Entrepreneur-in-Transit Update…
The Entrepreneur-in-Transit (EiT)
scheme continues to contribute
actively to the development
of early stage IP projects from
across the campus including
Computer Science; Population
Health; Architecture; Physics and
Astronomy; Synthetic Biology;
and Planning and Environmental
Management. The EiT structure
is now embedded across UMIP,
facilitating both IP driven
commercial opportunities and
Social Enterprise Ventures which
address a social need.
For more information, please
contact ellie.buckley@umip.com.
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EiT Wordle
Student Enterprise Update…
Our Student Enterprise activity
is facilitated through a strong
strategic partnership with the
Manchester Enterprise Centre
(MEC). Together we have
developed three Enterprise
Associate roles to operate as
the 'The student face of UMIP/
MEC for enterprise activity',
working closely with us to
develop engagement methods
and initiatives to stimulate
entrepreneurship at the PhD
level through to PDRAs. The
aim of the role is to help early
career scientists understand
what support and funding
opportunities are available
to them for enterprise/
commercialisation. The
Enterprise Associates have been
a resounding success, leading
keynote speaker events in each
faculty, engaging with over
200 PhD and research students,
resulting in 5 student led
research disclosures to the team.
If you have the motivation and
drive to progress your idea or
innovation, please contact us to
find out more about the support
available to you.
laura.etchells@umip.com;
ellie.buckley@umip.com.
Social Enterprise Update…
Working with our Social
Enterprise award winners to
develop a bespoke package of
support focusing on business
planning and securing funding.
Through our continued
activity with UnLtd we are also
encouraging some of the more
advanced social ventures to
move towards scale and growth
for sustainability.
Our ever popular Just Social
series of workshops, being led by
the newly appointed UMIP Social
Enterprise Ambassador, Nicci
Dickins from Make it Happen
Consultancy Ltd, continues to
bring together entrepreneurs to
focus on key areas such as legal
structures, stakeholder mapping,
social value accounting and
many others.
