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Funding Focus is a webinar series designed to help techUK SME members navigate the complex landscape of grants, tax reliefs and other sources of finance. Each session provides practical guidance, expert insights, and real-world examples to help your business access the funding and incentives available to support innovation and growth.
Join this session with Moore Kingston Smith and Venner Shipley, where we will outline how to leverage your IP to secure vital funding and maintain a competitive edge in your industry.
The event will focus on how start-ups and scale-ups can adopt an integrated approach to IP management and government innovation incentives. The interactive webinar will help you navigate the available funding opportunities, addressing various aspects across the innovation lifecycle, from practical tips on utilising government assistance to instilling a culture of innovation among technical, finance, and legal teams, all the way through to protecting and commercialising your inventions.
This event will provide a unique opportunity to gain invaluable insights from seasoned advisors and hear directly from real-world practitioners on how companies formulate their IP strategy, identify protectable inventions, tap into various innovation funding opportunities, and leverage IP to secure funding or safeguard competitive advantage.
Whether you seek inspiration, support, or practical advice, connect with experts and peers to accelerate your business growth.
This report illustrates the critical impact of tech SMEs across the nations and regions. techUK has combined quantitative data from Beauhurst with interviews from tech SMEs to provide both the current macroeconomic picture of tech SMEs, but also the economic and social impact made by individual tech SMEs.
As a UK and European patent attorney, Adrian Bennett advises innovative businesses on protecting and commercialising their intellectual property. With over 25 years of experience, he supports a broad range of clients from early-stage start-ups to multinational companies across sectors including advanced engineering, electronics, energy and manufacturing.
Adrian’s combination of technical insight, commercial acumen and industry experience enables him to deliver IP strategies that align with business objectives, funding opportunities and growth plans. His earlier career as an aeronautical engineer at British Aerospace informs his pragmatic and solutions-focused approach to advising on complex technologies.
He has particular expertise in drafting and prosecuting patent applications before the UKIPO, EPO and internationally and is known for providing clear, commercially driven advice to clients navigating fast-moving and competitive markets.
As a Director in Moore’s R&D team, David Byrne supports innovative businesses and helps them secure the government funding they are entitled to.
David's technical knowledge, project experience and communication skills ensure that all stakeholders are fully engaged and that claim methodologies are tailored to organisations’ needs. David has built a strong working relationship with HMRC, contributing to various committees and consultations. Combining an engineering background with a wealth of experience in professional services, David supports the delivery of robust and efficient R&D tax relief claims whether for start-ups and scale-ups or for the most complex organisations. Having led some of the UK’s largest R&D tax relief claims across sectors including software, media, telecoms and financial services, he has amassed several decades of advisory experience. His expertise encompasses R&D, Patent Box and other government incentives across many industry sectors.
David’s earlier career was as a software engineer with an FTSE100 company, designing and developing global platforms and leading international teams within blue-chip organisations.
