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...

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 offers venture capital funding to businesses in the life sciences sector. They invest across all stages of development, including early stage. Preference is given to strong management and novel technology that offers significant improvements over current approaches.

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.

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...

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 offers venture capital funding to businesses in the life sciences sector. They invest across all stages of development, including early stage. Preference is given to strong management and novel technology that offers significant improvements over current approaches.

Amadeus offers venture capital funding to high technology companies in either the early or late stages of the business cycle.

This scheme provides grants to assist young people with innovative ideas in the area of design and engineering. Funding can help individuals to purchase the materials, components and services necessary for prototype production of their product designs.

This scheme funds knowledge sharing trips for EU and Japanese groups looking to engage in collaborative research into oil-alternative energy sources. EU Japan also produces an annual report on European research into renewable energy sources All ALTEN activities are organised on an occasional basis.

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.

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 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.

MEDIA is a support programme of the European Union to strengthen the competitiveness of the European film, TV and new media industries and to increase the international circulation of European audiovisual product. MEDIA 2007 commenced on 1 January 2007 and will run to 31 December 2013. With a budget of €755 million (around £500 million) MEDIA 2...