Director Bob Watson took part in a interview recently with Andrew Winter, of Access to Capital . "Back to basics" is a discussion on business finance and business funding. The podcast of his interview is available here and the accompanying article is below.
How do you get investment funding for an SME?There is a major problem around the world afflicting the growth of SME’s (Small to Medium Enterprises). In turn this is preventing sustained economical growth, which impacts on national economies. By not vigorously growing and funding this sector we will all fail to benefit from what these SME’s could provide in the future. In the UK we bear the burden of this aversion to funding innovation. This is generally known as the Funding Gap and in the UK we would determine that to be funds up to approximately £1,000,000. These amounts are generally considered too small for the Venture Capital Funds and so it is left to Business Angels and Private Investors to fill the need. Full article available here (Acrobat PDF 116kb). You will need the Adobe Acrobat PDF reader to view this document. It can be downloaded free from the Adobe website .
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