Innovation ecosystem platform


Analysis-led insight

Innovation is no longer optional and intelligence is key. Novel’s Innovation Ecosystem AI drives data-led analysis, growth and intelligence via a digital hub to support strategic planning and regional growth in Liverpool City Region.

How does it work?

Novel AI helps business find support and governments to deliver support that empowers local businesses and policymakers to drive growth and innovation. It fuses a wealth of publicly-available data and feeds to provide dynamic real time mapping of regional economies, giving businesses and government insights into what’s happing in the supply chains and where the strengths, opportunities, weaknesses and wins are. 

Novel-AI automates the business growth programme, automating the indemnification, onboarding and evidencing of SME clients.

This is not a one front door. This is an AI-agent that proactively works for each and every SME looking for opportunities, bringing them directly to businesses’ attention. 

For governments it provides a single platform for intervention and programme monitoring, compliance and output and outcome capture. It automates data interpretation for benchmarking, gap analysis, trend detection and performance correlation and includes an AI-generated ‘funding finder’ that matches businesses with tailored funding opportunities. 

Developed as part of the Horizons programme, in collaboration with LCR Combined Authority, the hub centralises essential documentation, streamlines workflows, facilitates cross-sector partnerships and measures outcomes to support decision making, improve business and policy productivity and create high value jobs.