Business start-up information

Enterprise/Business start-ups

Enterprise Agencies (national)

Scottish Enterprise
http://www.scottish-enterprise.com/

Highlands and Islands Enterprise
http://www.hie.co.uk/

Young Enterprise Scotland
http://www.yes.org.uk/

Networking groups for Entrepreneurs

Now Business
http://www.sharedbiz.net/

We entrepreneurs
http://www.weentrepreneurs.com/
Approx 50 pounds per meeting.

Scotland's only Innovation Consultancy
http://www.uk-idea.com/

The Entrepreneurial Exchange
http://www.entrepreneurial-exchange.co.uk/

Business Links

In Scotland

Angels Den
http://www.angelsden.co.uk/

Scottish Development Finance
http://www.scottishdevelopmentfinance.co.uk/

IRC Scotland
http://www.ircscotland.net/
They can help find new products or technologies from across
the UK and Europe. They can also promote technologies and
innovations for commercialisation or further development

Targeting Innovation
http://www.targetinginnovation.com/
Deliver business support services to a broad range of companies and organisations in software, innovation, biotechnology, e-business and intellectual asset management.
They have a key role in helping start-ups, established businesses and organisations in these sectors based throughout Scotland.

Scottish Financial Enterprise
http://www.sfe.org.uk/

ICASS is a government initiative, supported by European Funding, which provides specialist advice and counselling for Scotland's inventors and small innovative companies
http://www.icass.co.uk/

Centre for Entrepreneurial finance (Scottish Enterprise)
http://www.equityfinance.org/

Scottish Equity Partners
http://www.sep.co.uk/

The Queen's awards for Enterprise
http://www.queensawards.org.uk/

National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts
http://www.nesta.org.uk/

In the UK

Grantfinder is the most comprehensive database of UK and EU
funding, including grants, loans, subsidies and other incentives. http://www.grantfinder.co.uk/

British Venture Capital Association (BVCA)
http://www.bvca.co.uk/BVCA/Welcome.html

Working Model
http://www.workingmodel.co.uk/
Help with building prototypes. Highly recommended.

Baylis Brands
http://www.baylisbrands.com/
From the inventor of the clockwork radio

Techcrunch UK
http://uk.techcrunch.com/

Organised know how
http://www.organisedknowhow.co.uk/

LKT Business Solutions
http://www.lktbusinesssolutions.com/

Non UK sources

Venture Finance
http://www.tpsite.com/tp/vf/

American Inventor
http://www.americaninventorspot.com/

Other links

Scotland

E-commerce Scotland
http://www.ecommerce-scotland.org/

Scottish IS - the trade body for IT in Scotland
http://www.scotlandis.com/

Useful info on company startups
http://www.startupweb.com/

Patent Attorneys
http://www.hindlelowther.com/
http://www.murgitroyd.co.uk/
http://www.marks-clerk.com/
http://www.ip-g.com/
http://www.kennedyspatent.com/
http://www.fitzpatricks.co.uk/

Legal information

http://www.pinsentmasons.com/
http://www.out-law.com/

UK oriented

Federation of Small Businesses
http://www.fsb.org.uk/

http://www.bba.org.uk/
British Bankers Association. Has a useful search engine to
compare business bank accounts

http://www.cssa.co.uk/
CSSA is the trade association for the IT services and software
sectors, representing the interests of companies in these sectors since 1975. CSSA currently has over 600 member companies representing approximately 80% of the industry by turnover with combined revenues of more than 14 billion pounds in 1998.

In addition CSSA's business growth service provides support and advice to a further 700 young, hi-tech companies.

Patent search

http://gb.espacenet.com/

Information for exporters

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