Tools
In this section, find trusted tools to grow your business at national, European and global levels in the areas of: finance and funding, protecting your idea, business/trade support and legal regulatory support. Use the filters to find the most helpful tool for you under the available categories.
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Protecting your ideas
Horizon IP Scan service
Horizon IP Scan is a tailored, free-of-charge, first-line IP support service provided by the Europea...
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Legal and regulatory support
eSearch plus
Search trade marks, designs, owners, representatives, bulletins and EUIPO decisions in one single ap...
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Funding and Investment
SME Fund
Get financial support for intellectual property (IP) applications and IP Scan.
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Funding and Investment
SME risk management: sustainability
How to mitigate sustainability risks and turn them into business opportunities.
Private Organisation
EN
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Free
Legal and regulatory support
Access2Markets
A trade assistant tool provided by the European Commission, to be used when exporting from the EU or...
Public Organisation
EN
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Free
Business / Trade support
WHOIS .eu domain name search
Check the availability of a .eu domain name using the WHOIS search tool.
Public Organisation
EN
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Free
Protecting your ideas
EU Plant variety database
The database offers a search tool for all the agricultural and vegetable plant varieties whose seed...
Public Organisation
EN
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Protecting your ideas
Espacenet
Espacenet offers free access to worldwide information about inventions and technical developments.
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EN
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Protecting your ideas
IPscore
IPscore is a tool to evaluate patents, technologies and research projects.
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