Support for Business

Support For New Businesses

• Higher Education London Outreach (HELO)
  HELO will deliver a programme of new activities designed to link London-based SME's with UCL and London Business School staff and students to meet business needs and overcome the problems that limit their growth.
• Economic Challenge Investment Fund (ECIF)
  UCL has unveiled a radical, £3.8million package of recession-busting activity designed to support London businesses during the economic downturn and prepare UCL’s own students for entry into an unprecedentedly difficult employment market.
  
• UCL Bright Ideas Awards
  The Bright Ideas Awards aim to help bridge the gap that many new companies find themselves in when they search for their first round of funding.
• UCL Angels
  UCL Angels is an Angel investor group looking to invest in UCL and non-UCL based opportunities.
• Microsoft Bizspark
  BizSpark provides new businesses fast, easy access to current full-featured Microsoft development tools and production licenses of server products.

Commercialisation Support

• UCL Business Plc
  UCL Business Plc provides commercialisation support for spin outs and licensing.
• UCL Consultants
  UCL Consultants connects UCL expertise and applied research with organisations seeking to resolve specific, targeted problems or gain critical advantage in relation to their core activities and market needs.

Knowledge Exchange Mechanisms

• Knowledge Exchange Associates
  The Knowledge Exchange Associate programme delivers knowledge-transfer collaborations between a small or medium-sized enterprise and UCL.
  
• Knowledge Transfer Account
  UCL has developed a programme of exchanging knowledge via its Knowledge Transfer Account - with a wide-range of partners in a variety of ways.
  
• Knowledge Transfer Partnership
  Knowledge Transfer Partnerships provide businesses with access to talented graduates, university expertise and government funding.
• Funded Research Collaborations
  UCL's funded research collaborations with industry are co-ordinated through the Industrial Research Office. Businesses can partner with UCL and benefit from funding through a variety of schemes.

Partnership Programme

• UCL Advances Partnership Programme
  UCL Advances Partnership Programme is a formal scheme through which UCL Advances engages with leading companies and other organisations.

Work Experience

• Voluntary Work Experience
  UCL Advances helps to place students looking for work experience with entrepreneurial, SME and social ventures businesses.
• Work Experience Programme
  UCL Advances co-ordinates UCL's summer work experience programme where UCL graduates are placed for 6-8 week assignemets within companies.

Competitions

• China UK Challenge
  The China-UK Challenge aims to encourage new business ventures between China and the United Kingdom and is intended to simulate the real-world process of entrepreneurs soliciting start-up funds from early-stage investors and venture capital firms. The competition is divided into two challenge tracks: Innovative Business track (for existing businesses) and Tomorrow’s Leaders track (for students)