Spotlight
The 2011/2012 UCL Enterprise Annual Review
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"It’s been an excellent start to the five-year plan for Enterprise and you can read more in this review. But such is the strength, depth and diversity of our activities that it can only reflect a small proportion of the outstanding work of the UCL community. Every member of UCL is to be congratulated for a tremendously successful year and with the promise of much, much more to come."
Prof Stephen Caddick
Vice-Provost (Enterprise)
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News and Views
News
London's got Chemistry (biology and physics too)
With the development of two new £1 billion research parks and a host of world class superboffins working here, the capital is at the nucleus of a serious science explosion. Joshi Herrmann distils the data. More...
UCL biochemical engineering team triumph at Oxford Biotech Roundtable business plan competition
Two members of the UCL Biochemical Engineering department at UCL have won a business plan competition at the Oxford Biotech Roundtable, securing £100,000 of investment in their business, Puridify.
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UCL ranked number one collaborator in the UK for biomedical industry partnerships
UCL has ranked the leading institution in the UK as a partner for industry within the biotechnology and pharmaceutical sectors compiled by the Nature Biotechnology journal. More...
Events
Academic Enterprise Awards 2013
The ACES - Academic Enterprise Awards - are the only pan-European awards for spin-out companies emerged from European universities and public research centres. The ACES programme is presented by the Science|Business Innovation Board. More...
Distance Learning Forum and inaugural CPD and Short Courses Forum
The third and final Distance Learning Forum of the 2012-13 year, offered in association with the inaugural CPD and Short Courses Forum will take place on Wednesday, 3 July 2013 from 15:00 to 17:00 in the Wilkins Old Refectory.
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Triple Helix 2013
The Triple Helix in a context of global change: continuing, mutating or unravelling?
Never has the Triple Helix mission been more timely. Globally the economy faces significant challenges – unemployment, low or no growth, spiralling healthcare needs, rapidly emerging digital business models, unsustainable changes to the environment. The need for universities and businesses to work together and take action alongside governments is critical. More...
Views
MOOCs or campus? In the future, you choose
By Stephen Caddick, Vice-Provost (Enterprise) at UCL
A napster moment; the end of boring lectures;
a tipping point. These are all common responses to the emergence of
MOOCs – Massive Open Online Courses. Now, simply using a laptop or iPad,
hundreds of thousands of students can tune in to lectures from anywhere around the globe More...
Young entrepreneurs need to think small
By Stephen Caddick, Vice-Provost (Enterprise) at UCL
Small is beautiful – and nowhere more so than in Tech City. The area is defined, by the startups and small, rapidly growing companies that cluster there; some 1300 tech companies charged with dynamism and entrepreneurial energy. More...
This Was Not a Budget for an Aspiration Nation
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). More...
