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Steps to make your business more efficient
How you can get the most out of your staff, processes and resources to reduce costs and improve your business.
How you can improve your profitability
How to identify and take advantage of the opportunities within your business to enhance your profit margins.
Finding support to develop our business - Shortcross Gin (video)
Fiona and David Boyd-Armstrong talk about finding support for developing their new product - Shortcross Gin
Advantages and disadvantages of venture capital
Potential benefits and drawbacks of venture capital.
How to find the right designer or design agency
How to choose the right designer or design agency to work with, and develop an ongoing relationship with them
Design sign off and approval
What is design sign off, the common issues and problems that can come up, and why sign off can be a useful milestone in a design process
Placing manufactured goods on the EU market
What you need to do to comply with regulations on manufactured goods you place on the EU market.
Intellectual property checklist for start-ups
Step-by-step checklist of things you should consider when protecting the intellectual property of your new business
Working with a designer to develop new technologies
How to find the right designer for your technology development project.
Advantages of protecting intellectual property
There are many benefits to protecting intellectual property assets of your business - find out why you should take steps to secure your IP rights
Different types of intellectual property
Understand what intellectual property is, the different types that exist, and how to use IP to protect your ideas, products and business
How to protect intellectual property
Advice to help you protect your intellectual property and plan your business’ IP strategy
Protecting patents abroad
How to go about applying for a patent in Europe or abroad
Catapult Network
How to gain access to expertise and facilities within the world-leading technology and innovation Catapult centres
Research and develop ideas, new products and services
Develop your idea into a viable business and create new products or services to meet customer needs.
Complain against an undischarged bankrupt or disqualified company director
How to complain against a disqualified director, an undischarged bankrupt or a person subject to bankruptcy restrictions.
Bankruptcy
An outline of what bankruptcy is and how it can affect your business, income, assets and bank account.
Check if a director has been disqualified or if an individual is bankrupt
Using the Companies House Disqualified Directors Register, and contacting the Insolvency Service.
Complaining about disqualified directors or undischarged bankrupts
Ways to submit a complaint to The Insolvency Service, and what happens after your complaint is submitted.
What disqualified directors and undischarged bankrupts cannot do
Restrictions on undischarged bankrupts and those subject to bankruptcy restrictions orders and undertakings.