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Student entrepreneurs get own pop-up shop in London

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The Launchbox pop-up shop at the Boxpark pop-up mall in Shoreditch will display and sell products made by UCL student entrepreneurs. Read: Daily Mail

Fuelling the dream of clean cars

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“To a man, car manufacturers think hydrogen is the future for vehicles,” said Professor Stephen Bennington (UCL Physics & Astronomy). Read: Telegraph More: Vancouver Sun

London's got chemistry (biology and physics too)

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“I would argue that nowhere in the world has the mix of top universities, the NHS and an entrepreneurial community like London," says Professor Stephen Caddick (UCL Vice Provost for Enterprise). Read: Evening Standard

Contact time a matter of degree

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Development of personalised learning by harnessing technological advances is going to transform higher education. But it will require substantial, long-term investment, says Professor Stephen Caddick. Read: Guardian More: The Conversation

Forget the 80/20 Rule - In Business It's the 1% That Will Deliver Growth

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It's estimated that in the UK only 1% of small businesses are high growth, and that it's these enterprises that have the capacity to make the most substantial impact on unemployment, writes Professor Stephen Caddick (UCL Enterprise). Read: Huffington Post

Academic health science networks: their role and development

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"UCL Partners has always been very focused on translating innovation created in research centres of excellence into meaningful outcomes for patients," said Julian Dixon (UCL Partners). Read: Guardian

Goldman Sachs: The American bank giving British small business a lift

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UCL is one of the partner universities in the Goldman Sachs “10,000 Small Businesses” programme. Read: Times (£) More: Yorkshire Post

UCLB launches new guide for translating university knowledge into Social Enterprise

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From ideas to social enterprise: a guide to utilising university intellectual property for the benefit of society’ was developed collaboratively by UCL, UnLtd, UCL Business PLC (UCLB) and STORM® Skills Training CIC. Read: Science Business

Young entrepreneurs need to think small

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In east London, small businesses are the agile, fast-growing businesses of the future, a beacon in an economy striking for its sluggishness, writes Professor Stephen Caddick (UCL Enterprise). Read: Tech City News

Citations won’t boost bottom line

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“We need to stop being bureaucratic, we need to stop being so risk-averse and we need to foster the culture of entrepreneurship,” Professor Stephen Caddick (UCL Enterprise). Read: THE

This Was Not a Budget for an Aspiration Nation

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Budget day provided an opportunity for the Chancellor to lay out a visionary, comprehensive and, above all, ambitious plan to restore the British economy to health. Sadly we didn't get it, says Professor Stephen Caddick (UCL Enterprise). Read: Huffington Post

The Problem of Antibiotic Resistance Could Provide a Stimulus for Economic Recovery

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If we take the right approach to this major challenge, we could improve our economy along with the health of our nation we have all of the pieces we need at our disposal, but we need concerted action to get them to work together, writes Professor Stephen Caddick (UCL Enterprise). Read: Huffington Post

Master's course give graduates a degree of entrepreneurship

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"With coffee mornings, where students meet technology bosses, and a series of networking events, we are playing a lead role in the government's Silicon Roundabout technology enterprise zone," says Dr Dave Chapman (UCL Enterprise). Read: Guardian

A new campus breed: the 'reluctant entrepreneur'

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Dr Dave Chapman (UCL Management Science & Innovation), says his entrepreneurship masters programme course is attracting lots of interest because of an "increased recognition of entrepreneurship as a career option and UCL's connections with London's burgeoning entrepreneurial eco-system". Read: Guardian

Cameron lauds new Tech City investments

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David Cameron will on Thursday declare progress in his aim of making east London “one of the world’s great technology clusters” with new investments from organisations including UCL. Read: FT (£) Huffington Post Evening Standard

Neuroscientists develop easier way to read papers

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Minimanuscript, a start-up begun by two UCL alumni, was launched last week. Their website -  backed by UCL Advances -  lets registered users post free summaries of research papers. Read: International Herald Tribune

Funding boost for university science departments

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Vince Cable, the Secretary of State for Business, has announced substantial government grants to UCL to help turn research into business. Read: ITV News More: MSN The Engineer

Is RCUK's open-access cash a 'reckless' road to ruin?

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Professor David Price (UCL Vice-Provost, Research), says that the exclusion from the funding formula of PhD studentships - which did not necessarily correlate with direct labour costs - was "clearly contrary to any sensible policy in terms of helping researchers build their careers and publishing record". Read: THE

Taking the measure of entrepreneurs

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Professor Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic (UCL Clinical, Educational & Health Psychology) and colleagues have devised a psychometric test that they reckon can identify and measure the entrepreneur in everyone. Read: FT (£)

People, Not Technology are the Heart of London's Tech City

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“Joanna Shields' appointment will go a long way to cementing the UK - and in particular London - as the world's best prospect for tech innovation, and is a powerful endorsement of the Government's strategy,” says Professor Stephen Caddick (UCL Vice-Provost, Enterprise). Read: Huffington Post

In searching for growth, Cable banks on more of the same

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There is a desperate need to provide capital to both first time and serial entrepreneurs - but pending a miracle, the business secretary's proposals will do nothing to address it, says Professor Stephen Caddick (UCL Vice-Provost, Enterprise). Read: Huffington Post

A Culture of Success Will be the Olympics' Greatest Legacy

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Professor Stephen Caddick (UCL Vice-Provost, Enterprise) talks about how, post-Olympics, our newly instilled culture of self-belief could yet be the greatest legacy. Read: Huffington Post

Open access in research: catch up on the debate

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Professor Stephen Caddick (UCL Vice-Provost, Enterprise) and Dr Paul Ayris (UCL Library Services) comment on the proposal to make all publicly funded research open access. Read: Guardian

Going for broke: how universities can deliver on their economic potential

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UK universities have the opportunity of a generation to build a sustainable economy for the 21st century, but they need to invest in infrastructure, business collaboration and in their people, says Professor Stephen Caddick (UCL Vice-Provost, Enterprise). Read: Guardian

Mapping the Games

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The giant map of London's streets used in the Olympic opening ceremony was created by urban planning and design company Space Syntax and based on analysis of street networks developed at UCL's Bartlett School of Architecture. Read: Daily Mail More: UCL News

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