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Apply for an Innovator Founder visa if you've been endorsed for a business idea: eligibility, documents, extend or switch, bring your family.
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Apply for a Start-up visa if you've been endorsed for a business idea: eligibility, documents, switch to this visa, bring your family.
Steps to help grow your business - finding finance, mentors, increasing sales and developing products and services
This brochure introduces the 24 winning ideas of Innovate UK’s campaign to engage and support young innovators, run in partnership with The Prince’s Trust.
Get business support and advice over the phone and online - setting up and running a business.
Loans and mentoring for people looking to start or grow a business in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
Includes registering, protecting and applying for designs and patents
A patent registers your invention and lets you take legal action against anyone who makes, uses, sells or imports your invention without your permission.
Find government-backed support and finance for business
What a New Enterprise Allowance mentor does, how to become one and details of the organisations that match new businesses with a mentor.
The next generation of business leaders have received over £100 million worth of support from the Government backed Start Up Loan Scheme
This page provides support for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) on bidding for government contracts.
New AI Opportunity Forum to ramp up adoption of AI in the private sector.
How to find and apply for opportunities at Sellafield.
The Security Industry Authority has launched a public consultation on the key principles that will underpin its business approval scheme going forward.
Business support workshops to explore self-employment and starting a business.
Proposals are sought for innovative pilot projects, funded by the UK Space Agency’s Unlocking Space for Business programme.
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