Support
Support For New Businesses
SMILE
- Selected Mentors and Interims for London Enterprises
As
part of entrepreneurial promotion and activities and services to
highlight innovation, UCL Advances (University College London's centre
for entrepreneurship and business interaction) is coordinating a new
initiative (SMILE - Selected Mentors and Interims for London Enterprises)
to help London-based SMEs grow and develop by analysing business needs
and connecting them to business mentors.
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 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
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 UCLAdvances engages with
leading companies and other organisations.
Work Experience
Work
Experience Programme
UCL Advances co-ordinated UCL's summer work experience programme during 2009/2010 where UCL graduates were 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)
Business Support News and Events
An Evening of Innovative Business Support and Awards
UCL is proud to support London Small and Medium Sized
Enterprises with a variety of activities that help address problems they
face from starting up to growth. We would like to invite you to a
reception where we will highlight two of our programs (HELO and SMILE).
We will celebrate the impact that UCL's staff, students and alumni have
had on local enterprises in the last year and the new ways we hope to be
able to help in future."
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Tripbod Teams Up With VisitBritain To offer Visitors A Personal Welcome To Britain
Tripbod.com (a UCL student venture), the travel website offering travellers a ‘friend at the other end’, is launching a unique Welcome to Britain service for VisitBritain's Online Shop customers this week.
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An Audience with Mark Prisk – Minister for Business and Enterprise
On the 21st September Mark Prisk came to UCL to speak to an audience gathered together by Capital Enterprise (the membership body for deliverers of enterprise support in London). He gave an enlightening and forthright speech, and then participated whole heartedly in a Q&A session on the future of Enterprise support and the priorities of his Department of Business. More...
Alive and Giving - UCL Advances first Hatchling Announced!
Alive and Giving.com are one of the first companies to be based in the UCL Advances Student Business Hatchery. The purpose of the hatchery is to provide a base for new student led businesses when they first need it and to help prepare them for their upcoming life as full grown businesses in the outside world. More...
Kit4Troops Launch Website
Two postgraduate students have launched a website www.kit4troops.org.uk to help British
troops get the kit they need while on active service. Members of the public wishing to make gifts to serving British troops will now be able to donate items specifically requested by soldiers, thanks to Kit4Troops, a unique website created by two UCL students.
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Business support events viewer
Consultancy Projects Informative Session
If you are a UCL student or academic interested in participating in a student consultancy project, you can come to our information session. More...
Starts: Jun 19, 2013 2:00:00 PM
