The entrepreneurship programme for staff

The Staff Entrepreneurship Programme aims to support talented University of Bradford staff members to create successful commercial and social enterprises.

Our workshops offer staff members the opportunity to gain first-hand knowledge and experience of running an enterprise.
These programmes are fast paced, real-life experiences, with the goal of enabling staff to progress from first meeting to securing funding for a social or business enterprise in just four months.

The programme enables staff to form collaborative teams, develop ideas for new businesses and receive start-up support, while developing their personal entrepreneurial and internationalisation skills.

Programme overview

This programme is open to current University of Bradford academic and non-academic staff members. It takes the form of two workshops, both 4 – 5 days long, typically run three months apart, with up to 30 staff members in each cohort.

You will gain training and mentoring in the key elements of running a successful enterprise, and gain first-hand experience of running an enterprise, with progression from first meeting to securing funding for a social or business enterprise in just four months.

It's free to attend.

Workshop content and support

The first workshop focuses on:

• Introductions
• Generation and selection of enterprise ideas
  
• Formation of founder teams
  
• Business plan development and support

In between workshop one and two:

• Drop-in sessions with Entrepreneurship team as well as ongoing support to develop
  business plan
  

Second workshop:

• Entrepreneurship ‘boot camp’
• Founder teams finalise prototypes, concepts, and designs,
  
• Develop a compelling presentation and promotional literature,
  
• Finishing with a Dragons Den style session – panel of real investors and benefactors
  for real money to grow their new enterprise.

The Enterprise Fellowship Programme for research staff and academics

Open to University of Bradford researchers, the Enterprise Fellowship provides up to £10,000 seed funding to establish a commercial proposition, together with entrepreneurship training and expert mentoring. It is intended to complement University research and to accelerate progress throughout the commercialisation process.

Appointed Enterprise Fellows dedicate a proportion of their time to explore the application of their own research or scholarship in a commercial or entrepreneurial context, with clear deliverables over a period of 12 months.

See full details and apply through the BREE SharePoint (login required).