Apply for the Bridgehead Accelerator
The EIT Health Bridgehead programme provides support to scale-ups to validate their businesses beyond their home markets. The Bridgehead programme operates within two distinct tracks to meet the start-ups’ demands: Bridgehead Europe and Bridgehead Global. Both programmes are similar in structure but differ in organisation. Bridgehead Europe aims at helping start-ups expand their business beyond their home market into a different European country, and Bridgehead Global aims at internationalisation beyond Europe.
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Secure an equity-free support package of funding and training support worth up to £90,000
The Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) Enterprise Fellowships offer a leading business development and training programme for the higher education sector; enabling researchers to develop into world-class entrepreneurs. Two Big Ears, an Enterprise Fellowship alumni recently sold their company to social media giants, Facebook.
The fellowship provides a wealth of beneficial business support worth up to £90,000.
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Grant Writer in Residence | Kate Fryer
We’re pleased to announce we have a new expert on our in-residency services team.
Kate Fryer has experience of writing successful bids, facilitating evaluations and drafting grant funding calls. She can offer you an insight that will give you more clarity on how best to approach writing and presenting your bid. Kate can help to identify a funding call, provide oversight and 'hands-on' support to writing your bid.
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STBAH | Sustainable Fashion and Cosmetics January networking event roundup
Thursday 23rd January saw the first Sustainable Technologies Business Acceleration Hub (STBAH) networking event of the year. These informal events bring together liked minded people to hear from speakers within certain sustainable sectors.
Held at the Huntsman in Bath the focus for this event was on sustainability in the fashion and cosmetic sector.
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Professional residency services now available to all Business Acceleration Hub participants
All current participants of our Business Acceleration Hubs (Sustainable Technologies, Digital Innovation and Advanced Engineering) are being invited to make use of the free expert advice we have available at the Innovation Centre.
We offer regular 1:1 slots with a range of professionals who are experts in their fields such as an Accountant, Lawyer, Grant Writer, IP Lawyer and Tax Advisers. These are usually only available to our members but if you are partaking in a Business Acceleration Hub then you can now use this extremely useful and free service too.
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New Member | Welcome 'Well Professor? Ltd'
A warm welcome to SETsquared Bath goes to Well Professor? Ltd.
Well Professor? will be joining us as Virtual Members in February 2020 and we have written a post about this digital health tech company so you can get to know the new faces you’ll soon be seeing at the Innovation Centre!
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Venture capital funding competition of £25k to support the commercialisation of Materials Science research or technology
The Armourers & Brasiers’ Company (a livery company in the City of London) run an annual venture capital funding competition for a prize of £25,000 to support the commercialisation of Materials Science research or technology.
Entries are now invited for the 2020 competition.
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New open call as University awarded further funding for Impact Acceleration Account
The IAA supports knowledge exchange and impact activities of our EPSRC researchers across the institution. Funds have been invested in speeding up the contribution that research makes towards new innovation across industry, business and the public sector.
As a result of the successful use of funds, the University will receive further IAA funding from the EPSRC of nearly £480,000 for the period April 2020 to March 2021.
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NCR Announces Acquisition Of Edge Virtualisation Technology Provider Zynstra
NCR Corporation (NYSE: NCR), a global enterprise technology company for the retail, hospitality and banking industries, today announced the acquisition of U.K. based Zynstra, a provider of edge virtualisation technology.
NCR and Zynstra have worked together for several years, reflected in the launch of NCR Software Defined Store introduced in January 2019 and in use by companies like Pilot Flying J. This unique, subscription-based virtualisation solution is one of the critical pillars of NCR’s next-generation store architecture for the retail and hospitality industries.
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Support available to attend Fuel Cell Hydrogen Joint Undertaking (FCHJU) 2020 Call Info Day, Brussels
Innovate UK and the Knowledge Transfer Network are offering UK-based R&D performing SMEs the opportunity to receive a contribution of up to £500 towards travel and accommodation costs to attend the FCHJU Information Day and networking opportunity in Brussels, Belgium. The event is being held on 27th January 2020 and the deadline to apply for a contribution is Tuesday 7th January.
