The UK Intellectual Property Office and Scottish Enterprise are coming together to hold a joint event at The Studio, Glasgow on 7 November 2024, 9.30am to 1.30pm.

SMEs are the backbone of the UK economy, accounting for more than 99% of the business population; they are vital to achieving economic growth and improving the UK’s productivity. Intellectual Property (IP) is positively associated with various indicators of business success, with recent evidence showing firms that register IP rights (IPRs) achieve 20% higher revenue per employee[1] and a likelihood ten times higher of accessing early-stage growth finance compared to their peers without IPR portfolios[2].

At the event, the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) will highlight the support they provide to small and medium-sized enterprise (SMEs), including the new financial support scheme for innovative businesses, IP Advance.

Scottish Enterprise (SE) will set out the opportunities for businesses to scale up their innovation and to access support for their intellectual property and business growth. This key area is identified in SE’s new Missions based approach, which aims to unlock thousands of new jobs and billions of pounds of global growth opportunities for a more successful, greener and fairer economy.

If you support businesses to recognise the potential value in their IP assets, this is your chance to hear more about the IPO’s support for SMEs and SE’s work to support businesses to leverage IP to achieve business growth.

The event, hosted at The Studio, will include keynote speeches from the IPO’s Ben Llewellyn-Jones, Director of Business & International Policy and Scottish Enterprise’s Head of Innovation, Alison Munro.

The event is open to the IP Professional community – including Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys, IP Legal Professionals and IP Commercialisation advisers. It will also provide networking opportunities with colleagues from across the host organisations as well as attendees from the IP Professional community.

Timings

Arrival and refreshments from 9.30am, with the event running from 10.00 to 12.30, followed by lunch and networking opportunities until 1.30pm.

[1] Intellectual property rights and firm performance in the European Union – EUIPO (europa.eu) – https://www.euipo.europa.eu/en/publications/intellectual-property-rights-and-firm-performance-in-the-european-union

[2] Patents, trade marks and startup finance – EUIPO (europa.eu) – https://www.euipo.europa.eu/en/publications/2023-startup-finance