There are various ways through which the government assists MSME and Start-ups. In India the Government assists them through Incubators and Research parks.

Incubators provide a business assistance to early-stage companies. They have staff that deliver and coordinate business assistance to entrepreneurs, with the aim of leading the entrepreneur to self-sufficiency within a limited time.

In general, every incubator has its own system and the incubated company should get assistance, in terms of:
•Flexible list terms of space
•Share services support, photocopy,
•Meeting room
•Business assistance
•Networking opportunities
•Resource matching

In the research park, the physical environment is expected to attract and generate science and technology companies and talents, in alignment with sponsoring researches to do

Various Government Schemes and policies
•SIP – EIT
•Scheme to Support IPR Awareness
•Stand-Up India
•WEP (Women Entrepreneurship platform)
•Dairy Entrepreneurship Development Scheme
•Agro processing Cluster Scheme
•Biotechnology Ignition Grant (BIG)
•PRISM
•Aspire
•Entrepreneurial and managerial Development of SMEs Through Incubators


Along with your entrepreneurial activity, your business expansion can be based on IP and if you have protected it, that would be very easier for you to do the contractual arrangements and get benefit out of that particular thing. How to relate IP to the various stage of entrepreneurship



The major IP include:
•Patent (technology)
•Trade secret (know how)
•Trademark (branding)
•Industrial design (aesthetics)
•Copyright (expression)

Since you know these kinds of IP and how to protect them; you should be careful when you are going through the various stage of entrepreneurship and use them to protect your business. You should leverage a particular an IP to get a competitive advantage, leading to business expansion