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Setting up IP services | Providing consultancy services<br />
44 <strong>Making</strong> <strong>intellectual</strong> <strong>property</strong> <strong>work</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>business</strong><br />
Market places and technology <strong>for</strong>a<br />
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ICC’s <strong>World</strong> Chambers Federation <strong>World</strong> Chambers Net<strong>work</strong> Business<br />
Opportunities (GBX) service: an online net<strong>work</strong> that allows chambers and their<br />
member companies to place and find <strong>business</strong> opportunities worldwide - http://<br />
www.iccwbo.org/wcf/id2837/index.html<br />
■■The<br />
Hamburg Chamber of Commerce and the Office of Science and Research of<br />
the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg have set up a technology data base to<br />
showcase technologies developed in Hamburg. - www.hk24.de/technologie<br />
Dispute resolution<br />
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ICC Dispute Resolution Services - provides rules and services <strong>for</strong> arbitration as<br />
well as amicable dispute resolution, including mediation, which can be used <strong>for</strong><br />
IP-related disputes at http://www.iccwbo.org/court/. It also issues publications and<br />
provides training on the topic at http://www.iccbooks.com and; http://www.iccwbo.<br />
org/events/id34191/index.html<br />
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WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Centre – offers arbitration and mediation services: -<br />
http://www.wipo.int/amc/en/<br />
Sources of funding<br />
■■The<br />
European Business Angels Net<strong>work</strong> encourages the exchange of experience<br />
among the <strong>business</strong> angels net<strong>work</strong>s and provides direct feedback from investors<br />
to SME’s, and plays an education and training role. http://www.eban.org/<br />
■■The<br />
European Venture Capital Association’s website provides links to a large number<br />
of national venture capital associations worldwide. http://www.evca.com/sources.<br />
html<br />
■■The<br />
European Commission CORDIS programme: the website provides in<strong>for</strong>mation<br />
and links about sources of finance <strong>for</strong> innovation activities and their commercialization<br />
- http://cordis.europa.eu/finance – and a practical guide to EU funding <strong>for</strong><br />
research – and innovation http://cordis.europa.eu/eu-funding-guide/home_en.html<br />
■■The European Investment Bank (EIB) – The “Innovation 2000 Initiative” at http://<br />
www.eib.org/pub/news/i2i/pmreport.htm) marks a clear shift in its lending activities<br />
towards innovation-rich projects and focuses on five key components, one of which<br />
is on “SMEs and Entrepreneurship”. The support provided by the EIB is mostly<br />
through its loan operations, as well as risk capital funding <strong>for</strong> SMEs (through its<br />
specialized subsidiary, the European Investment Fund-EIF at http://www.eif.org/<br />
sme/default.htm); <strong>for</strong> “SMEs and Entrepreneurship”. The support relates to venture<br />
capital operations or guarantee instruments <strong>for</strong> debt finance, which are managed by<br />
the EIF.
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