Another successful year for enterprise at The University of Manchester

04 Sep 2014

2013/14 was another incredibly successful year for Manchester Enterprise Centre, the University’s focal point for student enterprise and entrepreneurship learning

Read the annual update and find out more about its teaching and student engagement, events and activities, and work with Manchester Entrepreneurs, UMI³ and Oxbridge Biotech Roundtable.  

Here are just some of the highlights:

• The number of students studying enterprise electives at either undergraduate or postgraduate level increased 4% year-on-year to 1,791
   
• Venture Out, the University’s annual ideas competition, attracted a record 126 entries – a 12% increase on the previous year
   
• Venture Further, the University’s annual business start-up competition, received 68 entries across the four prize categories – a 45% increase on the number received the year before
   
• Five new enterprise academics have joined the team: Dr James Hickie and Dr Veronica Sanchez-Romaguera in November, Dr Matthew McCaffrey in June, Dr Rita Klapper in July and Dr Catherine Casson in August
   
• Enterprise Futures, an event designed to build postgraduate entrepreneurial skills and run in conjunction with the University of Salford and Manchester Metropolitan University, set a new attendance record in May with nearly 300 postgraduate and staff delegates
   
• Manchester bars Epernay and Taps have been sold to young entrepreneur and current Master of Enterprise (MEnt) student Chris Payne
   
• Two research students who attended the Innovation and Commercialisation of Research Course were finalists in the Eli and Britt Harari Graphene Enterprise Award 2014, which offers a £50,000 prize to the winner

• Manchester Enterprise Centre