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Welcome to Widener SBDC |
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Helping Businesses Start, Grow and Prosper...
Founded in January 2007, Widener University Small Business Development Center is one of 18 SBDCs in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The center provides free and confidential consulting services to entrepreneurs as well as educational workshops for which we charge a nominal fee. Widener SBDC is strongly committed to helping small businesses. While our workshops are open to all, our consulting services are generally limited to for-profit ventures. We are conveniently located in the University Technology Park (UTP-2) building at 1350 Edgmont Avenue in Chester, PA.
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Planning for the H1N1 Influenza |
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 Every business plays a key role in ensuring its employees’ health and safety as well as limiting the impact to the economy and society during an influenza pandemic. If you do not have a contingency plan for responding to an influenza outbreak currently in place - don't panic, but don't wait any longer.
Click here to connect to resources available at the PA SBDC. |
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We've all seen the headlines: "Millions in free government money for your business." Late-night infomercials and Internet advertisements promise grants to start or expand a business. Sound too good to be true? It is.
Click here for the facts about government grants. |
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Protect Your Small Business |
Much of today's intellectual property theft occurs on-line, so monitor the Internet for potential counterfeiting in addition to your marketplace monitoring. You also may wish to monitor trade journals to learn about foreign markets or industry sectors being exploited by intellectual property thieves.
To learn more about protecting your intellectual property rights, please visit:
• www.stopfakes.gov/smallbusiness - the U.S. government site dedicated to small businesses:
• www.uspto.gov - the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office site, a comprehensive go-to source for intellectual property information.
• www.copyright.gov - the U.S. Copyright Office site with comprehensive information on copyright.
• www.cbp.gov - the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) site, with information on recordation of registered U.S. trademarks and copyrighted works with the CBP.
• 1-866-999-HALT - to report IP theft.
• www.wipo.int - the web site of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), with information on the Patent Cooperation Treaty and the Madrid Protocol. |
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