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Europe
and the UK
Banks - Small Business Banking
Services
Most UK
banks offer a range of resources, information and software planning
tools for
start up businesses.
HSBC
Barclays
Lloyds
TSB
Natwest
Royal
Bank of Scotland
Alliance
& Leicester
Business and Market Research
Information Sources
GERMAN BUSINESS
CONNECTIONS
The
Tax Guide - tax information for the UK
Brainybusiness.com -
a small business website from the UK
- considerable information!
Bioindustry
Association
Biotechnology
Industry Analysis -
online magazine
Biofind -
The Internet's
"one-stop-shop" for worldwide Biotechnology industry information,
gossip and news
Bized -
Biz/ed is an educational
Internet service for students, teachers and lecturers of business and
economics. Based at the Institute for Learning and Research
Technology,
University of Bristol and launched in 1996, Biz/ed is a dynamic service
which
has developed a wide range of materials
BioAbility -
Biotechnology Guide
USA and online biotechnology phone book
Chemical
Industries Association
Company
Annual Reports Online
Dun and
Bradstreet - company
information - includes handy Internet credit card service for worldwide
users
EDGAR -
US site with extensive
company records and other useful business links
Europages -
The European Business
Directory - sector and company name searches
Hemscott
Company
Information - contains company account information
and press notices
Research
Index - The UK
business newspaper and magazine headline search engine
Nasdaq/Amex -
wide variety of
company and financial information
New
Scientist - brings the
scientific community on-line editorials, news, features and reviews
US
Corporate Information -
public and private companies, regional sites, sector sites, Canada,
Mexico. Site contains many links to other resources on the
Internet
Business Support
& Professionals
JobSmart--Cover
Letters
Eastern
& Central European Job Bank
Business
Link - website provided by the Small Business
Service, an agency of
the UK Government
Business
West - part of the
national network of Business Links, the first point of contact for
businesses
in the former Avon area for business information, advice, training and
other
services
Burges-Salmon -
one of the
UK's leading regional commercial law firms, providing high quality UK
law
services to an expanding national and international client base from
its
Bristol offices
Chartered
Institute of Marketing -
as marketing faces up to the challenges and contradictions of the new
millennium, the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) provides
leadership,
knowledge and expertise for everyone involved in the marketing process
Deloitte
Ernst &
Young UK
Freecom.net -
provides a complete
online service to small businesses wishing to harness the power of the
Internet
and equips them with websites to immediately deliver their products and
services to a worldwide market
Investinbristol.com -
promotes Bristol as a world-class investment location and provides
detailed
information about commercial property developments, Bristol's diverse
business sectors,
science and innovation, case studies, corporate views, key statistics
and an
interactive map
Osborne
Clarke - Innovative
Law Firm with offices in Bristol, the Thames Valley and London
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Tradepartners
UK - advice
and information from the Government network that helps UK companies
trade
internationally
UK
Company Formation Information
Business
Practice & Regulation (UK Government list of
key websites e.g.
Health & Safety Executive, Management Best Practice, Office of
Fair Trading
etc)
Companies
House - UK
company registrations and invaluable source of information on legal
aspects of
company formation and operation
IPG
Corporate -
incorporate your company
online, also includes a useful company name availability database
Inland
Revenue -
general information for business
Inland
Revenue R&D Tax Credits -
these boost the amount small and medium-sized companies can deduct for
current
spending on R&D when they compute their taxable
profits. SMEs can
deduct £150 in its profit and loss account for each £100 of
qualifying
spending
Intellectual
Property
Association
of University Technology Managers (AUTM)
British
Library - patents information services - excellent
list of IP
resources on the web
BTG
Chartered
Institute of Patent
Agents (CIPA)
Copyright
Licensing Agency
Data
Protection Registrar
Department
of Trade & Industry
The
Eureka Club - Internet
resource for inventors
European Patent
Office
Institute
of Patentees & Inventors -
British organization
Institute of
Trade Mark Attorneys
LES -
Licensing Executives
Society
Patent
Cafe
Software Patent
Initiative - US site
with database of software technology to help improve the patent process
UK Patent
Office & Trade Mark Registry
US Patent
& Trade Mark Office
World
Intellectual Property Organization
(WIPO)
WIPO
PCT Database
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Universities
& Technology Transfer
UCTech -
commercialising new technologies arising from publicly funded research
at the
University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory
AURIL -
Association
for University Research & Industry Links (UK)
AUTM -
Association of University Technology Managers (US)
HEFCE
(Higher Education
Funding Council for England) Publications
Research
Councils - joint
home page of UK Research Councils
TechnoLink -
online resource
for technology transfer professionals
Universities
UK -
formerly CVCP
The
Universities Companies Association
(UNICO)
Venture Capital
& Funding Sources
Beer &
Partners - the most successful and active firm of
Private Equity
Advisors in the UK.
