3i provides venture capital investment to ambitious start-ups and businesses with high growth potential. 3i operates in 14 countries worldwide including Europe, Aisa and the US. The company focuses its investments on 5 key areas. In the 6 months to the end of September 2007, they invested £93 million in venture capital, £706 million in growt...

Assessment procedure Applications will be evaluated by peer review and assessed by an expert panel, using the following assessment criteria - • What is the potential to replace or reduce animal use and/or improve animal welfare?* • What is the potential for the model described to build upon and improve current approaches to better understand the...

AAC Capital Partners helps UK based companies to obtain financial support in the form of private equity to help fund a variety of projects. AAC Capital is made up of the former Dutch, Nordic and UK buy out firms of ABN AMRO Capital. They lead buy outs within the £50 - 500 million deal range in the consumer, industrial and services sector.

Abingworth seeks to identify and invest in the best opportunities in the life sciences and healthcare markets. Their investments and expertise are balanced across all stages of company development including Venture Capital, Growth Equity and Public Markets. They invest in platform and enabling technologies, medical devices, instrumentation, compani...

ELSBC can help you access finance through loans of last resort. They are open to any business or start-up in our area who is unable to raise finance through other conventional ways, usually their bank, family or friends. Loans of last resort provide: -Up to £10,000 for start-ups depending on Borough - Up to £50,000 for growth businesses d...

ELSBC can help you access finance through loans of last resort. They are open to any business or start-up in our area who is unable to raise finance through other conventional ways, usually their bank, family or friends. Loans of last resort provide: -Up to £10,000 for start-ups depending on Borough - Up to £50,000 for growth businesses d...

The Advantage Early Growth Fund is a venture capital investment fund which was set up with the help of the UK Government. The fund aims to help companies obtain small equity investments to allow them to grow.

Advantage Enterprise & Innovation Fund is a £20 million pound venture capital fund established in 2005 to provide capital for expanding businesses. The investors in the fund include Advantage West Midlands and Development Fund. Financial support in the form of venture capital is available to assist small and medium-sized businesses in expanding ...

The Advantage Growth Fund provides venture capital investment to growing small and medium enterprises (SME's) in the West Midlands. The fund is aimed at start ups, early stage companies, companies looking to achieve rapid growth, management buy-outs and management buy - ins.

Arrow is a loan guarantee scheme which provides an introduction for small businesses to mainstream banking finance enabling them to access the full range of services on offer from a large financial organisation.

3i provides venture capital investment to ambitious start-ups and businesses with high growth potential. 3i operates in 14 countries worldwide including Europe, Aisa and the US. The company focuses its investments on 5 key areas. In the 6 months to the end of September 2007, they invested £93 million in venture capital, £706 million in growt...

Assessment procedure Applications will be evaluated by peer review and assessed by an expert panel, using the following assessment criteria - • What is the potential to replace or reduce animal use and/or improve animal welfare?* • What is the potential for the model described to build upon and improve current approaches to better understand the...

AAC Capital Partners helps UK based companies to obtain financial support in the form of private equity to help fund a variety of projects. AAC Capital is made up of the former Dutch, Nordic and UK buy out firms of ABN AMRO Capital. They lead buy outs within the £50 - 500 million deal range in the consumer, industrial and services sector.

Abingworth seeks to identify and invest in the best opportunities in the life sciences and healthcare markets. Their investments and expertise are balanced across all stages of company development including Venture Capital, Growth Equity and Public Markets. They invest in platform and enabling technologies, medical devices, instrumentation, compani...

Acorn Fund Management, which is a sister company to and an appointed representative of Acorn Corporate Finance, has a highly experienced fund management team who work in conjunction with people who have specific knowledge of an investment type to provide focussed funds. Generally, the funds are focussed and are structured as limited partnerships...

Artemis defines and implements a Research Agenda for Embedded Computing Systems. Artemis co-ordinates research activities through open calls for proposals through a 10-year €2.5 billion research programme on Embedded Computing Systems.

The Clean Sky Joint Technology Initiative [JTI] project was created by the European Commission for funding research in Europe to allow the implementation of ambitious and complex activities, including the validation of technologies at a high readiness level.

This scheme provides a grant to businesses, facilitating access to digital content and its use and exploitation, whilst reinforcing co-operation between digital content stakeholders. The programme also supports the co-ordination on library, archive, museum and digital collections.

The objectives of the DTC programme in Electromagnetic Remote Sensing are to research and demonstrate innovative and cost-effective sensor technologies in any parts of the EM spectrum that can improve substantially the capability to detect and/or identify and/or locate military targets, at longer range and in adverse weather. The research is potent...

The European Nanoelectronics Initiative Advisory Council (ENIAC) is the Advisory Council of the European Technology Platform Nanoelectronics and brings together leading European players in Nanoelectronics from industry, research and academia.