Business Support
Solutions - As
a business you make your own success but government could help to
overcome some barriers. Each year the DTI invests over £400m
assisting you through grants, loans and subsidised
consultancy. The Business Support Solutions are part of the
DTI's range of tailored business support. They are designed to
meet different stages of your business's development and growth.
Other useful links on this site:
Advice on managing research and development
projects,
Advice on Developing new products and services
Energy - Energy Group
is committed to working with others to ensure competitive energy
markets while achieving safe, secure and sustainable energy
supplies. Its role is to set out a fair and effective framework in
which competition can flourish for the benefit of customers, the
industry and suppliers, and which will contribute to the
achievement of the UK's environmental and social objectives. These
include the alleviation of fuel poverty, and maintaining the
security and diversity of the UK energy sources.
EUREKA - Eureka
supports the competitiveness of European companies through
international collaboration, in creating links and networks of
Innovation.
Foresight -
Foresight,
and its associated horizon scanning centre aims to provide
challenging visions of the future, to ensure effective strategies
now. It does this by providing a core of skills in science-based
futures projects and unequalled access to leaders in government,
business and science.
Framework 6 Programme -
The sixth framework
programme is the frame for EU activities in the field of science,
research and innovation. The main objective of FP6 is to
contribute to the creation of the European Research Area (ERA) by
improving integration and co-ordination of research within Europe
and at the same time strengthening the competitiveness of the
European economy.
GlobalWatchOnline
- DTI
Global Watch Service provides support dedicated to helping UK
businesses improve their competitiveness by identifying and
accessing innovative technologies and practices from overseas.
Other links that can be found on this website are:
Technology Partnering and the Global
Watch magazine.
How do I get my
idea to Market? - A
useful document exploring your concept, developing your business
plan, starting your business and accessing finance.
Innovation.gov - This
website contains the Innovation Report which looks at the
contribution that innovation can make to driving up UK
productivity and to achieving the vision of the UK as a key
knowledge hub in the global economy. Building on progress made in
previous innovation-focussed white papers it proposes action on
those policies that will encourage UK businesses to increase their
investment in new products and services with the aim of
continuously increasing the value added. Other links that can be
found on this website are: R&D Scoreboard, Living Innovation and
the Lambert Agreements.
Knowledge Transfer Partnerships
- Knowledge Transfer Partnerships enable private and public sector
research organisations to apply their research knowledge to
important business problems.
At this site you can obtain
expertise, skills or technology from the UK knowledge base.
NMS - The
National Measurement System (NMS) is the UK's national
infrastructure of measurement laboratories which delivers
world-class measurement science & technology and provides
traceable and increasingly accurate standards of measurement for
use in trade, industry, academia and government.
NWML - Legal weights and measures are
fundamental to a sustainable trading economy. Every week in the
UK, over a billion pounds of goods are weighed and measured at
retail level alone. NWML, Trading Standards Officers and other
approved persons, are responsible for making sure these measures
are correct.
OST - Office of
Science and Technology is
responsible for developing and coordinating Government policy on
science and technology both Nationally and Internationally. OST is
also responsible for the allocation of the Science Budget
(currently over £3 billion per annum) into research via the
Research Councils for which the
Director
General of the Research Councils (DGRC), Sir Keith O'Nions, is
responsible.
SD -
Sustainable development (SD) is about achieving economic growth,
environmental protection and social progress at the same time.
Sustainable development, therefore, pervades DTI's mission to work
with business, consumers and employers to drive-up productivity
and help create prosperity for all.
Intellectual
Property - Here you will find all the answers to your questions
and all the resources you need to find your way through the
IP jungle of
Copyright, Designs, Patents and Trade Marks.
The-Key - This site is
managed by the Patent Office as part of a campaign to make
businesses more aware of the benefits of protecting their
intellectual assets and to prevent them incurring unnecessary
costs. The campaign is supported by the Chartered Institute of
Patent Agents (CIPA) and the Institute of Trade Mark Attorneys (ITMA).
The Patent Office
- This site is deals with Intellectual Property (Copyright,
Designs, Patents and Trade Marks) in the
UK.
Regional Development Agencies
/ Development Agencies
RDA's / DA's aim to help the UK's economic development and regeneration,
giving business support, investment and competitiveness, skills,
training for sustainable development.
