Find the help your business needs

Need to protect your idea and exploit your intellectual property? We have just launched the first in a series of free practical online courses where you can learn about intellectual property - including patents, trade marks and registered designs.

Meet great people in an informal atmosphere and get the chance to see what the Business & IP Centre can offer you. Each time we'll have success stories to inspire and business insights to help you.

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Tuesday 20 May 2008
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Read what Steve Van Dulken, British Library expert on intellectual property and Neil Infield, Business & IP Centre Manager, have to say.

Are you on Facebook? Why not join our group, The British Library Entrepreneur and SME Network? It is an online networking and discussion space where you can promote your business and meet like-minded people.

This video, presented by Tim Campbell from The Apprentice and founder of The Bright Ideas Trust, showcases a handful of the 30,000 entrepreneurs and inventors that use the Business & IP Centre every year.

Everyone is welcome to visit the Library. To use the Business & IP Centre you'll need a Library Reader Pass.

If you're a deaf entrepreneur attending a workshop in the Centre you can now have a virtual sign language interpreter available in minutes, using the latest video conferencing technology.

Apply now for a one-to-one business advice session with one of our experts.

We are currently taking applications for one-to-one sessions with Kresse Wesling, one of the brightest stars in the social enterprise world and Mark Sheahan, our Inventor in Residence.

The Centre holds the most comprehensive collection of business and intellectual property information in the UK, including:

• Online business and IP information databases
• Market research reports
  Journals
• Directories
• Industry guides
• Trade literature

Book your place on our free one-hour, one to one clinic, where you can discuss your business idea in complete confidence and we will help you to find the information you need to develop your invention or business.

Together with our business partners, our information experts offer a range of free and highly subsidised workshops, events and 1:1 advice sessions so you can make the most of our resources and get the information you need.

Haven't got time to come in and do your research? Would like an expert to do it for you? Our Research Service provides a high-quality tailored information service to meet your needs and budget, combining subject expertise with direct access to the world's largest collection of business and IP information.