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Small businesses and new businesses

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Improve your business performance

Expand your business

Innovation and technology

Help with environmental matters

Help with regulations

Help with European matters

Help for Trade Associations

Changes to Business Support

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The DTI’s Business Support Solutions:
practical help for your business

As a business you make your own success but government could help to overcome some barriers. Each year the DTI invests £0.5 billion assisting you through grants, loan guarantees and subsidised consultancy.

The Business support solutions outlined in this website 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. They are easy to access and use.

View summary table to see if the DTI's Business support solutions are applicable to your business (pdf, 38KB) , or visit the four areas below for more detailed information about the range of support available and whether your business could be eligible:

Succeeding through innovation: Providing practical support for the key stages of innovation or research and development

Achieving best practice: Helping businesses to become more efficient, competitive and profitable

Raising finance: Supporting small or high growth companies attract investment 

Regional investment: Encouraging investment in specific areas of England to promote economic regeneration

Search the Business Support Directory for grants and business support from other providers as well as the DTI 

For further practical help and advice for small business visit Business Link

Related DTI sites:
Business Link
The Government site for practical business advice and help.
Companies House
Link to a wide range of Government sites and professional bodies that can provide general guidance and support for UK companies.
Patent Office
Responsible for UK intellectual property – copyright, designs, patents and trade marks.
Competition Policy
Work on UK and EC merger, monopoly and competition regulations.
  The DTI Neighbourhood Renewal Implementation Strategy
A hugely ambitious programme to turn our most disadvantaged neighbourhoods around.

Other business and consumer related information is available from DTI's Fair Markets Group site.

  
Related external sites:
DTI is not responsible for the content of external sites.
Anti-terrorism Guidance
Home Office advice for UK businesses on dealing with the terrorist threat
The administrations in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland work with DTI to support firms in their respective countries. They also operate individual initiatives to help businesses. In addition, there are Government Offices and  Regional Development Agencies in the English regions.