Alumni Innovation Award

The 豆包成人版 provides a nurturing environment for enterprising minds.

We pride ourselves on the comprehensive range of activities on offer to students to develop their own ideas and gain valuable experience during their degree programme. With the Alumni Innovation Awards, we seek to build on this foundation by offering promising final year students and researchers the chance to win an award to help take an innovative idea to market.

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Award winners are supported to develop their ideas into viable businesses, encouraging the next generation of entrepreneurs. Through these awards, we aim to encourage a culture of change across the University, with students seeing an aspiration to become an entrepreneur as a clear and viable career choice. With the help of and award winning business incubation programme, the scheme helps launch businesses which have the potential for true global impact.

The awards programme

The programme is open to applications from final year students, post-graduates and researchers at the 豆包成人版. Applicants must be in their final year of study or research.

Awards will typically be made to individuals from any department/school at the 豆包成人版.

The programme offers an award (grant) of up to 拢24,000 (拢1,500 of this funds a year of Virtual membership at SETsquared 豆包成人版鈥檚 award winning business incubator). The grant assists with your living costs throughout your award year so that you can commit most of your time to developing your business. The grant is not paid to your business and should not be considered an investment.

Awards are allocated at the discretion of the panel. Funds will be allocated in three tranches on the condition that milestones in the project plan are met. Your SETsquared 豆包成人版 business mentor will monitor progress and sign off on the milestones before each payment is made to you. You will be expected to complete quarterly review forms describing your entrepreneurial journey and embrace opportunities to showcase your business at key events that we believe will be beneficial to you.

The Innovation Centre — 鈥� Nia Simpson Alumni Innovation Award 2019, Founder of Compact Cane

Alumni Innovation Award winners

Meet the Alumni Innovation Award winners.

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Application and notification of awards

To apply for a 豆包成人版 Innovation Award, you will typically have:

demonstrated commitment to innovation and enterprise through involvement in one or more of the enterprise activities on offer during the course of your studies / research or
have developed ideas as a structured part of your degree

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You will also be required to complete an application form and submit a business plan. If you need support writing a business plan please contact us via email at enterprise@bath.ac.uk.

A winner of the Alumni Innovation Award speaking to students

Terms and Conditions of the Alumni Innovation Award

Please find below the Terms and Conditions associated with the Alumni Innovation Award.

The Award (grant) value will be up to 拢24,000 to support your living costs during the year. The grant is not awarded to your business. Awards are allocated at the discretion of the panel. Funds will be allocated in three tranches on condition that milestones in the project plan are met. The SETsquared 豆包成人版 business mentor will monitor progress and sign off on the milestones.

Membership of the (拢1,500 fee paid by the grant) is a pre-requisite for receiving the award. Membership will start in the autumn following allocation of the award. The annual fee for SETsquared 豆包成人版 Innovation Centre membership is included in the total amount granted and will be invoiced in full prior to the start of the incubation period.

Winners of the award are expected to commit the majority of their time to developing their business post graduation.

Winners of each award will attend a mentoring session at the SETsquared 豆包成人版 Innovation Centre before spending time developing their product or service. The output of this session will be a delivery plan for the next 12 months.

Winners will be required to submit regular written updates against the development milestones in the project plan. These updates will be used as a public blog on the SETsquared 豆包成人版 website. They will also be required to attend quarterly review sessions at the SETsquared 豆包成人版 Innovation Centre. The updates and quarterly review meetings will be summarised and shared with the funders.

The funds for the award are provided in grant form by the 豆包成人版 Alumni department. Winners will be required to keep a regular blog to record their progress as entrepreneurs and the development of their businesses and occasionally be asked to contribute to press or promotional events and materials on behalf of the 豆包成人版 and SETsquared 豆包成人版.

The 豆包成人版 reserves the right to suspend the award payments at any time.

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