Job opportunity: Innovation Community Development Manager

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…

Building the regional health technology innovation ecosystem

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…

Get the help you need to develop your entrepreneurial skills or launch your business idea

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…

Our global alumni community has an incredible impact on the world

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.…

Urgent Health UK Innovation Programme scouting for solutions

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…

WID Case Study: NanoSyrinx – Delivering the future of intracellular medicine

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)…

What key skills do you need to be a successful entrepreneur?

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…

Access and Inclusion Solutions Clinic

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%…

Warwick spinout to revolutionise AI for cellular pathology

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…

My Innovation Collective – Join our community

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…

ICURe Engage Programme

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,…

Uniting leaders in esports, games & education

Esports Insider & the University of Warwick announce the UK’s first conference dedicated to esports & video games in education Hear from the UK’s leading universities on why they are integrating esports and gaming degrees, heads of education from the UK’s official esports trade body - the British Esports Association and video game publishers -…

WID Podcast Series | Deep Tech Innovation Centre Interview

Warwick Innovation District Podcast Series | Business Support for Deep Tech Founders The University of Warwick Deep Tech Incubator is open for applications from entrepreneurs – or aspiring entrepreneurs – who want to create a sustainable business offering innovative solutions to global problems. We talked to Andy Pardoe and Joanna Bates to find out how…

WID Podcast: Conor Burke Interview

Warwick Innovation District Podcast Series Driving change to innovate the healthcare sector The West Midlands Health and Wellbeing Innovation Network, here at the University of Warwick, announce an exciting new partnership with UHUK to help drive innovation within the healthcare sector. We talked to Conor Burke, CEO of UHUK to find out more about this…

Management & Professional job opportunity

Innovation Coordinator - Fixed-term contract until 1 February 2024 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…