The British Inventors Society is a non-profit making, free-to-join and open-to-all information and educational portal.
The BIS exists only to assist and help creative people of all ages by bringing about easy access to safe environments where you will find the assistance needed to help get the idea protected, developed and to market.
To promote intellectual property awareness through all walks of life from school years on thus assisting growth in the IP portfolio of UK plc.
A team of experienced and highly skilled volunteers representing the world of invention, enterprise, industry, finance, law, education and government will manage the BIS. The formidable creative synergy will ensure best practice and connective networking to increase the chances of success for inventors by encouraging and facilitating better research, business planning and presentation skills.
The BIS information portal includes a website for news, views and events across the United Kingdom. So at the click of a button from the website: www.thebis.org vital and safe information websites can be immediately accessed.
The BIS will also publish "BIS-NIS Tomorrow" containing news features and letters representing the variety of subjects important to inventors and their support networks - plus a national diary of events.
BIS will help new local inventors clubs to form and link up in ways that will best suit local requirements, using tried and tested best practice methods and standards. Many new clubs are expected to form through the increased awareness of universities, technical colleges and schools.
BIS will also actively seek and establish links with television, radio and other media for the promotion of credible inventors and their incredible inventions.
Other network links will add new and original trade, industrial and professional organisations; central, local, devolved and quasi-government departments, such as Business Link; the Patent Office; NESTA, etc; Chambers of Commerce; regional technology centres; university inventors clubs; science and in-the-schools inventors clubs.
One area of supreme importance will be the special focus given to school pupils via parent-teacher associations, to stimulate, encourage, educate and create an understanding of what intellectual property is, and how they and the nation can benefit. This includes invention, copyright, design, trademark, how each is achieved and the steps required to protect, by way of easy-to-follow, simple, step lessons.
In time BIS will develop best practice standards and accreditation mechanisms that will further drive up output, rewarding prolific and ever-better invention.
BIS will encourage the provision of contract learning opportunities and grant-aided enterprise development through Kingston University's Knowledge Exchange and Enterprise Escalator as these initiatives network within academia.
The BIS team managers have pioneered or have been involved with many of these initiatives. The Virtual Company - TVC is a prime example of a highly successful team management system that maximises available grants and knowledge gains, with local expert champions.
Some of the organisations that have already expressed interest for support:
Ideas 21
Wales Innovators Network - WIN
Inkopo - Technology Business Development
British Invention Show
Trevor's 'Baylis Brands' and 'Break-Out Rooms'
Global Women Inventors and Innovators Network - GWIIN
The proposed management team include:
Paul Aldous; Virginia Rabbits; Sara Chadd BA; Kane Kramer; Bob Millgate BEM; Charles Niren FCA; Linda Oakley; Jeff Woolf OBE;
Alan Wilcher - 03 December 2003
Team Office 1:
6 Sun Street, Hitchin, Herts SG5 1AE
T: 01462 45 99 99 ~ F: 01462 420 356
Email team office 1 Team office 1
Team Office 2:
Allertoft, Bury Road, Bury, Cambs PE26 1NE
T: 01487 813 336 ~ F: 01487 815 997
Email team office 2 TS
