Product Description:
VentureVersity is a newly funded collaboration between Leicester, Loughborough and De Montfort Universities plus the wider local entrepreneurial community to help turn academic ideas into commercial reality via spin-outs and business collaborations.
Successful applicants will receive support from friendly experienced entrepreneurs, advisors, and investors, plus a chance to win funding of up to £50,000 and a place on a unique commercialisation accelerator programme.
Area of Expertise:
Start-up
Pre-Start
Funding
Spin-outs
Business collaborations.
Eligibility:
What you need: -
• Novel ideas with commercial potential
• An enquiring mind
• Enthusiasm to try something new.
What you don’t need: -
• Previous business experience
• Detailed business plans
• Specific sector or discipline ideas
Districts:
- Leicester City
- Blaby
- Charnwood
- Oadby and Wigston
- Melton
- Harborough
- Northwest Leicestershire
- Bosworth and Hinckley