Useful Links

• The Ministry of Industry & Trade
• The Ministry of Science
• The Council for Higher Education

• FP6
• FP7
• CORDIS

Intellectual Property

• Intellectual Property Rights Helpdesk 
• European Patent Office

Finance for innovative companies / Venture Capital

• Israel Venture Capital
• The European Venture Capital Association
• Gate2Growth – Financing Innovation

European Support Schemes -  (mainly relevant to support innovation or technology transfer)

• Community Support Schemes for Financing Innovation

Other European Networks

• EBN network - EBN is the leading European network gathering 160 Business and Innovation centres (B.I.C.s) and similar organisations such as incubators, innovation centres and entrepreneurship centres)
• Ideal-IST - Ideal-ist finds partners for every type of Organisation wishing to participate in the European Union’s Information Society Technologies Programme (IST).
• European research networks
• Innovating Regions in Europe RIS - Regional Innovation Startegies
• OPET network - Organisations for the Promotion of Energy Technologies Network