Business Support

The overall vision for Business Support theme aims to ensure that we improve the rates of business formation, survival and growth within Derby and Derbyshire to ensure greater economic prosperity.

DDEP looks to play an active role in creating an environment and culture conducive to entrepreneurship and business success. We support the start-up, growth and survival of dynamic and innovative businesses, making sure they're are as competitive as possible and trading at their full potential.

Our key priorities are:

  • Supporting the start-up, diversification and development of businesses
  • Encouraging Derbyshire businesses to invest in and make effective use of broadband, information and communications technologies and e-commerce.
  • Encouraging more businesses to maximise international trade.
  • Improve the availability and access to finance for new, small and medium-sized firms showing the potential for growth
  • Co-ordination and alignment of Business Support and Economic opportunities across the
    sub-region 
  • Capital Investment for Tourism, Heritage, Culture and Public Realm to Support the Visitor Economy.
  •  Supporting Innovation and Diversification in key sub-regional sectors. 

All of these strategies have to take into account the Business Support Simplification Programme, (BSSP). Business Support Simplification is a central government initiative about streamlining the number of business support schemes from over 3000 to fewer than 100 by 2010. Alongside this Business Link will be the main channel by which businesses can access government support. emda in support of this has moved to a Regional Business Link model and the positioning of the Business Link brand as the primary gateway to business support.

DDEP have aligned projects to work within the parameters of the BSSP and have designed services to help businesses thrive and grow in the sub-region. 

 

Partner Links:

Business Link East Midlandswww.businesslink.gov.uk|
East Midlands Businesswww.eastmidlandsbusiness.co.uk.|
emda - business supportwww.emda.org.uk/business support|
emda - tourisum,culture and 2012 Gameswww.emda.org.uk/tourism
Manufacturing Advice Service East Midlandswww.mas-em.org.uk|
East Midlands New Technology Initiativewww.eastmidlandsnti|.co.uk|
BERRwww.berr.cov.uk|
Derbyshire-Wellconnectedwww.derbyshire-wellconnected.co.uk|

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