Intellectual Property for small businesses - what's it all about?

Intellectual Property - do you know your way around it?  Do you know when you need it?  And when you don't need it? 

One of my university colleagues highlighted this app to me recently.   I think it's a pretty good guide to all things IP for the small and micro business.

Have a look. It's free to download on Itunes and is called:

IP for SB

By Goldborough Cottage Studio, published on behalf of The Intellectual Property Office (IPO), Swansea University and IP Wales.

More information at the IPO website link here.

Lynda NicolsonMarketing & Online Community Manager
Encompass, University of Glasgow

Have your say on how businesses learn to trade internationally

There's a research group meeting up in April who really want to make sure businesses have a say in the research that's talking place in University Business Schools. 

Their workshop will look at the learning that firms go through for growth with a particular focus on international.  

It will give the business community the opportunity to meet leading thinkers on how small to medium business owners and managers learn.