Growth and Innovation
Growth is the product of your success, but it does not come easily. Fuelled by your innovative ideas and your attention to cutting-edge technology and resources, growth is about riding the momentum.
This section will help you decide if your business is primed for growth and beyond that, it will help you understand how to go about achieving it. You will find resources aimed at helping you:
- understand the implications of expanding your operations; and
- link to activities and organizations that can help you grow.
The Innovation section concentrates on what is perhaps growth's most important asset: your ideas. A major part of growth is change, and innovation is how you capitalize on change, creating better or improved products and services that you can launch into the marketplace. This section offers information on:
- research and development
- commercialization
- product licensing
- financing opportunities for innovation
E-business, the use of the Internet as a business tool, is a major component of growth. Whether you plan to create an online store, use the Internet to process payments or to communicate with your customers, any plans you may have to grow your business should take the mass potential of the Internet into account.
