Integrating Innovation into Business

The Centre for Advanced Photonics and Process Analysis (CAPPA) wold like to invite you to a free integrating innovation into business event, which will take place on Wednesday the 22nd of January from 9 am to 1 pm in the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Belfast. This is a free event designed for small and medium sized companies across all sectors and focuses on intellectual property, R&D tax credits, government - funding incentives available for innovation and the benefits of collaboration. 

The event offers a unique opportunity to hear from Northern Ireland's longest established IP firm, Ansons, on the areas of applying for, obtaining and enforcing IP rights and trademarks and copyright as well as R&D tax credit specialists, Amplifi Solutions on how best to avail of research and development tax credits. On the day, you will also hear about a variety of state funded initiatives to assist companies with R&D activities, examples of collaborative projects and innovation for industry projects. There will also be a representative from InterTrade Ireland to speak about cross border collaboration. 

If you are a business owner or involved in industry it is likely you are looking for ways to give your company a competitive advantage. Continually striving to develop your business is challenging but there are a wide variety of schemes and expertise available to you, which you may not be aware that your business could avail of. Over this morning session, CAPPA will provide you with important information as to how you can extract the maximum support for your business. 

There will also be examples from various sectors, which have utilized these state funding incentives, and the benefits this has had to their business. CAPPA team members will be available for a range of one - one meetings after the event, enabling you to speak with a CAPPA representative about your business queries in detail.