Enterprise Europe Network will help you in orientating about the ways of intellectual results’ protection in order to profit from your ideas and innovations.

Do you need assistance for your intellectual property protection in other countries? Do you know the terms within which this should happen, what are the ways of doing it and how to optimize your costs?

ARC Consulting is the European IP Helpdesk Ambassador for Bulgaria and our experts can give you information about the options of intellectual property protection in the country and abroad following the national, regional and/or international routes, as well as about the functioning of:

• European Patent System
• Community Design Registration System
• Community Trademark Registration System
• Patent Cooperation Treaty System
• Hague System for the International Registration of Industrial Designs
• Madrid System for the International Registration of Marks

We can also provide you further information about the international aspects of intellectual property protection and connect you with Bulgarian, European and international intellectual property experts – this will save you time and efforts.

You need to improve the efficiency of your innovative projects?

You want to step on new markets and to achieve new competitive advantages?

Enterprise Europe Network offers you the opportunity to do this with the help of instruments for the analysis of company’s innovation processes management and individual advisory support.

SMEs’ benefits from innovation management assessment:

• self-analysis of the management processes, connected with the company’s innovation activity;
• in-depth report with benchmarking analysis with leading companies in the branch and on the markets, where the enterprise is present;
• consultancy support and expertise;
• opportunity for improvement of SMEs’ competitiveness and for the achievement of higher growth based on more effective management of their innovative activities.

Innovation Health Check will help you determine the extent of innovativeness of your company, as far as it’s designed to assess you innovation process. The instrument analyses from the very beginning how the process takes place, taking into consideration your consumers’ needs (declared and non-declared), the generation of ideas, concept development and product/services creation until the commercialization phase together with all the transitional steps.

The analysis will check how your innovation process is influenced by your:

• corporate culture,
• understanding for all aspects of the business,
• business strategy,
• corporate structure,
• enterprise abilities and resources and
• innovation processes’ level.

Innovation Health Check gives you the opportunity to:

• compare your performance with the one of your competitors,
• identify your strengths and weaknesses,
• get ideas for improvement of your innovation processes,
• take fact-based decisions about your innovation activity and
• improve your competitiveness and expand.

The instrument is developed by Enterprise Ireland, part of EEN.