What we do
Your commercialisation agenda is moving faster than your capacity to deliver it. Funders expect evidence of impact. Senior stakeholders expect programmes that meet strategic priorities. Learners expect a quality experience. And your team is expected to do all of this with resources that haven't grown to match the ambition.
edio exists to close that gap. We work with universities and public institutions on entrepreneurship education and deep technology commercialisation training — from shaping an institution's training strategy through to designing programmes, producing the content, and delivering it in the room or online. The people who help you think through the strategy are the same people who build and run the programmes. Nothing gets lost in translation.
The result: programmes that cost less to run because they're designed to be modular and reusable. Programmes that satisfy funders because evaluation is built in from the start. Programmes that work for learners because they're grounded in evidence and designed by people who actually deliver them.
Core capabilities
Programme design and delivery
We design and run entrepreneurship courses, workshops, and cohort programmes. This covers the full arc from scoping and learning design through to facilitation and assessment. We work in-room, online, and in blended formats. Turnaround is fast — we've gone from first brief to first delivery in under four weeks where the scope allows it.
Content development
We create learning materials, case studies, slide decks, and curriculum content. Everything is aligned to recognised frameworks: EntreComp for competency mapping, QAA guidance for enterprise and entrepreneurship education, Kirkpatrick for evaluation. Case studies are developed to be locally relevant — real companies, real founders, real sectors — rather than recycled Silicon Valley examples that don't land with a UK deep tech audience.
Train the trainer
We equip university and institutional staff to deliver programmes themselves. This includes facilitation skills, programme methodology, assessment design, and ongoing support. The goal is capacity building: clients should be able to run programmes independently, not be dependent on edio indefinitely.
Technology transfer strategy
We work with commercialisation teams on strategy and training for technology transfer, investment readiness, and spin-out support programmes. This includes designing training for technology transfer professionals themselves — the people who help researchers commercialise their work.
Platform integration
We scope, select, and implement learning management systems and content delivery platforms. We've done this for multi-university partnerships where the requirements include blended delivery, cohort management, and integration with existing institutional systems. We make content work across delivery modes rather than treating the platform as an afterthought.
Modular programme architecture
We design programmes as reusable modules that can be recombined for different audiences and contexts. A workshop developed for one client's cybersecurity cohort can share structural components with another client's clean energy programme — different content, same pedagogical architecture. This is how we keep costs down and turnaround fast while maintaining quality and compliance with sector standards.
How we work
Three things distinguish how edio approaches programme development. The first is modularity — we design programmes as composable units that can be assembled and reassembled for different contexts, making production faster and reducing cost without sacrificing coherence. The second is standards compliance — we build evaluation into programme design from the start, not as a retrospective exercise, so programmes generate evidence of impact that meets funder and institutional quality assurance expectations. The third is speed — we're a small, focused operation where decisions happen quickly and there are no layers between the people who understand the brief and the people doing the work.