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BIC Small Business Grant

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Employing a new staff member?

The Small Business Grant programme has been set up to encourage companies to develop their businesses and to create sustainable employment.

This grant which is on a 33% contribution towards your overall employment creation project can be used for Capital or Revenue expenditure
equipment • professional fees • marketing • intellectual property rights • training • product development etc…

You may be eligible to apply if you are:

  • Creating a permanent Job as a new start up business or a small and medium sized enterprise
  • Ineligible to apply for other grant funding
  • Based in or relocating to Stoke on Trent or Staffordshire

  • To check if you are eligible to apply for a grant from the Stoke-on-Trent & Staffordshire Small Business Grants read the eligibility criteria below and if you can answer yes to all the boxes continue to complete the expression of interest questions. You will then be contacted to arrange an appointment to go through the full application form and the process from application to grant offer letter and the reporting that will be required if your grant is approved. Any questions, telephone 01782 333798.

  • Eligibility Criteria

    If you have answered Yes to all of the below question please proceed to complete the form.

  • Contact Details

  • Cost & Funding

  • e.g. purchase equipment, start up costs, specialist fees.
  • Maximum 33% of Total Cost - SME – up to 250 employees, annual turnover and/or annual balance sheet up to EUR 43m
  • Including breakdown of individual amounts and whether contribution is confirmed

  • Employment impact

  • Completion

  • Data Protection
    Please note that this is a government funded Programme supported by the Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire LEP and it may be necessary to share your information with these parties in order to give you the full assistance you require. You should be aware that some information relating to this Programme may be declared to third parties under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. We will not sell or divulge your details to any third parties. All information given will be held in confidence and only used in accordance with the Data Protection Action 1998.
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World Intellectual Property Day

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Friday 26th April is World Intellectual Property Day.
This is the day WIPO came into force in 1970 and is a day whose aim is to increase the general understanding of Intellectual Property Rights..

As an Innovation Centre we know only too well the importance of IP and run five or six events a year so that local companies can understand and take up any IP protection for their businesses. Yes, Patents can be expensive and take a long time to be granted but can you afford not to protect your innovation? It gives you monopoly on the production of that innovation for twenty years!

It was good to hear this week that the plans to bring in a new ‘superfast’ patent processing service, which will be capable of granting patents in just 90 days, were confirmed by Intellectual Property Minister Lord Younger.

Trade Marks are always interesting and can include a company’s logo and product branding. Your Trade Mark will sell your product so get it registered.

Copyright is a very much underestimated form of Intellectual Property. Did you know that you could still benefit from your intellectual property when you are dead? According to the Intellectual Property Office the top Dead Earner in 2012 was Elizabeth Taylor at $210m followed by Michael Jackson at $145m and Elvis a mere $55m

If you want to know more come along to our next IPR workshop on 15 May 2013.