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 …
Kicking off the MSc Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Management with a buzz
October 11, 2023
Instead of a “thank goodness, it’s Friday” vibe at the end of a busy first week of term, the new cohort of MSc Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Management students set our weekly seminar class abuzz by taking part in their first group work activity: interviewing an experienced business entrepreneur. Module convenor, Dr Isobel O’Neil explains: “At …
Ingenuity Programme Celebrates 2023 Impact Entrepreneurs
September 12, 2023
Ingenuity is a national innovation programme supporting students, graduates and community members, particularly those from underserved and underrepresented groups to engage, develop ideas for change and turn ideas for change into exciting new ventures in 3 areas: improving health, building stronger communities and tackling climate change. It adopts an agile and flexible approach to ensure …
Haydn Green Institute wins Lord Dearing Award
July 26, 2023
We’re delighted to announce that the Haydn Green Institute received the Team award at the University of Nottingham’s Lord Dearing Awards this year, celebrating excellence in Learning and Teaching. The Lord Dearing Award Scheme has, since 1999, recognised the outstanding achievements of University of Nottingham staff in enhancing the student learning experience. “It’s fantastic for …
Building new connections with YES!
June 27, 2023
This blog is written by Charlotte Fawcett, a PhD researcher in the Wellcome Trust Doctoral Training Programme in Genomic Epidemiology and Public Health Genomics at the University of Leicester. I received an email about YES22 last September, and went to one of the ‘Find out more’ sessions, where I heard about how ideas can be …
Get your business idea off the ground with The Link!
June 2, 2023
At the Ingenuity Lab, the home of entrepreneurship at the University of Nottingham, we can provide a home for your ideas and a base for your business. Connecting our participants’ ambition with our expertise, we ran our free early-stage business incubator The Link for the first time last year – and next week, we’re doing …
Visit the Ingenuity Lab Open Day on 10 May!
April 20, 2023
Thinking of starting a business? Find out how we support business start-ups at the second annual Ingenuity Lab Open Day! Based on Jubilee Campus, The Ingenuity Lab is where students, staff, and alumni of the University of Nottingham can explore their business ideas and start their own enterprises. After the success of last year’s Open Day, …
Fostering entrepreneurial talent for women in STEM – Sahattaya Achtzehn
March 29, 2023
This is a guest blog from Sahattaya Achtzehn, who recently completed her PhD at the Haydn Green Institute. The underrepresentation of women starting a business within Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) sectors has long attracted UK Government attention. Nevertheless, the gender gap within STEM entrepreneurship still persists and this gap is relatively larger within …
Entrepreneurship for Social Change
March 21, 2023
A new addition to our teaching portfolio was launched in the autumn semester 2022-23: Entrepreneurship for Social Change. The module sought to equip students with the knowledge and skills to be able to deliver social change through entrepreneurial endeavours. The module delivery centred around a newly curated, innovative portfolio that guided the students through different …
