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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
Support For New Businesses
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 funding.
Proof of
Concept Fund
UCL Business can provide
proof of concept funds to UCL researchers.
University
Challenge Funds
These funds can be accessed through UCL
Business.
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.
UCL Awards for Enterprise
The UCL Awards for
Enterprise honour the efforts and accomplishments of UCL’s innovative
and entrepreneurial academics and students.
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.
UCL Funding Opportunities
UCL Advances Enterprise Scholarships
UCL Advances provides funding of £4,000 per person to UCL PhD students to cover costs for a three month extension to enable a chapter to be written on the commercial evaluation of a science or technology PhD project.
UCL Enterprise Funding Opportunities
UCL Enterprise highlights funding opportunities for UCL researchers.
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Competitions
London Entrepreneurs' Challenge
The
E-Challenge is a series of workshops and business plan competition
designed to introduce participants to fundamental business concept.
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.
External Funding & Support
Researcher Support News
New guide for translating university knowledge into social enterprise launches
A guide which seeks to assist staff in UK higher education institutions in transforming their research and ideas into successful social ventures is being launched today by a consortium of UCL, social enterprise company UnLtd, UCLB and STORM® Skills Training CIC.
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UCL toasts the best and brightest of its student/business collaborations
It started as an idea picked up at a conference in the US. Two years later, around 400 students and academics from UCL and London Business School are or have been involved in a variety of projects for more than 100 SMEs across 30 different industries under the auspices of UCL Advances’ HELO (Higher Education London Outreach) programme. To date over 150 businesses have signed up to the HELO programme. More...
