The British Library is the UK's national library, with one of the largest collections of printed material in the world, containing over 150 million items and featuring almost every known language. They are currently advertising their Innovating for Growth Maximising your Intellectual Property Module for small and medium-sized enterprises.

AUD10099 - Innovating for Growth Start-Ups Programme - Maximising your Intellectual Property Module
British Library

The British Library’s Business & IP Centre is designed to support small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and entrepreneurs from that first spark of inspiration to successfully launching and growing a business.

With funding support from the European Regional Development Fund, the Centre launched the ‘Innovating for Growth’ programme in late 2011 to focus on providing support to growth businesses, as opposed to start ups. Innovating for Growth – Phase 1 was completed in December 2015. Innovating for Growth - Phase 2 is due to start service delivery in May 2016, subject to final funding approval.

The ‘Innovating for Growth - Scale-ups’ programme aims to use the Centre’s unique resources and expertise to help high-growth businesses scale up, through developing new products and services and entering new markets. Each SME completes a number of face-to-face support modules through a combination of one-to-one meetings and workshops, which are tailored to the SME’s needs.

The face-to-face support, combined with practical workshops, is designed to accelerate each SMEs progress to the next stage. The Business & IP Centre’s information professionals alongside selected delivery partners will help each SME to put together a growth strategy and plan for their business, as well as identifying the workshops and one-to-one’s each SME will need to attend to hone their business knowledge and skills.

The module available for tender is: Maximising Your Intellectual Property

This is one of several modules that each SME needs to attend.

The Innovating for Growth - Scale-ups programme have been split into 6 modules as set out below.
1. Innovating for Growth Scale-Ups Programme - Building Your Brand Module
2. Innovating for Growth Scale-Ups Programme - Refining Your Business Model Module
3. Innovating for Growth Scale Ups Programme - Developing A Growth Strategy Module
4. Innovating for Growth Scale-Ups Programme - Maximising Your Intellectual Property Module
5. Innovating for Growth Scale-Ups Programme - Creating A Marketing Strategy Module
6. Innovating For Growth Scale-Ups Programme - Product & Service Innovation Module

Contractors wishing to obtain documents and bid on this opportunity should express interest.

Deadline for the submission of tenders: 01 April 2016

Contact:
British Library
Wetherby
LS23 7BQ
England
For the attention of: Vicky Platt
Email: vicky.platt@bl.uk

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