‘More must be done to foster diversity in IP if we don’t want to wait 50 years to achieve gender parity in innovation’, says Joan Mill, Managing Director, EMEA at CPA Global.

Once you have the paperwork in place and guidelines established, it’s time to start bringing staff on board. There are a huge range of different legal factors to consider when recruiting, not least the laws around equality and right to work, so this week, we look at recruitment, workers’ rights and business immigration.

There are seemingly hundreds of interpretations of marketing. Most have appeared only within the last decade, driven by the onset of digital marketing and its ever-sprawling complexity and fragmentation.

Business is becoming ever-more personal. Today’s leading companies have human faces: to think of Facebook is to think of Mark Zuckerberg; to hear Amazon is to call to mind Jeff Bezos.

Startups gain valuable benefits and access through 4YFN, the official platform of emerging technology companies at MWC-Los Angeles.

Mous use outlandish stunts and challenge the status quo in the best interests of their customers. Co-founder and CBO, Lucy Hutchinson, explains why.

In this week’s guide, we look at how to manage your employees to ensure long term happiness and health, with performance management, sickness and absence management and incentive share schemes.

It may not come as a surprise but nevertheless, it’s somewhat depressing to know that the level of trust people have for leadership remains low.

No business owner should expect a completely smooth path to success – especially not when it comes to handling people on a daily basis.

Everyone has an idea about how they can create the next big thing, but how do you make that idea turn into a reality? Freelance platform UnderPinned teamed up with Startups Magazine to share knowledge about how to take a business from the idea stage to taking the first steps.

A perfect office space makes for productive and happy employees. But given the evolution of the modern workplace, what’s “perfect” now varies by company. When choosing a new office space with your commercial real estate company, consider what your business and your employees need to succeed.

Do we value emotional intelligence - EQ - more than ever? Maybe value isn’t the right word (have you ever been hired following an EQ test? I’d love to hear about it), but we do recognise its importance in our lives.

Many of us dream of leaving the corporate world behind and flying solo but there’s always the fear, will it work?

Edinburgh-based edtech startup, Robotical, has been awarded the Global Innovators Grant from Expo 2020 Dubai, adding a funding boost while the company was in the infancy of its Kickstarter campaign which went on to smash its target of £30,000, raising a total of £43,291. 

"Sustainable businesses are riding the wave of social consciousness to raise finance from a crowd of 'woke' consumers'," says Koodoo, the new equity crowdfunding platform and app that connects sustainable businesses with people who want to invest in the future of the planet.

Whether you’re looking to exit individuals on selling your business, downsizing a department or terminating an employment contract after a fair disciplinary hearing, at some point you will need to part ways with an employee.

Catherine Ainsworth, member of the Dot Project spoke at Fireside Summit 2019 to share the organisation's work within the social sector influencing how approaches to technology can become more responsible. 

If you’re anything like me, you’ll find the process of booking a holiday or city break totally mind-boggling and confusing. While technology has doubtless made the practical process far easier than years gone by, we now have a myriad of choice which I find bamboozling.