UCL Advances
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- Published on Friday, 13 May 2011 18:19
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UCL Advances is the centre for entrepreneurship and business interaction at UCL. It exists to stimulate collaboration amongst researchers, business and investors, driving innovations that benefit society and the economy, with a particular focus on new businesses and SME engagement.
As part of its mission, UCL Advances works to support start-ups and small businesses across London by helping them to access the technical and business expertise of UCL’s staff and students through a series of programmes to help support ambitious young companies.
Contribution to the Open Innovation Project
UCL Advances is leading on a programme of activities that will bring Open Innovation to student, academic, business and wider communities through:
- Citrus Saturday, an entrepreneurship day designed to get young people to start to think like entrepreneurs and to understand that they can determine their own success through hard work and determination.
- Business and enterprise training ‘Bootcamps’ to give high growth start-ups access to the know-how, money and contacts to start a growth business.
- The creation and development of an Open Innovation network: EPIC (European Pre-Incubation Consortium) which will facilitate knowledge-sharing, collaboration, and joint problem-solving between entrepreneurs.
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Open Innovation showcase events to highlight young companies that have successfully applied Open Innovation strategies.
Practical, hands-on Open Innovation Challenges, such as Ideastock, which bring together collaborative groups to rapidly brainstorm and prototype new products and services. - British Innovation Awards, Open Innovation Challenge, Briefing/Pre-session: April 2012
Project team
Timothy Barnes – UCL Advances Executive Director
Jack Wratten – Citrus Saturday
John Spindler & Carly Lloyd - Bootcamp
Dave Chapman & Madalina Nazare (from 18 February 2013) - Challenge
Lillian Shapiro - EPIC
Further information
Madalina Nazare, Project Manager: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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