NoTosh have partnered with our regular Glasgow-based partners Snook to create StramashLabs, a new platform to help broker potential new businesses between the technology industry and business from across Scotland’s other sectors. Stramash has been supported by Scottish Enterprise and the Scottish Government.

Over the next six weeks we are looking for small and medium sized businesses in a wide range of business sectors who have a challenge that technology – and some bright thinking – could solve.

To help create some new enterprises around these problems, we’re also looking for smart technologists and creative designers with whom these businesses from around Scotland can team up.

Small and medium sized businesses, technologists and creative thinkers need to form a team – big or small. They must include:
1. a problem that needs solved from an industry partner outside the realm of technology and tech startups
2. someone who can build technology solutions

We’re encouraging potential team members to meet and work through the challenges they find at one of four StramashLabs around Scotland: design thinking camps to get to the root of the problem and source potential solutions that can increase the bottom line of the companies involved.

Ideas can also be submitted online and, if they impress the judges, the best ones could win an amazing prize of worth over £20,000, ranging from business development, marketing and pitching advice, to help turn their idea to a reality.

Any Scottish business, technologist, potential mentor or investor can sign up for a StramashLab, float their idea, form a team with an industry partner and a geek and present their idea to the judges.

Here are some ideas around the kinds of problems and solutions that we might find, if we can get the right mix of business together:
a) You could build a digital app that helps the food and drink sector reach new customers
b) You could design a range of textiles that charge the products the wearer carries
c) You could create an app that helps you measure how much electricity you are using
d) You could make an app for the financial sector that helps you measure how much you spend
e) You could manufacture a product that enables you to survey your own home
We are actively seeking a range of partners from different sectors who want to work with technologists. If you’re in one of the following sectors, please sign up as an industry partner!
◦ aerospace
◦ chemical science
◦ construction
◦ energy
◦ financial services
◦ food and drink
◦ forest and timber
◦ manufacturing
◦ technology
◦ textiles
◦ tourism
◦ creative industries

The competition takes entries online until 5pm on the 19th March.
What are you waiting for? This is your chance to put Scotland on the map.
Stop dreaming. Start Doing.
www.stramashlabs.com