Empowering Smes

Hello, I'm Peter Towers, Managing Director of ESS Small Business.  Welcome to Survival Hints for Small Business.   Will you have an ESIC story?  Do you know what ESIC is?  Well, please join me for the next couple of minutes and I'll give you an overview of an ESIC story.    Have you developed a new product, process, service or developed an organisational or marketing methodology?  Have you been undertaking research and development?  Have you already participated in the Accelerating Commercialisation Grant Programme?  Have you registered a patent, plant patent or a registered design?  These are some of the requirements for you to join us on an ESIC story.   First of all you need to talk to an accountant and have a strategy determined for you.   You'll need to have a company and undertake a self-assessment process.  The accountants that I'm going to introduce you to later have a product which we've developed which will assist them to assess whether your company can be deemed to be called an "Early Stage Innovat