Government Funding Opportunities For SMEs

The lack of readily available funds that often exists within a growing small or medium technology enterprise (Tech-SME) can result in management having to juggle many competing priorities; unfortunately, this sometimes means that protecting the enterprise's intellectual property (often one of its most valuable assets) is passed over for other critical needs. There may be a variety of reasons why this is the case, but undoubtedly with access to more money, Tech-SMEs would have the financial resources to better address their priorities, including by protecting their intellectual property assets. With this in mind, the Intellectual Property team at Bennett Jones set out to create a representative listing of some of the many government programs that may be of interest.