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ENTREPRENEURSHIP FORUM The aim of our Entrepreneurship Forum is to encourage and support social enterprise and student entrepreneurship at the University and also to unite the corporate community, whose interests lie in entrepreneurship and innovation, with the University's world-class academic/research community. This is achieved through the following initiatives: Entrepreneur-in-Transit Scheme Open Innovation Entrepreneurship Forum Social Enterprise IQuBIT and Student Enterprise Entrepreneur-in-Transit Scheme Update… Following the success of the Entrepreneur-in-Transit (EiT) scheme in the School of Physics and Astronomy, in which two Entrepreneurs were assigned to academic projects, the EiT scheme has now been expanded into the Faculty of Humanities. In November, we welcomed John Leach, entrepreneur and alumnus of the University, to join us as the dedicated Entrepreneur-in-Residence for the Faculty of Humanities. John has spent over 20 years working with passionate people, projects and businesses and his company, Winning Pitch, was an early tenant at one of UMIC's business incubators. The business has grown to become a national brand specialising in business enhancement and personal growth involved in major delivery contracts for the public and private sector. John is a firm believer in R&D and commits a large amount of time to researching his markets and then developing new IP and innovating through learning. He has published a number of books on his passion for high growth business and individuals and he is extremely interested in helping shape new potential enterprises from research in social sciences and humanities. The expansion of the scheme aims to prime research project outputs that have the potential to yield "real world" impact by injecting additional entrepreneurial flair alongside leading domain expertise and knowledge. Outputs might be a spin-out, licence, service business or other joint venture. If you would like to know more, please contact Ellie Sagar, ellie.sagar@umip.com 0161 606 7265, for further information. Open Innovation Update… interest in innovation, offer an insight into their specific areas of interest. Information is shared which gives our academic innovators and UMIP colleagues an opportunity to explore potential development and commercialisation opportunities. Over the last 12 months, we have showcased high profile companies in the following sectors: Our Open Innovation initiative continues to provide a platform for the corporate community, whose interests lie in entrepreneurship and innovation, to link up with IP based projects from our portfolio of novel technologies. Our initiative operates through a series of tailored events in which companies, with an • • • • • Pharmaceutical Healthcare Service Engineering Venture Capital to facilitate early stage collaborations/partnerships on specific technologies and co-funded initiatives in sectors of interest. If you would like to share your companies' latest 'most wanted' areas of interest with us and take the opportunity to discuss potential collaborative opportunities for future developments, through a series of 1-2-1 meetings, please contact Dr Laura Etchells laura.etchells@umip.com on 0161 606 7264 to discuss further. We invite the business community to connect with us 7