Belinda Carp

Belinda grew up in the Greater Manchester area, and has spent more than four decades working with, and within, small businesses in the Greater Manchester area.

For 20+ years, Belinda worked in a sales and marketing role at a specialist publishing company, providing research-based business information on the global textile industry to senior executives in the industry and to international trade organisations, to inform their strategy for the textile industry. She played a key role in the development of new publications, all of which gave her a wealth of experience in such areas as innovation, strategy, research, leadership and management, and communications. Belinda has also written many research reports, magazine articles and blogs on textiles and sustainability, to raise awareness of environmental and social responsibility, and to educate businesses about the benefits of green innovation and a circular economy.

In her role as Innovation Specialist at the GM Business Growth Hub, Belinda supports organisations from early idea generation stage through to commercialisation of their innovations. Working across all sectors and sizes of organisation Belinda provides information and guidance on such topics as product/service development, the communications needed to undertake market research and competitor analysis, Intellectual Property (IP), developing value propositions, identifying routes to market and the development of innovation commercialisation strategy.