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The Business Innovation Centre (BIC) is part of a European network of over 150 organisations which assist businesses and individuals to evaluate and develop inventions and technology related ideas.


Who can the BIC help?
  • Inventors
  • Entrepreneurs
  • Small and medium sized businesses

How can the BIC help?
  • Provide advice on inventions, innovation and technology
  • Assist with new product development and locate potential manufacturers
  • Business planning and financial forecasting
  • Identify markets and their potential, market research and planning
  • Source UK and European grants and funding
  • discuss legal aspects of inventions

What does it cost?


The BIC is supported by local sponsors the European Regional Development Fund and the Government's Single Regeneration Budget through Advantage West Midlands.

This means much of the work carried out is free of charge. However, for detailed work carried out on your behalf, charges are agreed with you in advanced, and calculated on a cost recovery basis.


If you have any further questions don't hesitate to ask us in the enquiry section





"To mobilise local innovative potential and renew the vitality of entrepreneurship and enterprise creation"





Dr Brian Goddard
Chief Executive

[email protected]
01785 226733
Karen Brindley
PA/Senior Administrator

[email protected]
01785 226733
Sandra Groom
Business Manager

[email protected]
01782 597025
Paul Longshaw
Local BIC Co-ordinator - Trentham

[email protected]
01782 235559
Donna Frosdick
Marketing & Publicity
Co-ordinator
[email protected]
01782 597025
Jackie Millward
Manager NEC

[email protected]
01782 297410
Deepak Rajput
Business Development Manager
Forest of Mercia

[email protected]
01785 2226786
Louise Melling
Central Administrator

[email protected]
01785 226598
Alice Turner
Local BIC Co-ordinator - Black Country

[email protected]
0121 558 8605
Natalie Platt
Administrative Assistant

[email protected]
01782 597025
Denise Dunn
Part Time Administrator

[email protected]
01782 297410
 
Yasser Khan
Part Time Administrator

[email protected]
01283 239555
   






Staffordshire and Black Country Business Innovation Centre
gratefully acknowledges the support of the following sponsors:


Advanced Ceramics
 
Alstom
 
Alton Towers
Why Innovation ?
Bentley Jennison
 
Black Country Business Link
 
Business Link Staffordshire
 
BT
 
Ceram Research
 
City of Stoke on Trent Council
 
HSBC
 
J C B
 
Keele University
Why Innovation ?
Knight & Sons
Why Innovation ?
KPMG
 
Newcastle Borough Council
 
South Staffordshire Group
 
Stafford Borough Council
 
Staffordshire County Council
 
Staffordshire University
Why Innovation ?
Swindell & Pearson
Why Innovation ?
University of Wolverhampton
 
Waterford Wedgwood Plc
 

© Staffordshire & Black Country Business Innovation Centre 2000

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