The funding call is now open after a budget in excess of £1.5M (a combination of University HEIF and IAA allocations) was earmarked for the competition which will run until March 2017.
The fund is aimed at stimulating activities which take research from the lab into the wider world. This could be using expertise in collaboration with a business partner, looking at developing a spin-out, setting up a secondment or running events on how best to engage with industry.
The Enterprise Competition will be providing support for entrepreneurial projects and initiatives which stimulate business engagement both within and across Faculties.
Eligible projects will include:
- Knowledge Transfer through People
- inwards and outwards secondments/internships
- Early Commercialisation Projects
- technology development/market assessment/licensing/spin out formation
- Stakeholder/Industry Engagement
- strategic partnership development with business, central and local Government, or Third Sector organisations
- Driving Culture Change
- Industry showcase events/ best practice workshops/training programmes aimed at enhancing impact of research
- Other innovative proposals to create non-academic impact from research.
The competition will operate on an open-call basis; applications will be accepted at any time and will be reviewed on a quarterly basis boards.
This call closes on Thursday 14 May 2015 and you can find more information here.
For any queries please contact [email protected]