Purpose-driven businesses – Dr Terri Holloway
July 4, 2022
This blog is written by Dr Terri Holloway, Manager of the Ingenuity Lab When you think of the Ingenuity Lab, you might picture a gorgeous Google-like space, where student and alumni entrepreneurs develop businesses —and yes that’s quite an accurate description of what we are. Our bike tyre-shaped building, specially designed to honour the rich …
Innovation doesn’t happen in isolation – YES collaborates with TALENT
June 9, 2022
This blog is written by Dr Hannah Noke, Associate Professor in Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Haydn Green Institute. “Rethinking the future” is the mantra for the 2022 Young Entrepreneurs Scheme (YES). For the past 27 years, teams of PhD candidates and post-docs have come together to learn how research ideas can be commercialised and …
Pitch to Win returns!
May 30, 2022
In June, the Ingenuity Lab will be running the third edition of our pitching competition, Pitch to Win, where members get the chance to present their business pitches to an expert panel for the chance to win a top prize of £1000! To enter, Ingenuity Lab members had to submit an elevator video pitch, and …
HGI presents: Ingenuity Fund Fest!
May 27, 2022
In June, the Ingenuity Lab and Ingenuity Programme are teaming up to deliver Ingenuity Fund Fest, a month-long series of events designed to support exciting new ventures and provide next-stage funding to existing start-ups. The programme of events is centred around the National Ingenuity Showcase at the university’s Power of Partnerships conference on the 17 …
Responding to real-world challenges: MSc students complete Entrepreneurship Project
May 24, 2022
Every year in the spring semester, our MSc Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Management students take part in a group project, working alongside a local business or social enterprise. It’s important for a budding entrepreneur to be able to respond quickly and appropriately to challenges that arise in a business, and the Entrepreneurship Project is a perfect …
Meet the Ingenuity Lab member breaking down barriers in Medicine
March 11, 2022
In February, Ingenuity Lab member Miranda Ntorinkansah was invited to speak on the student panel for the Midlands Racial Equality in Medicine 2022 Conference. Hosted by the University of Warwick, the MREM conference was designed to bring together medical schools in the Midlands to tackle racial inequalities and close the attainment gap in medicine. Miranda, …
Promoting Young STEMM Women’s Entrepreneurial Activities – Sahattaya Achtzehn
March 8, 2022
Here at the Haydn Green Institute, we’re committed to progressing equality, diversity and inclusion in the world of entrepreneurship. Central to this is a focus on women entrepreneurs, both in our academic research and in our practical support via the Ingenuity Lab, Ingenuity Programme and Young Entrepreneurs Scheme. At the intersection of HGI’s research and …
Young Entrepreneurs Scheme: Life is all about people – connections really do matter!
March 3, 2022
This blog is written by Young Entrepreneurs Scheme Manager, Tracey Hassall-Jones. The people in your network can really make a difference in helping you achieve your goals and ambitions and it’s never too early to start engaging and making those all-important connections. An African proverb says: “If you want to go fast, go alone. If …
Nottingham to host inaugural ISBE Spring Symposium
February 21, 2022
We’re delighted to be hosting the inaugural Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ISBE) ECR/ECA Spring Symposium at Jubilee Campus on 28 April 2022. Our first in-person conference in over two years, the symposium will aim to assist early career researchers in their career development through developing both their current research for publication and their …
International Mother Language Day: Ingenuity Lab Ambassador, Yudan Deng
Today is International Mother Language Day! Today we’re shining a light on Ingenuity Lab Ambassador, Yudan Deng, who runs Follow the Orient, a Chinese language teaching resource which aims to introduce children to new languages and culture via storytelling. On International Mother Language Day, UNESCO recognizes that languages and multilingualism can advance inclusion, and the …
