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What is Industry 4.0?
Introduction into the key concepts, principles and components of Industry 4.0 or the fourth industrial revolution
Business benefits of Industry 4.0
Discover the advantages of using digital technologies to help you reduce costs, increase efficiency and revenue, and improve customer experience
Here's how we run a social enterprise - Loaf Catering (video)
How Loaf Catering operates as a social enterprise, generates income and engages with the local community
Research and development
Understand the importance of research and development for the success of new products, services and ideas
Sales and marketing for start-ups
Guides on how to maximise sales and how to deploy marketing to attract customers to your startup business
Protect your business ideas
Guides on how to protect the unique and innovative aspects of your startup idea and intellectual property in your new business
Hire staff
Guides to help you when employing staff in your startup business and the legal responsibilities you have as an employer
Selling
Preparing to sell. The sales process. Choose and manage a commercial agent. Forecast and plan your sales. Spotting market opportunities. Increase your market share. Identify potential sales channels. Overview on selling to government. ...
Pricing
Competing fairly. Price indications. Price lists, estimates, quotations and tenders. Price your product or service.
Checklist: set up as a sole trader
A checklist of things you must do, and organisations you must make contact with, to set yourself up as a sole trader
Checklist: set up a business partnership
A handy checklist of steps you must take when you are initially setting up your business partnership
Checklist: set up a limited company
A useful list of things you need to do to when setting up a limited company and organisations you need to contact
Getting a product to market - Babocush (video)
Kerry Nevins, the creator of Babocush baby comfort cushion, shares her thoughts on new product design and development
IP rights: copyright
What is copyright, when does it apply, and how you can use it to protect your intellectual property
IP rights: trade marks
What are trade marks, and how to register trade marks to protect your brand, products or business
IP rights: designs
An overview of design as an intellectual property asset and advice on how to use unregistered and registered designs to secure your IP
IP rights: patents
What is a patent, how to apply for one, and how to use and enforce it to protect your business' intellectual property
Starting a business: ongoing training
Training will support the development of a business, understand the importance of ongoing training
Objecting to and challenging trade marks
How to oppose trade mark registration, on what grounds, and how to object to trade marks before or after registration
Using other people's trade marks
How to avoid infringing on other people's trade marks and what to do if you face an infringement claim