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Franchising options
Business format franchising, licensing, and agency and distribution agreements.
Managing your franchisees
Supporting and motivating your franchisees to grow sales and increase franchising fees.
New requirements for Changing Places Toilets provision
Building Regulations updated with the aim to increase the number of Changing Places Toilets to help make our public places more accessible
Rate bills for 2024-25 to issue this week
Businesses will begin to receive their rate bills for 2024-25 by the week ending 5 April 2024.
Business exit strategy: selling your business
How to develop key business characteristics that will make selling your business to another business more likely.
Exit strategy: key considerations when starting a business
Overview of the key start-up decisions that could affect your ability to successfully exit your business.
Energy Catalyst Round 10
GBIP in New York: Clean growth at Climate Week
Innovate UK is inviting businesses with clean growth solutions to apply to its latest Global Business Innovation Programme in New York.
Legal and financial checks when buying a business
Learn about the financial and legal checks you should make when considering buying a business.
Signing and completing the sale of a business
Details of the sale purchase contract and documentation, and the main tasks you must do to complete the sale.
Checklist: developing a product or service
Step-by-step list on how to develop new products or services, with a checklist of key things to consider before and during development
Open data opportunities for business
What is open data, where to find open data in Northern Ireland, and how to make the most of its business opportunities.
Get help with intellectual property protection
Advice, guidance and support with intellectual property issues for Northern Ireland businesses
Avoid infringing other people's intellectual property
How to check that you are not infringing other people's intellectual property
The importance of protecting intellectual property
Understand the significance of intellectual property rights and why it is important to protect IP such as trade marks, patents, designs and copyright
Intellectual property audit
How to conduct an intellectual property audit and assess the ownership of IP rights in your business
Types of legal protection for intellectual property rights
How to choose the right type of legal protection for your patents, trade marks, design and copyright
Intellectual property rights and your employees
How to ensure you hold the rights to any IP created by staff by stating the position in employment contracts
Intellectual property and freelance contractors
How to manage intellectual property rights if you commission work from freelancers or through work-for-hire agreements
Prevent intellectual property infringement
How to safeguard intellectual property rights by ensuring hard-copy information is kept securely and by protecting computer data