A new initiative that brings together University researchers, millionaire entrepreneurs, successful start-ups and aspiring student innovators has been launched in London.
Future Worlds is a new platform, which focuses on the business of invention and entrepreneurship, highlighting the innovative commercial opportunities being developed by researchers and students at the University. By providing exclusive access to events, support, and mentors with a global network of contacts, Future Worlds helps turn these opportunities into market-ready solutions for a range of industries.
The launch saw five aspiring entrepreneurs – ranging from an undergraduate student to a professor – pitching their businesses, with investment opportunities as varied as multipurpose, portable medical tests, and an augmented real-time map technology for disaster response.
Also speaking at the event was mobile software engineer, Southampton alumnus and Arieso founder, Shirin Dehghan. Arieso was critical to supporting mobile networks at the advent of 3G, and was sold for $85m in 2013.
Shirin said:
“It’s fantastic to see enterprise-minded people at the University of Southampton working together on this model example of a start-up community. This is much needed in the UK and the more universities that follow the example of Future Worlds the better.”
You can read the full press release here.