In the past 12 months we have assisted over 1,500 individual entrepreneurs and companies, giving impartial advice and support on a range of issues from starting a business to technology transfer and exploitation.

Technology Enterprise Kent TEK is a non-profit making organisation, offering impartial information and advice to support individual entrepreneurs, innovators, new business start ups and established businesses in Kent and South East England.  In pursuing this goal, TEK works closely with individuals, small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs), regional development agencies, local government, universities, research institutes, technology providers and innovation supply chain practitioners.

TEK also works with the European Union, undertaking Research & Technology Development (RTD) projects that serve to quantify how SMEs assimilate and respond to the ever-changing environment in which they operate  Current EU funded projects involve disseminating and sharing research results and improving the awareness, understanding and delivery of the Industrial Property System particularly to SME's.

TEK also manages 69 workshop/incubator units and offices for new business start ups in Kent with over 250 tenants on three sites. 

TEK incorporates Kent Technology Transfer Centre and the Enterprise Agency of East Kent.  It comprises inter alia: The European Business and Innovation Centre (BIC Kent) and the South East England Innovation Relay Centre (SEEIRC). 

The company has offices at:

• Research & Development Building
  University of Kent
  Canterbury
  CT2 7PD
  
• White Cliffs Business Centre, Honeywood Road, Whitfield
  Dover, Kent
  CT16 3EH
  

For more information, contact info@technologyenterprise.co.uk