environmental Science at Sheffield Hallam University UK and Tampere University of Applied Sciences.

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