{"id":54584,"date":"2015-03-02T15:28:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T15:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=d5c5cf4e36818bd8e16f70521cca11e6"},"modified":"2015-03-02T15:28:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-02T15:28:00","slug":"press-release-micro-smes-advice-and-support-from-business-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=54584","title":{"rendered":"News story: Micro SMEs: advice and support from business leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Do you have an innovative idea about making better use of scarce resources, or reusing waste materials?    <\/p>\n<p>You could get support and advice from experts on how to take your business idea to market via Innovate UK\u2019s Resource Efficiency Steering Group.<\/p>\n<p>The group, made up of senior people from industry and government organisations meets twice a year. Its next session is in June 2015 and there are places available for micro SMEs who\u2019d like a sounding board for bright ideas.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"helping-innovative-ideas-go-mainstream\">Helping innovative ideas go mainstream<\/h2>\n<p>Daniel Cremin from <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.civicolive.com\/\">Civico<\/a> attended the last session in December, and found the support and advice he got invaluable.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The Civico team were delighted to present our project idea to Innovate UK\u2019s Resource Sustainability Steering Group. The feedback from the industry experts gave us an invaluable level of scrutiny and orientation that helped us to refine our final project design and its value.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">Following the meeting we decided to apply to the Innovate UK \u2018Recovering valuable materials from waste\u2019 competition. Meeting with the Resource Sustainability Steering Group really helped Civico and I\u2019d recommend others do the same.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p>Any UK micro SME can apply, whether or not you\u2019ve applied for Innovate UK funding before. Email nick.cliffe@innovateuk.gov.uk for more information.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p>Find out more about the resource efficiency strategy on page 60 of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/innovate-uk-delivery-plan-2014-to-2015\">Innovate UK\u2019s 2014 to 2015 Delivery Plan<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK micro SMEs in sustainability will get a rare chance to access expert advice on getting innovative ideas to mainstream markets this June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54584"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54584"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54626,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54584\/revisions\/54626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}