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Provides advice on the key points to take into account on design.
This section shows how to translate user needs into policy and services and how you to work collaboratively with users and specialists
These include lesson plans for teachers, other resources for the classroom as well as exercises and activities for home learning for both children and adults.
Up to £60 million is available for innovations that will help boost the UK’s satellite communications sector, following the record number of global satellite launches in 2023.
This section includes tools to help you move from low fidelity ideas to policies and services that can be delivered to users
The duties and competence requirements for building regulations that clients, designers and contractors must meet.
This playbook explains how we use social media at GDS. In it, we share our best practice, what we've learned and what we're planning to do.
How to get scientific advice about your licence application from MHRA, including: submitting a request, your meeting with MHRA, fees.
Check the tariff classification for decorative articles for Christmas trees.
Find out when you can zero rate VAT for advertisements and goods used for the collection of donations.
Guides councils in preparing planning policies on housing for older and disabled people.
Includes registering, protecting and applying for designs and patents
Benefit from your design by licensing, mortgaging, selling, changing ownership and exploit by marketing.
Check if you need to apply for an environmental permit, formerly known as a flood defence consent, and get the forms you need.
Buy or get someone's permission to use a patent, trade mark, design or work under copyright
What intellectual property is, how you can protect it, and which of copyright, patents, design right and trade marks applies to your work
The shape and the configuration of objects are automatically protected by design right in the UK and Europe.
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