Support
Support For New Businesses
Tier 1 Graduate Entrepreneur Visa Initiative
The Tier 1 (Graduate Entrepreneur) visa is for those
graduates identified by UCL as having developed a viable business idea,
but who are not yet able to apply for a Tier 1 Entrepreneur visa.
Successful applicants will be allowed a 12 month visa and
the opportunity to apply for a second 12 month visa if the business is
making progress.
Business Mentoring
We help London-based businesses grow and develop by analysing business needs and connecting them to industry mentors.
Student Consultancy Projects
Teams of volunteer UCL and LBS students get paired with businesses to deliver short-term consultancy projects.
Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs
The programme aims to foster
entrepreneurship across Europe, by linking young and aspiring entrepreneurs
with experienced entrepreneurs in another member state of the European Union.
ECIF (Economic
Challenge Investment Fund)
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 informal angels group that provides seed investment to student-led companies and other London SMEs engaged with UCL Advances programmes.
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 gaincritical advantage in relation to their core
activities and marketneeds.
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
Businesses can partner with UCL and benefit from funding through a variety of schemes.
Work Experience
Student Internship Programme
Especially
designed to help students gain real-life workplace experience and
entrepreneurial skills, and back by popular demand, UCL Advances is
re-launching their business support initiative called ‘SIP’ (the UCL
Student Internship Programme).
UCL Awards for Enterprise
The UCL Awards for
Enterprise honour the efforts and accomplishments of UCL’s innovative
and entrepreneurial academics and students.
Find out more about the UCL Awards for Enterprise >>
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.
Partnership Programme
UCL
Advances Partnership Programme
UCL Advances Partnership
Programme is a formal scheme through which UCLAdvances engages with
leading companies and other organisations.
Business Support News
Helping hand of SMILE programme prepares Fulham Clinic for next stage of expansion
As mentoring requests go, it wasn’t the usual type of request which Ruth Hou, business support manager at UCL Advances, deals with in her role of overseeing mentoring for small business in London – a trichologist, or hair and scalp care specialist, looking to expand her London clinic. More...
Apps, Apps, Apps!
On 25 and 26 October UCL Advances, with UCL Engineering, will be taking a stand at Droidcon. Droidcon is part of a worldwide movement to expose the best of Android. It covers all things Android, from mobile devices, to TV, to cars, to gaming, and so much more.
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