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.

Opportunities in the Defence arena

Could there be an opportunity in the Defence arena for your products or technology?

·         Technology for security

·         Enablers: Sensors, signal processing, antenna or COTS technology

·         Smart materials and structures

If these terms are relevant to your business, have a look at upcoming calls from the Centre of Defence Enterprise.  Approximately 42 per cent of the £35 million funding supplied to date through CDE has gone to small and medium-sized companies

"It's good to see that innovation in Scotland is alive and well"

This is how Marion Anderson, Project Manager of Encompass welcomed over 65 delegates who attended the Encompass event: 'Accelerating Innovation in your business - how universities can help' on 26th November, 2012 in Glasgow.