Help for inventors

Being an inventor can be a lonely and confusing business.   Who can you talk to about your idea without the risk of its being stolen?   Where can you find practical help?  What are the most important steps – and in which order should you take them? 

Recognition of these issues, by the Prince of Wales in 1992, led to the evolution the Innovation Service.  When Business Link funding was withdrawn in April 2007 the Innovation Advisers were determined that inventors could still find help and started Inventor Qest. 

Our aim  is to help individuals and small businesses to evaluate and realise the potential of their innovative new ideas.  We offer low cost, high value help for you to commercialise your idea, including advice and support for:

• Protecting your idea.
• Financing your product.
• Managing your project.
• Evaluating your invention.
• Designing your product.
• Models and prototypes.
• Regulations and testing.
• Finding a Manufacturer
• Marketing your invention.
• Licensing your idea.
• Planning your business.

For more information please take a look at Our Services.   Alternatively you may find more information on the web-sites below:

• Patent Office; 
• British Library;
• Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys;
• Institute of Patentees and Inventors;
• Business Link;
• Department of Trade and Industry;
• Manufacturing Advisory Service