YES: Fostering Diversity, Igniting Innovation
March 25, 2024
YES (Your Entrepreneurs Scheme) is an innovative global competition developed to raise awareness among Master’s and PhD students, postdoctoral researchers, research fellows, and technicians about how ideas can be commercialised. The scheme brings individuals together to create hypothetical science and engineering solutions to address real environmental and social challenges. Since its formation in 1995, we …
An Entrepreneurial Extravaganza at #YES18
December 20, 2018
YES welcomed eight finalists to the Royal Society on Tuesday 11 December to present their business ideas to #ProtectOurPlanet in a bid to compete for the £16.5k prize fund. All three competitions, Biotechnology YES, Engineering YES and Environment YES, are specifically designed to allow ECRs to develop commercialisation skills, raise career awareness and appreciate how …
Tackling Poverty in Nottingham through Food Waste
October 30, 2018
Ingenuity19 is looking for the next generation of entrepreneurs and innovators to create scalable social and commercial enterprises that can transform Nottingham, the UK and beyond. We are looking for students, staff, graduates and early career researchers from across the University of Nottingham to come together and discover problems worth solving, and offer you the …
Responding to Customer Demand with Tech
October 22, 2018
Ingenuity19 is looking for the next generation of entrepreneurs and innovators to create scalable social and commercial enterprises that can transform Nottingham, the UK and beyond. We are looking for students, staff, graduates and early career researchers from across the University of Nottingham to come together and discover problems worth solving, and offer you the …
The Social Mission Addressing Teen Behaviour
October 18, 2018
Ingenuity19 is looking for the next generation of entrepreneurs and innovators to create scalable social and commercial enterprises that can transform Nottingham, the UK and beyond. We are looking for students, staff, graduates and early career researchers from across the University of Nottingham to come together and discover problems worth solving, and offer you the …
Improving Enrollment Processes Through Tech
Ingenuity19 is looking for the next generation of entrepreneurs and innovators to create scalable social and commercial enterprises that can transform Nottingham, the UK and beyond. We are looking for students, staff, graduates and early career researchers from across the University of Nottingham to come together and discover problems worth solving, and offer you the …
Ingenuity19 Launch
October 15, 2018
Ingenuity19 is back for 2019! Enterprising ideas to transform our future “Dependent children remains by far the most prevalent reason for ‘priority need’ both in Nottingham and nationally… The average number of people accessing Housing Aid was 75 per day. This has risen by 32% since 2009. Of those presenting, 31% were first time visitors” Source: …
Building work-ready skills whilst studying
August 7, 2018
“Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment.” (unattributed) It is widely recognised that whatever the level of educational qualification achieved, studying alone does not equip students to have ‘work- ready skills’. There are many practical, less tangible accomplishments which are just as important in preparing for employment, whether that’s working for …
Santander EA18 Awards – pitching for the win
July 15, 2018
Entering the Santander EA18 Awards has been a great experience already. Doing the pitch really forced us to focus on producing a concise and compelling business proposition. All the feedback has been really helpful and we’re looking forward to the finals now!” – Seb Kummle, Director, Citylife UK Santander EA18 Awards Two start-up businesses based in …
Universitas 21 Challenge 2018
June 26, 2018
“It was exciting to see participants of Universitas 21 delivering creative solutions to real world problems across a range of different fields.” – George Smith, year 2 Geography student, University of Nottingham (UK) The pros and cons of participating in the Universitas 21 Challenge*. *Disclaimer*: we didn’t win by George Smith. Universitas 21 is a …
