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Entrepreneurship and enterprise
The centre for entrepreneurship at UCL, UCL Advances,
offers training, networking and business support for staff, students and
external entrepreneurs to encourage and enable new enterprises to get
going.
Unique in the UK Higher Education sector, its primary role is to
promote a culture of entrepreneurship on campus and engagement with
entrepreneurs and small businesses beyond UCL's boundaries, and
currently delivers over 30 activity programmes.
UCL Advances is affiliated with UCL Enterprise, which provides UCL’s structures for engaging with business for commercial and societal benefit.
UCL Enterprise at a glance
- First university to have a five-year strategy for Enterprise activities
- An average of over 200 students sponsored by industry each year, totaling over 1,200 in the last six years
- 2,500+ student places on programmes to support and develop entrepreneurs
- $8m+ of venture capital raised by UCL student-led companies in 2012
- £300m research portfolio involving collaboration with business and industry
- Over 85 staff across UCL Enterprise by end of 2011/12
Enterprise headlines
Student entrepreneurs get own pop-up shop in London
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 More...
Published: Jun 10, 2013 1:49:27 PM
Fuelling the dream of clean cars
“To a man, car manufacturers think hydrogen is the future for vehicles,” said Professor Stephen Bennington (UCL Physics & Astronomy). Read: Telegraph More: Vancouver Sun
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Published: May 27, 2013 3:55:00 PM
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