Business Support and Professional Development
Looking to boost your business or elevate your team's professional development?
Here at Huddersfield Business School, we have a proven track record of working in collaboration with a wide array of private, public, and voluntary sector organisations.
Our expertise lies in facilitating business growth and achieving strategic objectives for local, national, and international companies. Alongside this, we offer an array of professional development programmes designed to upskill your workforce, enhancing their knowledge, awareness, and confidence.
Engage with us through our diverse event formats, which include local community engagement workshops and enriching business breakfast networking opportunities.
In 2023 we won the Times Higher Education Business School of the Year Award for embedding ourselves in the local region and supporting communities - click the banner to read more!
Professional Development
Explore our range of business growth programmes and enhance your professional development.
Work with our students
Our students are your future customers, inspire the next generation.
Collaborate with us
Our academic team of experts can provide you with innovative knowledge at the forefront of your industry.
Key Initiatives
Partners in Scheme
The Partners in Scheme is a network of organisations that support the School with providing content, time and expertise to enhance the curriculum, support student projects and strengthen external engagement and societal impact.
Huddersfield Health Innovation Incubator
The Huddersfield Health Innovation Incubator supports West Yorkshire pre- and early-stage innovators and growing businesses to develop, test and scale health and wellbeing solutions through access to product development expertise, workshops, mentoring and a collaborative network.
3M Buckley Innovation Centre (3M BIC)
Located next to the main University campus, the 3M BIC enables businesses to innovate, connect and grow through advanced technology, product development expertise, office and lab space, and opportunities for research, collaboration, recruitment and funding.
Health Business Innovation Centre (HBIC)
Based on the National Health Innovation Campus, the HBIC enables emerging health, life sciences and wellbeing organisations turn ideas into impactful solutions. It offers office and lab space and opportunities to co-locate alongside academic and clinical expertise.
Kirklees Top 100
The Kirklees Top 100 helps strengthen bonds within the Kirklees business community through collaborative opportunities and sharing best practice.
Newsletter
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Blogs
Take a read of our business blogs, providing you support and highlighting our business case studies and partnerships.
Case studies
Help to Grow Management
Peter Beaumont - Associate Director at Monty Miracle
"The Help to Grow Management programme has facilitated a growth surge of 362% for the business. It also helped our growth in mindset and allowed us to think about what our long-term goals are."
Student Group Consultancy Projects
Jack Woodhams - Co-founder of Menfulness
"The student consultancy gave me strategic options to help support our growth. I can't thank the university and students enough for their efforts."
Knowledge Transfer Partnership
Khatizi Bibi - Managing Director at Deluxe Beds Ltd
"The valuable insight received from this project allowed the company to access new research ideas as well as discover alternative funding options. We've made a lot of progress and there have been multiple improvements made to the company."