Science-to-Market Capability Programme

When your researchers finish a programme, how do you know they can actually do it and not just that they attended?

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L2M is a science-to-market capability programme for scientists and researchers engaged in commercialisation and/or building entrepreneurial skills.

Where others certify attendance, we certify capability.

For TTOs, innovation and commercialisation centres, incubators and accelerators, and the teams they support.

Questions worth asking

When your researchers finish a programme, how do you know they built commercial capability and not just that they attended?

How consistent is your mentoring quality across teams and cohorts?

What evidence do you bring to your funders that your programmes actually build commercial capability?

If a researcher can't find customers after 12 months of support, is that their failure or the programme's?

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What changes when your programme certifies capability

Three outputs. No other programme delivers all three.

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Investable Outcomes

Validated demand evidence, not desk research. A Buyable Story backed by proof that customers confirmed, not assumptions the team believed.

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Investable Teams

Certified capability, characterised know-how. Teams that can show what they can do, not just what they know. Capability that stays after the programme ends.

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Proof

A Public Investability Decision. Inspectable in real time, auditable after the fact. Evidence your funders can see and your board can trust.

How L2M works

A structured programme arc. Three phases. Every team, every cohort, same standard.

Know

Foundation Building.

Understand the methodology, assess your own confidence, meet your cohort.

One week of preparation before the sprint begins.

Grow

The Confidence Sprint.

Seven intensive sessions: problem framing, customer discovery, team power, solution value, competitive analysis, investment case, and the public test.

Learn by doing, not by listening.

Show

The Public Investability Decision.

Teams present their Buyable Story to peers, mentors, and evaluators.

Capability is demonstrated, not claimed. This is the evidence your programme produces.

What L2M delivers for your role

Upgrade your programmes from attendance to capability

Your programmes build knowledge. L2M builds capability. The difference is whether your researchers can do it when the programme ends, not just describe it. L2M gives you the evidence standard, the evaluation infrastructure, and the proof your funders need.

Certified capability

Graduates demonstrate, not just attend. A Public Investability Decision as your evidence of programme impact.

Consistent quality

Structured methodology replaces variable mentoring. Every team, every cohort, same standard. Quality stops depending on which mentor showed up.

Funder evidence

Prove to UKRI, DSIT, Horizon Europe that your programmes build commercial capability. Evidence, not narrative.

Portfolio visibility

See which teams are advancing commercially and which need intervention. Across cohorts, across programmes.

Capability that compounds

The know-how ecosystem grows with every cohort. Next year's teams benefit from this year's evidence.

"We already have mentors"

Mentors share experience. L2M builds systematic capability. Mentoring quality varies by person and by day. Certified capability doesn't.

"Our researchers just need more time"

Time without structure produces more activity, not more capability. 12 months of unstructured support produces the same result as 6.

"We can't justify another programme cost"

What's the cost of a failed commercialisation attempt? L2M costs less than one failed spinout in time, reputation, and opportunity.

Start with a pilot. One cohort. Measure the difference.

You don't need to redesign your programme to find out if this works. Run L2M with one cohort. Compare the outcomes to your existing approach. Let the evidence decide.

The best programme upgrades start with one cohort that proved the difference.

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Select one cohort. Up to five teams from your existing pipeline. Or run an A|B test.

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Run the programme. Know, Grow, Show. 12 weeks. Structured, evaluated, certified.

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Compare the evidence. Public Investability Decision. Before and after capability profiles. Proof for your funders.

Common Questions

How does L2M fit alongside our existing programme?

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L2M is designed to integrate, not replace. It adds the capability layer that most programmes lack: structured discovery methodology, objective evaluation, and certified outcomes. Your programme provides the domain expertise and network. L2M provides the evidence standard.

How many teams per cohort?

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5 to 12 teams per cohort. This ensures intensive, personalised coaching while maintaining the peer learning dynamic that drives real capability building. Larger cohorts dilute coaching quality.

What evidence do we get for our funders?

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Each cohort produces a Public Investability Decision for every team, before-and-after capability profiles, and a portfolio-level evidence summary. This is auditable, inspectable, and designed to satisfy UKRI, Horizon Europe, and institutional reporting requirements.

What does it cost?

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Pricing is per team and sits in the fee-for-service zone between lightweight bootcamps and fellowship models. It maps to institutional training budget authority and is justifiable as an allowable cost under HEIF, UKRI, Horizon Europe, and national innovation grants. Talk to us about your situation.

Can we run this with our own mentors?

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Yes. L2M is designed to work with your existing coaching resources. The methodology, evaluation framework, and platform infrastructure ensure consistent quality regardless of which mentor is coaching. Your mentors get better tools. Your teams get consistent outcomes.

What happens after the pilot?

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You decide based on the evidence. If the pilot cohort produces measurably better outcomes than your existing approach, we discuss ongoing integration. If not, the evidence tells you that too. The pilot is designed to let the results speak for themselves.

Ready to upgrade from attendance to capability?

Two paths. Choose yours.