IAAS | Geovation

Geovation’s innovation solutions have been running since 2009 and include: challenges, accelerator and mini accelerator programmes, workshops, Ideathons and geo sprints, which give the Geovation team an extensive track record in creating purposeful innovation to address globally significant issues using location data.

We believe that partnership is one of the best ways to drive innovation. With this in mind, we partner with 6 innovation hubs across the UK: Bristol, Edinburgh, Manchester, Birmingham, Cardiff and Leeds. Combined with our own hub in London, this network delivers an even wider reach and richer community of innovators.

Geovation is best positioned to deliver innovation solutions

Over 12 years’ experience, bringing innovative communities together to create impactful outcomes.
Ability to access Ordnance Survey’s premium datasets including Ordnance Survey’s NGD, Imagery and Terrain.
Access to other datasets on an ad hoc basis including HM Land Registry, British Geological Survey and the UK Hydrographic Office.
Broad academic network, bringing the best in class thought leadership and knowledge.

Expertise and capacity to generate sustainable impactful innovation.
Experience working with SMEs and early-stage start-ups.
Extensive innovator community bringing new thinking and ideas to tackle problems.
Extensive networks covering government, local authorities, large corporates and startups.

Geovation is the home of the geospatial start-up ecosystem.
Created approximately 10 years ago by OS, Great Britains mapping agency.

1800+

Community Members

Accelerator Streams

Accelerator streams

150+

Companies actively supported

Partner Hubs

700+

Events online and offline

Innovation workshops

Value proposition

Clarity of the value offered, customer alignment, stakeholder alignment and
strategic focus

Customer Journey Mapping

Better understanding of customers, increased customer experience, increased efficiency and improved decision making

Scenario Planning

Create improved benefits risk mitigation, strategic decision making, enhanced innovation and flexibility

Ideathon

A creative event which brings participants together and facilitates creative thinking and uses innovative learning practices to ideate and collaborate on possible solutions to given challenges and problems.

Generate, evaluate, refine and
develop ideas

Harness the broad knowledge of technical and non-technical individuals

Inspire many innovative solutions to a single problem

Ideathon stages

Identify and define the problem or opportunity

Team formation

Workshops for idea generation, evaluation, selection, refinement and development

Hackathon

An event where participants engage in rapid and collaborative engineering experimenting with new ideas and data, exploring new technologies, and building prototypes of their products in a short amount of time

Accelerate innovation and generate new
products, services, and solutions for various
problems or challenges.

Enable rapid prototyping
and generate a
competitive advantage.

Identify and capture new and
novel ways of
using data to fuel innovation.

Hackathon stages

Define objectives, scope and format

Team formation

Live / online hack

Live / online event for team pitching and judging

Geosprints

Geosprints provide geospatial capability building, data exploration and dedicated
technical and non technical support to generate, evaluate, refine and develop solutions,
using newly acquired knowledge.

Generate, evaluate, refine and
develop ideas.

Develop and strengthen participants skills and
abilities.

Capability building focusing on Geospatial
data

Geosprint stages

Problem space selection

Capability building workshop

Team selection

Ideation workshops

Sprint

Pitch and selection

Innovation Challenges

Innovation Challenges provide innovation for a specific identified and defined problem
using start ups, SME’s and individuals to generate value driven solutions.

Detailed exploration of a
problem.

Solve your toughest
challenges and seize
opportunities.

Harness the broad
knowledge and insights
of Innovators.

Innovation challenge stages

Identify problem

Deep dive

Call out to innovators

Bootcamp to assess and develop solutions

Pitch and selection

Accelerator Programme

An innovation accelerator programme aims to support and scale up innovative solutions,
through start ups, by providing constant innovation to themed problems for a
predefined set period.

Harness the innovative drive of start-ups working within your agreed pre-defined themes.

Rapid, cost-efficient R&D providing a diverse set of experimentation projects without the typical launch costs of internal R&D initiatives.

Access a range of exclusive open and proprietary datasets from OS and other partner.

Develop minimum viable
products.

Accelerator stages

Define programme
theme and format

Induct or scout for
start ups

Programme – covering
business processes,
strategic planning,
technological support,
finance, IP, use of data,
marketing and other
relevant subjects

Scouting

Identification and selection of prime start ups in the geospatial world using Geovation’s
experience, knowledge and capabilities.

De-risk innovation.

Benefit from the geospatial data knowledge and skills of startups.

Gain access to new ideas and technologies.

Scouting stages

Scout for startups using internal and external databases using enhanced geospatial startup knowledge.

Select startups against pre-agreed criteria.

Present list of startups.

Corporate Innovation

Helping companies de-risk their innovation capabilities by outsourcing it through start
ups allowing the introduction of new ideas, practices, technologies, or strategies into an
existing business model to enhance its competitiveness and growth

De-risk Innovation
through start ups.

Benefit from the identification and
selection of prime start ups in the geospatial world.

Gain access to new ideas and technologies, through start ups, that can be parlayed into competitive advantages.