Dr Maria Nelson

With a background in innovation management, strategic communications and programme management, Dr Maria Nelson is the Director of Innovation Practice at Digital Catapult. With her team, Maria runs a portfolio of innovation and acceleration programmes that help small companies grow, large companies innovate and innovation ecosystems flourish. She has worked with numerous startups and multinational corporate partners. Passionate about fostering collaboration between bright minds from industry, startups and academia, she believes innovation thrives where three intentions combine: to solve real-world problems, to turn ambitions into reality, and to believe in your direction of travel one step at a time.

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Is there anything new under the sun for startup acceleration?

Digital Catapult is launching FutureScope, the new home for startup and scaleup acceleration, which will be a portfolio programme based on Digital Catapult’s best practice framework, and will provide targeted support for startup and scaleup companies at different stages of their lifecycle – from early stage startups just entering the market, to those who are focused on pushing the limits of their technology capability, and later stage companies looking at Series A+ investment and beyond. Here Director of Digital Catapult’s Innovation Practice, Maria Nelson, argues startup accelerators need to move with the times and take a more holistic, cross-market, cross-tech view to give modern startups what they need.