Part of the newly formed Warwick Innovation District, The West Midlands Health and Wellbeing Innovation Network identifies challenges in the NHS, finds innovators to solve those challenges and facilitates a product development process to test and implement solutions. We have recently been successful in gaining funding for several exciting new projects which means we are…
The Deep Tech Innovation Centre was established to create more investable companies, attract more talent and make the Midlands a vibrant centre of innovation. Our mission at the University of Warwick is to inspire, educate and incubate. The Deep Tech Incubator supports aspiring deep tech founders, who want to create a sustainable business built on…
Exciting news from the world of creativity and digital innovation! Creative Futures is delighted to announce the arrival of its sixth cohort at 1 Mill Street. This group of talented and passionate entrepreneurs is poised to make waves with their groundbreaking ventures. Creative Futures, with its comprehensive six-month incubator program, gives these ambitious entrepreneurs a…
The University of Warwick has announced a new partnership with Tech West Mids (Tech WM), a not-for-profit organisation that aims to help tech businesses and entrepreneurs in the region go global. Warwick, as the founding academic patron of Tech WM, formerly Birmingham Tech, hosted the launch of a new ‘West Midlands Tech Review Report’ on…
Want to help build and celebrate our thriving community of innovators? We’re looking for someone to join our busy team who can make connections that reach into and beyond our network of entrepreneurs and experts to help support our growing innovation ecosystem. To find out more, read on below, and apply before 24th May. Apply here…
The West Midlands Innovation Accelerator recently announced by the West Midlands Combined Authority is designed to increase the region’s innovation and R&D capability. The West Midlands will receive a share of a new £100m fund from Innovate UK, first announced in the Government’s 2022 Levelling up White Paper. The West Midlands Innovation Board has targeted the…
Warwick Enterprise helps students and alumni create their own path, offering support to start their entrepreneurial journey. We talked to Warwick students who are currently benefitting from business support for their start-ups. Explore your ideas Share your ideas in confidence and get support developing your action plan. Warwick Enterprise can help you unleash your talent and…
In conversation with alumnus Mr Rajiv Bajaj, Managing Director of Bajaj Auto. In an exclusive video, Vice Chancellor Professor Stuart Croft speaks to Warwick alumnus, Mr Rajiv Bajaj. Now the Managing Director of Bajaj Auto Ltd. Mr Bajaj is an innovator, entrepreneur, engineer, business leader, and one of our most successful, high-profile, and influential alumni.…
West Midlands Health & Wellbeing Innovation Network are working with UHUK, a consortia of urgent health care suppliers, to deliver a first of a kind innovation programme. This programme aims to solve the “workforce optimisation” challenge with a focus on: > Ways to share information to improve urgent health call handling time and improve pathways…
NanoSyrinx have raised £7m in funding to date. We talked to Dr Joe Healy, Co-Founder and CEO at NanoSyrinx Ltd. They are on a mission to fundamentally revolutionise how medicines are administered - on a nanoscopic scale. We focused on how the ICURe programme helped validate the business. ICURe (Innovation to Commercialisation of University Research)…
WID Podcast Series: Andy Wynn interview This month we talk to Andy Wynn. Andy is a University of Warwick alumnus (BSc Chemistry, PhD Chemistry) and CEO at TTIP Global - a global organisation that advises tech, sustainability and social enterprise start-ups and researchers on how best to commercialise their ideas. We asked Andy, what does…
Want to engage effectively with disabled and neurodiverse employees, jobseekers and customers? Book a one to one advice session at SIC’s Access and Inclusion Solutions Clinic Date: Monday 20th March 2023Location: Junction Building, Warwick Innovation District, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 8UW Apply here Why will this clinic help me and my business? With 33%…
A longstanding research collaboration between the University of Warwick and University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire has led to the development of exciting new technology which will speed up the diagnoses of cancer and improve treatment for cancer patients. Using artificial intelligence, the technology will analyse tissue samples from people with suspected cancer and accelerate diagnosis…
A free peer network to help businesses solve problems and accelerate innovation. We talked to the team behind our new digital platform, and chatted with a few entrepreneurs about how we can help your business grow. Watch the video interview below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30L5eZhQjGQ&t=2s Who are we? My Innovation Collective is a not for profit digital community funded by…
Apply now and secure your place on the ICURe Engage Programme ICURe is open to research teams in all UK universities and approved public sector research enterprises (PSREs). Gain access to follow-on support and training towards a further £35,000 of ICURe funding plus follow-on funding support. A 6-week part-time ICURe taster programme to find potential beneficiaries of research,…
