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You no longer need to pre-book to visit our Reading Rooms, including the Business & IP Centre. Join us at the Library and
make use of our databases and collection onsite. For more information, click here.

We’re also always open online, where our team continues to run online one-to-ones on intellectual property and business
information. 

We have a wide range of webinars, offering support to SMEs across the country through the COVID-19 pandemic and
beyond. These are all available on our website alongside articles, blogs and Industry Guides. We’re here for businesses
and look forward to welcoming you back.

 
We support small business owners, entrepreneurs and inventors like you. Our team are here to help you take the right steps to start
up, protect and grow your business. 
If you’re an ambitious business owner, with plans to scale-up, we also offer £10,000 worth of free support through our Innovating
for Growth programme. Or if you want specialised start-up support we have a programme for that too.

What’s more we have 21 National Network Centres around the UK, in addition to our Centre at the British Library.

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Reset. Restart
Our programme of free webinars and support sessions is back, designed to help you overcome obstacles and thrive in the current
climate. Supported by Barclays.

Upcoming workshops & events

Reset. Restart

Thu 7 Apr - Fri 22 Jul 2022

Our programme of free webinars and support sessions is back, designed to help you overcome obstacles and thrive in the current climate. We
have been listening to you and updated our Reset. Restart programme so that you can continue to benefit ...

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FREE

Webinar

Wed 8 Jun 2022

Join leading life and business coach Rasheed Ogunlaru for this special FREE online event to help you build your networking strategy and
activities in person – and online during the times we’re in.

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FREE

Webinar

Wed 8 Jun 2022

With so many factors out of your control in recent times, all businesses have needed to pivot and adapt to make it through.

FREE

Webinar

Thu 9 Jun 2022

We will help you to hone in on the best performing social media channels in your mix, with practical steps on how to optimise your time so that
these pay off more in terms of cash sales and networking.

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Reset. Restart
Join one or more of our series of webinars for practical, jargon-free training and advice from marketing to sales, current trends and, of
course, funding. Supported by Barclays.

Resources to help start, run and grow your business

Starting your business

Practical advice to help get your business off the ground, from business plans to market research.

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Protecting your ideas

Make sure you understand the basics of intellectual property and how to protect your product, website and brand.

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Growing your business

Want to go international or expand your product range? Get top tips for taking your business to the next level.

Databases and publications

Over £5m worth of current market reports from top publishers Mintel, Frost & Sullivan, Passport and more.

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Free industry and IP guides

Up-to-date quality information on intellectual property and for researching key industries, handpicked by our experts.

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Our research service

Pay our experts to do research for you.

Our Corporate Partners

Our corporate partners help us to support business owners like you from start up to scale up

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Articles

Read our articles for top tips and advice on starting and growing your business and protecting your intellectual property

Information clinics

Our staff provide free hour-long advice sessions to talk through your ideas in confidence, helping you to develop your business ideas and
business plan

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Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs

The EU exchange programme for new and budding entrepreneurs

Case studies

...I was just fascinated by how much information was here and it was all free...

Imran Merza and Taz Basunia, Jealous Sweets

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...One of the most invaluable things about coming to the Centre is networking with other budding entrepreneurs...


Jessica Rose, London Jewellery School

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...The Centre is helping us check we aren't infringing on anyone else's patents...

Guy Jeremiah, Ohyo

...If I hadn't have gone to the intellectual property course I wouldn't have even thought about trademarking my
business name...

Dana Elemara, Arganic

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Blog posts
Spotlight On... our IP experts!

Friday, April 29, 2022

To mark World IP Day this week, we're shining a spotlight on the intellectual property experts of the Business & IP Centre in London to learn
about their favourite inventors, weird and wonderful IP queries they've helped to solve, and...

Ten Things I wish I knew about Intellectual Property when I was younger

Monday, April 25, 2022

Every generation of young people wants to change the world. And they do, in some way. Right now in someone’s studio flat, or halls of
residence or on a gap year adventure is the next founder of a tech giant,...

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Meet Nick Hart, founder of Storm Skin

Monday, April 25, 2022

Like many budding entrepreneurs, Nick, the London-based founder of Storm Skin has never been short of ideas, but as a first time
entrepreneur, he had always hesitated when it came to launching. We are happy to say that with our...

Inventors of the Month: John Waddington and Anthony Pratt

Wednesday, April 20, 2022

If you were to hear the names, Professor Plum, Colonel Mustard or Miss Scarlet, the board game Cluedo, might immediately come to mind.
And for good reason too. The game is a part of so many of our childhoods. It’s...

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