Innovation Start-Ups

We can provide practical legal advice on all aspects of your new business ideas and innovative products or services. We can assist you in writing a business plan, we can advise you how to protect your intellectual property rights, how to exploit your intellectual assets, and how to develop and promote your idea and maximise the benefits from your creativity. We can help assess whether it is a viable business proposition worth exploring, market expectations and marketing strategies and can provide practical legal advise on manufacturing, licensing or sub-contracting issues and arrangements and sale of intellectual property rights.

We can help with individual or multiple stage funding arrangements required in the early start up stages through to taking your business idea to market. We can introduce you to our extensive network of potential institutional venture capitalists, banks, investment clubs and business angels who may be willing to invest and get involved and support you business idea. We have considerable expertise in providing practical legal advice and assistance to high growth technology business start ups from coaching and mentoring in the early formative and planning stages through to their transformation as a viable trading business in their chosen markets. We have good links with many organisations and professional advisers who offer all kinds of support for your innovative business ideas such as:

• Manufacturing Advisory Service (MAS)
• Engineering and Manufacturing Consultants
• Business Links (and affiliated organisations such as Springboard Project, Science City York)
• Yorkshire Association of Business Angels
• Business and Networking Clubs
• Chambers of Trade & Commerce
• Yorkshire Fund Managers (YFM)
• West Yorkshire Ventures
• Universities
• Connect Yorkshire
• Yorkshire Forward
• Incubator funds and houses
• Specialist investors familiar with your product, idea and proposed target market
• Partnership Investment Finance (PIF)
• Viking Fund
• Business Angels
• Specialist accounting, tax and financial advisers
• Specialist marketing and PR consultants
• Patent and trade mark attorneys
• White Rose Bioscience Fund
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• Smart awards
• Specialist bank funding
• NESTA
• Institute of International Licensing Practitioners
• Chartered Institute of Patent Agents
• The Patent Office
• Institute of Trade mark Attorneys