HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has joined forces with the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) to offer help to high-tech small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).<\/p>\n
The help will be in the form of a series of free workshops, which will be available to SMEs across the country and will support them in business growth, research and development (R&D), tax credits and innovation.<\/p>\n
The workshops will provide information on how businesses can make claims for further help, as well as providing background support, and the topics to be covered in them include R&D, the Patent Box tax incentive and other tax incentives.<\/p>\n
There will also be sessions on how to apply for grants from both the UK and European administrations, as well as information on the Horizon 2020 programme for research and innovation.<\/p>\n
The Intellectual Property Office will run seminars on patents and intellectual property and will give help on innovation and opportunities to commercialise technology through design projects.<\/p>\n
Starting next month in Cambridge, the workshops will take place across England and run until mid June, with the last seminar taking place in Scotland, although details for this are not yet finalised.<\/p>\n
A spokeswoman for HMRC said the department is behind these workshops because innovation lies at the heart of British culture, adding that our ideas and inventions have helped shape the world, from the telephone to the World Wide Web. <\/p>\n
She added that the UK has the largest creative sector per head in the world, so the workshops are designed to ensure that high-tech SMEs get the help they need to help them invest in R&D and innovation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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