Business Gateway Tayside offers a range of professional resources, support and tools to help you learn new skills, create new opportunities and develop sustainable strategies for growth. The service offers assistance and impartial advice through a combination of online support, workshops, events and access to experienced business advisors.
Tel: 01382 843085
Email: dundee@bgateway.com
Scottish Enterprise is Scotland’s national economic, enterprise, innovation and investment agency. Scottish Enterprise works with public and private sector partners to develop the business environment and deliver a range of dedicated support services locally, nationally and internationally.
Scottish Development International (SDI) exists to support investment in Scotland, helping businesses access opportunities, markets and ventures. SDI provides a range of services including: training and development of staff; finance capital investment, innovation and research and development; improve manufacturing and energy efficiency and developing the skills base. In addition, SDI provides long-term support to help businesses settle, expand and thrive in Scotland.
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Skills Development Scotland’s Skills for Growth is an invaluable source of support, fully funded and aimed at supporting businesses to grow. If you employ between 5 and 250 staff, a specialist advisor will visit you, undertake a full assessment and analysis of your business to identify an action plan for growth. You will be linked up with the most relevant help available, which can be for a wide range of requirements including skills gap analysis, succession planning, strategic alignment, leadership development, culture and values, improving performance & efficiency and staff morale.
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Dundee Centre of Entrepreneurship, operated in partnership with the University of Dundee and Elevator, provides founders and entrepreneurs with the expertise, mentoring and business knowledge to grow their businesses – fast. There is no fee to participate in Elevator’s Accelerators.
Abertay University – Bell Street Ventures supports current Abertay University students and staff, as well as recent graduates. Bell Street Ventures offers co-working space, hot desking, meeting space, workshops, and access to a wide network of business contacts.
Dundee & Angus Chamber of Commerce is the fastest growing chamber in the British Chambers of Commerce network. As a local, independent, organisation with a national voice (through its affiliation to Scottish and British Chambers of Commerce), it represents the interests of members and makes their views heard in the right places at local, national, UK and European levels. It provides a range of business services and information and organises events to bring businesses together through an extensive programme of networking meetings, business seminars and training courses.
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The Interface team are based regionally throughout Scotland from the South of Scotland to the Highlands & Islands. The team will work with your business, public or third sector organisation to understand your goals and turn them into reality. Once they identify your needs, they will search through all of Scotland’s universities and research institutions to find the best match for you.
Growing our Key Sectors
BioDundee is a partnership that exists to promote the growth of life sciences and healthcare sectors in Dundee and the wider area, bringing together the public, private, academic and third sector organisations.
Tel: 01382 434913
Email: info@biodundee.co.uk
Forth & Tay Offshore (FTO), one of eight UK offshore wind clusters, was established to drive the growth of offshore energy on the east coast of Scotland. Seeking to build upon the area’s well-established strengths by developing its supply chain and workforce in support of the commitments in the Offshore Wind Sector Deal. Their vision for 2030 is for the region to become home to a thriving, comprehensive, internationally competitive offshore energy supply chain serving local, national and international projects.
Digital Dundee is a portal for the creative, digital, and tech sectors of Dundee and the wider Tay Cities region. This is a service based at Dundee City Council collaborating with the local, national and international tech ecosystem and the many sectors enabled by tech to help develop a dynamic, innovative and competitive city region.
Tel: 01382 434602
Email: info@digitaldundee.co.uk
Techscaler is a programme for creating, developing and scaling tech startups. They offer tailored support for everyone across Scotland with the ambition to build a startup, at every stage of the journey. Techscaler connects you with expert industry operators and experienced mentors, teaches you world-class playbooks and courses, and hosts spaces and events for people in startups to come together.
UK Games Fund is run by UK Games Talent and Finance CIC and supports the UK’s early-stage games development and digital interactive business and creative ecosystem.
TayScreen is the screen office for Dundee, Fife and Tayside promoting the region to attract all kinds of media and digital production and inward investment and providing free support including helping projects to source their needs including locations, services and expertise.
Tel: 01382 432483
Email: info@tayscreen.com
Dundee Social Enterprise Network (DSEN) help support people to set up, develop and grow successful social enterprises, both large and small. The team can offer direct practical support and advice to existing and aspiring social enterprises in Dundee.
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The Circle also provides support for the social enterprise and wider not for profit sectors. The Circle acts as a community hub, and provides services and office space to start-ups, right up to national charities and corporate businesses. It provides training on Social Enterprise and Community Wealth Building and provides opportunities for volunteering and placements.