Links

Please find below some relevant links to North East Business Organisations, Intellectual Property and Venture Capital.

Regional Business Support

One North East

Real Help North East

One North East Grant Team

One North East Grant for Business Investment

Businesslink.gov.uk/northeast

CBI North East

Chambers of Commerce

ERDF

GONE

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Business Support Networks:

Entrust

Connect North East

Finance Tree

Entrepreneurs Forum

Bridge Club North

The Alchemists

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Venture Capital

BVCA

EVCA

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Local Venture Capital funds:

NVM

NEL

Coalfields Fund

UK Steel Enterprise

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Angel networks:

British Business Angels Association

Business Investors Group

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Centres of Excellence:

Cels

CPI

NaREC

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Digital Networks:

Codeworks

DigitalCity

Sunderland Software City

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Process/Engineering Clusters

NEPIC

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Other innovation support organisations:

Science City

RTC North

NHS Innovations North

Centre for Design Research

RCID

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Five Regional Universities:

Newcastle

Durham

Northumbria

Sunderland

Teesside

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Intellectual Property

Patent Search

UK Patent Office

World Intellectual Property Organisation

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Fun & Useful

The VC Comic

The Fast Company

VC Fodder

Red Herring

Tornado Insider

Growth Business

Cmypitch