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Support For New Businesses
Hatchery
Space
If you are creating your own business you will need somewhere to run it from. UCL Advances, the Centre for Entrepreneurship and Business Interaction, can provide free office space in our Student Business Hatchery for appropriate cases.
Business Advice
UCL Advances business advisors can provide students
(undergraduate and postgraduate) and recent alumni with business support to
start, develop and progress their 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.
HELO (Higher
Education London Outreach)
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.
Knowledge Exchange Mechanisms
Knowledge Exchange Associates
The
Knowledge Exchange Associate programme delivers knowledge-transfer
collaborations between a small or medium-sized
enterprise and UCL.
ECIF (Economic Challenge Investment Fund)
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.
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).
External Funding & Support
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.
Find out more about PhD Scholarships >>
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 UCL Awards for Enterprise >>
Competitions
London
Entrepreneurs' Challenge
The
E-Challenge is a series of workshops and business plan competition
designed to introduce participants to fundamental business concept.
CleanTech
Challenge
This is a unique platform
through which students are involved in a simulated challenge to bring
innovative clean technology ideas from the concept phase to a stage in
which they would attract Series A funding or otherwise be
self-sustainable.
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.
Student Support News
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