TUS Midwest provides support to innovation and enterprise in the region using a wide variety of tools. Together, these mechanisms form the TUS Midwest Enterprise Ladder. The Enterprise Ladder is a unique approach to the provision of support to enterprise, through which the resources of the Institute – academic, research, facilities and finance – are combined together in an integrated way to make the right type of support available to an enterprise in the right way at the right time. Innovation & Enterprise at TUS Midwest and its enterprise support activities are under the direction of the Institute’s Head of Innovation & Enterprise Manager, Gillian Barry.