For clear, concise, cost-effective advice on intellectual property, patents and industrial designs
IP VIA SKYPE
The next IP via Skype session will be on 8th December 2015. Book your slot now for a 1:1 with our patent attorney, via 
http://www.meetup.com/BusinessMentoring/events/227098704/
In the Chancellor's speech:
Following the 17% cut in the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills' budget, Growth Accelerator and the Manufacturing Advisory Service, part of the government's Business Growth Service, are closing down. Read more about it here:

https://www.enterprisenation.com/blog/posts/the-future-of-business-support-is-here-this-week-on-enterprise-nation.
INNOVATION VOUCHERS
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.. are designed to encourage businesses to look for new knowledge to help them grow and develop. Catch them while you can. Find out more, here:

https://interact.innovateuk.org/-/innovation-vouchers-round-13

Diane's interview is broadcast in Kent
INNOVATION FUNDING NEWS
Organisations can apply for a share of up to £3.5 million for first of a kind technology to demonstrate ‘tomorrow’s trains today’. This is a Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI) competition. Closes 29 November 2017.

UK businesses can apply for a share of up to £18 million to research vehicle technology that accelerates the transition to zero emission vehicles. Closes 13 December 2017. 

More on these schemes and others here. Take a look!