EnterpriseTECH and EnterpriseTECH STAR

• GRADUATES AND RESEARCHERS BEYOND CAMBRIDGE

  The EnterpriseTECH experience is open to undergraduates, graduates, PhD students, postdocs and industry researchers irrespective of location who want to build their understanding of entrepreneurship through a real-world team experience. Application deadline: 30 January 2023 (Cohort 12).

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• FULLY FUNDED PLACES FOR THE BABRAHAM INSTITUTE

  We are delighted to announce that we have teamed up with The Babraham Institute who will be sponsoring a number of places for research staff, postdocs and PhD students to join us as students on EnterpriseTECH this academic year. Application deadline: 30 January 2023 (Cohort 12).

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• ENTERPRISE TECH SPEAKER BLOG: TOM BRITTON

  Co-founder of VC company Syndicateroom and guest speaker Tom Britton shares thoughts on product-market fit, the holy grail for start-ups that few founders fully understand and fewer manage to achieve.

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• FULLY-FUNDED SCHOLARSHIPS FOR CAMBRIDGE POSTDOCS

  Science, Engineering and Humanities postdocs apply now to secure a fully-funded research council scholarship to cover the programme fees. Application deadline: 30 January 2023 (Cohort 12).

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• ENTERPRISE TECH STUDENT DIARIES: EMILY CLEMENTS

  Emily attended EnterpriseTECH as a PhD student in neuroimaging from King’s College London. Her work focuses on the ‘Neuroscience of Entrepreneurship’. Debate still exists over whether entrepreneurs are born or made – read about her research and her experience in our latest EnterpriseTECH diary.

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• ENTERPRISE TECH INVENTOR DIARIES: DR DAVID HAMPTON

  AI expert Spilios Theodoratos, Clinical Embryologist Ioannis Sfontouris and previous Director of the Cambridge Science Park Jeanette Walker share their experience on EnterpriseTECH as co-inventors of IVF vision, an AI platform aimed at improving IVF success rates by helping embryologists select the most viable blastocyst. They discuss how the EnterpriseTECH student team working on their project helped them take IVF vision to new heights.

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• 10 WEEKS – 180 HOURS ENTERPRISETECH STAR

  EnterpriseTECH STAR helps you develop your inner entrepreneur while building your business idea to take it on to the next stage. The programme is open to all graduates of EnterpriseTECH, we limit our cohort to 20 people.

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• INVENTORS: SUBMIT A PROJECT PROPOSAL

  Are you an inventor with early-stage results or a prototype product? Do you want to find out if it has real commercial potential? Our teams of EnterpriseTECH students could be finding that out. Project proposal deadline: 16 January (Cohort 12).

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EnterpriseTECH and EnterpriseTECH STAR are unique educational experiences geared towards learning about entrepreneurship. EnterpriseTECH is a team-based activity focused on experiential learning, whilst EnterpriseTECH STAR is for alums to start crafting their business ideas whilst growing personally as entrepreneurs. 

We welcome applications to become a student on EnterpriseTECH from anyone anywhere, although our cohorts are mainly science and engineering researchers. We also seek applications from inventors with real-world commercial feasibility project proposals. 

Upcoming deadlines:

• EnterpriseTECH student applications: 30 January 2023
• EnterpriseTECH STAR: 13 March 2023

For Cohort 12, we have ten fully-funded places for postdoctoral researchers at Cambridge and places for researchers at Babraham. See Fees and Funding.

In four years, over 640 students (incl. 62% PhD students, 12% postdocs) have earned Certificates of Completion from EnterpriseTECH, and 130 inventors have benefited from the work conducted by our student teams on EnterpriseTECH. We have also progressed 54 EnterpriseTECH STAR entrepreneurs, many of whom have gone on to raise seed funding for their ventures.

Our sponsors

Our valued business and corporate sponsors help us create more opportunities for aspiring researcher-entrepreneurs to attend.

We also work with funding partners across the University of Cambridge to provide UK research council funded places.