Thursday 16th August 2018, 11:00am
The next RSE Enterprise Fellowship Programme is now open to promising business ideas.
The bi-annual, prestigious business development and training programme enables promising science and technology academics or researchers to develop into successful entrepreneurs.
Over the course of a year, Enterprise Fellows can focus solely on refining their business ideas, whilst receiving one year’s salary, up to £10,000 support funding, a year’s training in entrepreneurship and business development from leading experts and access to mentors from RSE Fellows and other successful entrepreneurs in the business community.
The value of the programme (funding and in-kind support) is estimated at £90,000 per Enterprise Fellow.
Since the RSE Enterprise Fellowship programme was established in 1997, Enterprise Fellows have secured over £130 million of private and public funding and supported more than 240 graduates and researchers to develop and launch 166 new businesses with companies formed across a variety of fields from 36 UK academic institutions.
The deadline for application is 31st October 2018 at 5pm.
Roslin Innovation Centre
The University of Edinburgh
Easter Bush Campus
Midlothian EH25 9RG
