At the Technology Strategy Board, we want to help to broker success by enabling business, industry, research and learning organisations to collaborate on innovative projects and reach their full potential.

But we don't stop there. Our role is to support and direct you to the most suitable available support that will allow you to meet your business needs. In doing this we appreciate that our ‘customers' are at very different stages, have ranging levels of resource, and importantly will operate at vastly differing scales.

We have started this simple "Get Involved" roadmap with some key starting points under ‘"Who are you?", but we are keen to hear from you so that we can add your situation to the starting grid. If you feel that you have a different starting point, please let us know by using our contact form and help us to develop this so that others can get involved.

Please note however that Technology Strategy Board competitions for funding generally seek R&D projects run by consortia of companies collaborating together (often including a university), rather than by lone inventors, entrepreneurs, single companies or academics.

So if you are an individual with a bright idea or a new invention which you are working to develop or bring to market, we are not the appropriate place to seek funding in the first instance. However there may well be great benefit in joining one of our Knowledge Transfer Networks so that you can exchange knowledge and expertise and maybe find a business partner or a source of funding or advice. Other organisations providing advice and services for inventors and entrepreneurs are the British Library and NESTA.