knowledge for business january 08 neil infield

An Introduction to the Business & IP Centre

Neil Infield – Manager Business & IP Centre

2Knowledge for Business - January 08 - Neil Infield - Manager Business & IP Centre - British Library

What is the British Library?

3 main funding streams:•DCMS grant-in-aid (£89m) •Annual trading income (£25m)•Donations (£4m)

Generates value to the UK economy each year of 4.4 times public funding

Helping people advance

knowledge to enrich lives

National library of the UK.Serves researchers, business, libraries, education & the general public

Collection includes over 2m sound recordings, 5m reports, theses and conference papers, 50m+ patents

The largest document supply service in the world. Digitisation enables desktop delivery within 2 hours

Over 250 years of collecting. Beneficiary of legal deposit, and £16m annual acquisitions budget

3 main sites in London and Yorkshire. 2,250 staff

Collection, 600km of shelving, grows at 11km per year1.25 Tb of digital material through voluntary deposit


A vital resource for entrepreneurs, innovators and business researchers


Supporting creativity and Innovation


The Business & IP Centre


Our workshop space


Our training suite


Some of our supporters

Dame Anita Roddick, founder of The Body

Shop

Tim Campbell, Winner of

The Apprentice

Lord Bilimoria, Founder and CEO of Cobra Beer Ltd


Building partnerships with other organisations


A few of our success stories

“This is a very special resource and I feel privileged to have access to it”Dee Wright Founder of The Hairforce

“The Market Research Resources at the centre helped us put together our first business plan, with which we were able to convince NESTA to award us a £35,000 grant to start the business up.” Richard WoodsCo-founder of DIY Kyoto

“I had no background in food and drink, so I spent six months in the Library researching the market..” Adam PritchardFounder & MD, Pomegreat

Knowledge for Business - January 08 - Neil Infield - Manager Business & IP Centre - British Library

A few of our success stories


UK & Global Market Research Publications

Key Note

Verdict

Mintel

MSI

Datamonitor

Pira International

Leatherhead Food Research

Frost & Sullivan

SportBusiness Group

Publishers Association.


Trade & Business Directories

3,500 Directories

Countries, Industries & Trade Associations

Industry specific information

Suppliers of specific products & services


Search our collection from home


Online Market Research

Global Market Information Database (GMID) Euromonitor

Frost & Sullivan

Key Note

Business Insights


Online Company Information

FAME – Financial information on 2.5 million UK & Irish companies

AMADEUS - Financial information on 1 million top European companies

Onesource – Financial information on 13,000,000+ US companies

D&B Global Reference Solution – Contact database of 109 million firms

Kompass – Product & service directory of 1.8 million firms worldwide


News databases

Factiva – 10,000 local, national & international sources

Business Source Complete - Full text content from 11,000+ sources

ABI Inform – 2,700 newspapers, magazines & academic sources

Business & Industry – 1,000 business & sector-specific sources


HOW TO ACCESS OUR SERVICES

Research Service

British Library Document Supply Service

British Library Direct

Business & IP CentreSocial Science Reading Room

Science Reading RoomHumanities Reading Room

When outside the British Library you can search for and order

articles yourself

When in the British Library

We can do your research for you


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