They access a wide range of investors - institutional and private - for
clients
seeking venture capital
BVCA -
British Venture Capital
Association - represents venture capital and private equity in the UK
EVCA -
European Venture Capital
Association
Catalyst
Venture Partners - Bath based
partnership helping companies to start, grow and develop.
They specialise
in technology and media sectors
First
Tuesday West - the
West of England branch of the world's largest meeting place for high
tech
entrepreneurs
Investors
Chronicle Online
NESTA -
National Endowment for
Science, Technology and the Arts - the UK's first national endowment
fund set
up with £200m of Lottery money
Private
Equity Online -
the destination website for Europe's private equity investors for news
and
intelligence
Recombinant
Capital
Venture
Capital Access Online - US
site
Venture Capital
Online - US site
Venturefest -
Oxford's
international fair for entrepreneurs and venture capital
The
Wyvern Seedcorn Fund - the
joint University of Bristol and Southampton Seedcorn Fund
European
Sites
Business/Markets
& other
Links
Center for West European
Studies (Univ. of Pittsburgh) eironline:
European Industrial Relations Observatory Online
Euro
Data
Research Archive Links (Mannheim Center for European Social Research)
EIROnline:
European Industrial Relations Observatory Online
Euro
Data
Research Archive Links (Mannheim Center for European Social Research)
European
Governments on the WWW (G. Anzinger)
WWW
Virtual Library: West European Studies (Univ. of Pittsburgh)
Yahoo's
Links to Europe
The Euro
Euro
and the European Central Bank (Philadelphia Fed)
The
Euro: Key Internet Websites (EU)
Euro
(Wikipedia)
European Central
Bank
European Union
CORDIS:
Community Research & Development
Information Service
Europa
European
Commission Library Catalogs
European
Investment Bank
ECLAS
(European Commission Library
Catalog)
The
European Union in the U.S.
European
Union A-Z Index
European
Union Internet Resources (Univ. of Calif.-Berkeley)
Exports &
Imports
Basic
Guide to Exporting (UNZ&Co.
& U.S. Dept. of Commerce)
Bureau of
Industry & Security (U.S. Dept.
of Commerce)
District
Export Council (U.S. Commercial Service)
Document
Library (Office of the U.S. Trade Representative)
Export
Assistance (Business.com)
Export
and Import (Business.Gov)
Export.Gov
(U.S. Government Export
Portal)
Export-Import
Bank of the United States
Exporting/Importing
Resource
Guide on Export Processing Zones (ILO)
State
Exports to
Countries & Regions (ITA, U.S. Dept. of Commerce)
Tariff
Information Center (U.S.
International Trade Commission)
Thomas Global
Register
TradeStats
Express (U.S. Dept. of Commerce)
The
2006 National Export Strategy (ITA, U.S. Dept. of Commerce)
Welcome
to Exporting 101 (Export.Gov)
Who
Exports, Who
Buys (Bureau of the Census)
Financial
Crisis
An
Analysis of Financial Crisis: Lessons for the International Financial
System (R.
Portes, London Bus. School)
1997
Asian
Financial Crisis (Wikipedia)
Financial
Crisis (Wikipedia)
Financial
Crisis in
Historical Perspective (YouTube.com/Oct. 2008, 07:07)
Financial
Crises:
Lessons from History (BBC/Sept. 2007)
The
History of
the Global Financial Crisis of 1997-99 in Asia as a Whole (World
History
Archives)
International
Financial Crises Homepage (JJ Lim)
Of
Manias, Panics & Crashes (Economist.com/2003)
The
World Financial Crisis (NYT)
This
Time is Different: A Panoramic View of Eight Centuries of Financial
Crisis (C.
Reinhart-UOMaryland & K. Rogoff-HarvardU/April 2008)
United
States Housing Bubble (Wikipedia)
What
Happens During Recessions, Crunches & Busts? (Claessens, Kose
&
Terrones, IMF/August 2008)
What
Happens During Recessions, Crunches & Busts? (PowerPoint
Version;
Claessens, Kose & Terrones, IMF/August 2008)
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