Enterprise Europe Network (Midlands) Information

The Enterprise Europe Network (EEN) is made up of over 600 business support organisations across Europe and beyond, covering 60 countries worldwide. EEN provides advice and assistance to small companies and medium sized enterprises (SMEs), supporting them to make the most of the opportunities in the European market by promoting business and technology partnering opportunities at local, regional, national and international levels, across a broad range of industrial and service sectors. We do this by helping businesses to build their innovation capacity and meet their capital requirements. Through partnership and advice, we help you to: • Develop your innovation to succeed capacity • Grow your activities in new markets • Disseminate or access to new technologies • Access finance • Take part in EU-funded projects, initiatives and research competitions • Understand EU laws and standards that directly affect your activities • Protect your rights and ideas by getting informed on intellectual property and patents; • Make your voice heard so that the EU legislation corresponds to your daily reality. We provide you with individualised support through information, knowledge sharing, expertise and networking. To find out more about our services on http://een.ec.europa.eu/services/overview. For step-by-step tailored support, get in touch with the EEN contact point closest to you directly: http://een.ec.europa.eu/about/branches. The EEN has already helped over 8,000 UK companies between January 2015 - March 2018. Get inspired by their success stories: http://een.ec.europa.eu/success-stories.