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SCI-TECH Daresbury has unveiled its strategic partner organisations to boost its business and technical support services for high-tech small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) based on the site.

Grant Thornton, IBM, Marks & Clerk, RTC North, Slater Heelis and The University Of Liverpool have been named as Sci-Tech’s ‘Gold Partners’ for 201718.

Each will offer specialist advice in their field of expertise.

A Sci-Tech spokesman said the companies provide high-level strategic support for businesses based at the campus in areas such as intellectual property, financial and tax management, corporate finance and funding, legal services, scientific research and cloud usage.

The six Gold Partners include RTC North, which specialises in the commercialisation of products brought to market and services and the University Of Liverpool which provides access to technical facilities and expertise, as well as student talent.

The firms will provide the campus’s 120 companies with access to specialist skills and advice at events, seminars and one-to-one sessions.

Sci-Tech said the programme will add to the existing advantages its tenant businesses benefit from the complex having enterprise zone status.

John Downes, Langtree managing director and member of the Sci-Tech Daresbury joint venture board, said: “The high-growth SMEs we have here require access to very specific, high level expertise and technical facilities.

“Sci-Tech Daresbury’s Gold Partner scheme addresses these needs in areas such as commercialisation, finance and taxation, IP management, corporate governance and securing funding.

“We are delighted to have the six on board, a number of which have consistently supported this programme over several years.

“We’re confident that their varied areas of expertise and contacts will prove hugely valuable to the SMEs on site.”