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SETsquared Bristol launch pre-incubation programme for new women-led businesses
SETsquared Bristol has partnered with NatWest’s Back Her Business initiative, supported by Crowdfunder, to launch a free programme to help women-formed businesses access world class business support, which includes workshops, coaching and mentoring from expert advisors, as well as support to launch a crowdfunding campaign.
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Alumni Innovation Award open | Apply now
Do you have an idea for a business that could bring true global impact? Are you a final year student or university researcher who would like the opportunity to be fully-funded for a whole year to work solely on your business? Apply for the Alumni Innovation Award and you could win a grant of £15,000 plus the support of SETsquared Bath Innovation Centre. Now open for applications …
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Statsbomb win Football Business Innovation award
Congratulations to our member Statsbomb Services who scooped the prestigious Football Innovation in Business award at the 2019 Football Business Awards, hosted by fcbusiness magazine.
Clubs from across the Premier League, EFL and SPFL joined sponsors, partners, charities and businesses to celebrate exceptional work in football across 24 categories at a black tie awards ceremony at City Central at the HAC in Finsbury, London.
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New Research Associate for the Advanced Engineering Business Acceleration Hub
The Advanced Engineering Business Acceleration Hub (AEBAH) has confirmed the appointment of Dr Kyriakos Kallis, as the newly appointed Research Associate for the business acceleration programme. The AEBAH is funded under the EU European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and provides free business support to start ups and SMEs in Advanced Engineering in the Automotive, Maritime, Aerospace, Energy, Defence and Space sectors.
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LDV20 Open Innovation Programme has been launched!
We have been asked to share the LDV20 Open Innovation Programme with our members and network. There’s not long to apply so if your field of interest covers: robotics, logistics, energy efficiency, and new B2C sales network solutions then read on to find out more.
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Celebrating three years of accelerating social enterprise and innovation
On 26 November we held a Celebration and Showcase for the Programme at the Guildhall. This followed a larger scale event at We the Curious in Bristol on 21 October, entitled The New Western Frontier, for over 300 delegates from the social enterprise network. Both took place to showcase the Programme and the achievements of the individuals and enterprises it has supported.
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Meet SETsquared Bath's interim Centre Director
Brian Prescott is the new Centre Director at the University of Bath’s SETsquared Innovation Centre and Entrepreneur in Residence for the ERDF Advanced Engineering Business Acceleration Hub.
A Mancunian, his early career followed a science degree and began in sales with Duracell. Frustration at the lack of opportunity spawned a move to London, where Brian joined the rapidly-growing PKFA hotel management consultancy becoming the Firth’s youngest ever consultant before moving into marketing with Trusthouse Forte.
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Parsec Accelerator | Equity-Free Funding
Calling all SMEs, startups, researchers and entrepreneurs!
Share your vision for the emerging sectors of food, energy and environment.
Benefit from equity-free funding, business catalysts, learning, mentorship and networking.
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South West Creative Technology Network calls for fellows in data
SWCTN is interested in fellowship proposals that encompass bold, creative, challenging, cross-sector thinking in the broad field of data. This includes the social and ethical challenges around data capture and storage, data retrieval, data bias, data ownership, data literacy, as well as the role of data in sustainability across issues relating to, for example, the climate emergency, Internet of Things and Smart Cities.
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KPMG’s Best British Tech Pioneer (BBTP) 2020 competition
Since launching BBTP in 2013, this annual competition has been propelling forward the game changers, the disruptors and tech titans of tomorrow. BBTP finalists receive an incredible opportunity to profile their businesses to senior corporate decision makers, investors and the media. This includes presenting their business at Mobile World Congress (MWC) and Four Years from Now (4YFN) in Barcelona, February 2020 - the world’s largest annual mobile industry gathering.
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