The Enterprise Fellowship Programme offered by the Royal Academy of Engineering Enterprise Hub is now open for applications.
This programme is for researchers, recent graduates or international PhD students based in the UK who have developed an innovative idea within their universities/research institutes, who are at a relatively advanced stage of readiness for commercialisation and are considering setting up a company.
If the above applies to you and you wish to pursue a career at the centre of a start-up or spin out company, then Enterprise Fellowship offers to support you setting up a company by providing you with up to £60,000 equity-free funding, training and mentoring, PR, marketing and promotion, access to the Taylor Centre and access to networks of investors, experts and advisers as well as other entrepreneurs.
This is a full-time commitment (1/01/2020 – 31/12/2020) in the sense that you cannot have another role whilst on the Fellowship. Stage 1 deadline is on the 19th of August 2019 and if you are successful, you’ll enter Stage 2 with the deadline on the 16th of September 2019.
You will in all likelihood already be working with us (the Research Commercialisation team within the University), and we are involved in the application process where university research and hence University owned IP is involved. A summary of what a commercially strong project typically involves can be found here. For other resources on commercialising your research, please check out our website.
For the full description of this RAEng Enterprise Fellow programme, click here.