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22 December 2011: UCL students get on their bikes to win London Entrepreneurs’ Challenge 2011

The festive season has brought good cheer to four teams of students who won awards totaling £13,000 in this year’s London Entrepreneurs’ Challenge, which is managed by UCL Advances. More...

22 December 2011: UCL News review 2011

The past year at UCL has seen a landmark larynx transplant, a lecture from Noam Chomsky, simulated missions to Mars and a Queen’s Anniversary Prize for the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, among many other groundbreaking developments. UCL Communications has created the digital review of the year below: click on the images to discover more. More...

13 December 2011: UCL Philosophy Graduate Finishes Top 30 in Global Entrepreneurship Competition

Chester Mojay-Sinclare, a recent UCL Philosophy graduate and now Consultant Entrepreneur at UCL Business, participated in the 2011 Global Student Entrepreneurship Awards. More...

12 December 2011: Groupon - The Adventure Story! UCL Entrepreneurship Guest Lecture: Nicolas Hantzsch, Director, Groupon UK & Ireland

UCL Classics Student Carolina Mostert summarises the talk below.
Nicolas Hantzsch’s talk did not feel like a lecture. It sounded more like an adventure story, something very unique and unusual.
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8 December 2011: Professor David Price comments on government research strategy

Following the publication of the Innovation and Research Strategy for Growth, Professor David Price, Vice-Provost (Research) at UCL, said: More...

5 December 2011: My Journey”: UCL Entrepreneurship Guest Lecture:  Dale Murray, Angel Investor

Dale Murray’s story is impressive. It begins with a girl leaving home at the age of 16 and starting on an internship program at Price Waterhouse, a top accountancy firm.
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2 December 2011: 10,000 Small Businesses Programme


APPLICATION DEADLINE: Midnight on Friday 9th December 2011.
Apply online via www.ucl.ac.uk/10ksb
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2 December 2011: UCL’s HELO programme reaches out to a new audience for another four years

More than 150 small businesses across London can pay testimony to its success. Last night at an event at UCL, many of them gathered to support UCL Advances’ HELO (Higher Education London Outreach) team as they introduced the programme to a new group of businesses, students and staff. More...

2 December 2011: Funding seminar helps start-ups to find their way through the money maze

Finding capital is one of the biggest challenges for anyone starting up or trying to grow a business. In times of economic deprivation, it’s even harder than usual. To address the issue, HELO (Higher Education London Outreach) and SMILE (Selected Mentors and Interims for London Enterprises), both delivered by UCL Advances, organised a Funding Seminar to debate the benefits, shortcomings and efficacies of different forms of financing for SMEs. More...

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