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Axillium supports development of HMGCC Co-Creation Operating Model

For the past 18 months, Axillium has been working with the HMGCC Co-Creation core team to support the development of the Co-Creation Operating Model and associated toolkits, which will enable research and development between HMGCC customers, SMEs and non-traditional suppliers to be delivered at pace on unique and difficult operational technology challenges.

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HMGCC Co-Creation is a partnership with Dstl (Defence Science and Technology Laboratory), created to deliver a new, bold and innovative way of engaging the wider UK science and technology community in working together on challenges in support of the national security community.

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Axillium is supporting the development of the HMGCC Co-Creation Model to provide a repeatable and scalable innovation ecosystem that connects Challenge Owners with Solution Providers via a framework of collaboration, open competition, and accelerated commercial engagement – which when combined, deliver unique outcomes that have mission impact.

By leveraging both its experience and know-how in multisector collaboration between government, industry and academia, Axillium is sharing commercial expertise, structure and knowledge to support HMGCC’s Co-Creation Model – all while maintaining the focus on driving innovation at the heart of the project.

An Axillium spokesperson said: “Our work to support HMGCC Co-Creation has offered Axillium the chance to make a step change in our own journey and has presented an opportunity to share our knowledge and best practices within both the national security community and wider government teams.

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“By working with the HMGCC Co-Creation team, we are also developing new ways to complement and accelerate how our traditional clients target and achieve their science and technology ambitions.”

For over 15 years, Axillium has been a leading provider of innovation methodology and management services. By combining the individual strengths of the UK’s private sector, academia, supply chains and government, Axillium offers a framework of managed support, knowledge and expertise for multistakeholder collaborations allowing organisations to focus on turning ideas into knowledge-driven outcomes such as intellectual property, products and capability.

Axillium’s innovation management services have been proven across the private sector dozens of times, enabling the delivery of over £258 million of R&D investment and creating over 4,300 direct jobs for its clients.

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