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Celebrating UCL’s Academic Founders during Global Entrepreneurship Week

20 November 2024

Technology network

We are proud to have assisted some of the UK’s most successful academic entrepreneurs. During Global Entrepreneurship Week, we wanted to celebrate all the brave and visionary academics we have worked with over thirty years, and share thoughts and advice from a few of them in this short video:

UCLB supports a huge range of UCL academics to help them commercialise their research, bringing amazing innovations to market through creating spinout businesses and licensing IP for others to develop.

Our support starts with the very earliest stages by scoping out the uniqueness and market potential for an academic’s research – all the way through to patenting and protecting their idea, attracting

We also help build academics’ business and entrepreneur skillset – from building business strategies to making the perfect pitch to potential investors. The commercialisation journey often takes a number of years, and we are there every step of the way as a supportive partner, advisor and sounding board.

Further information:

If you have an idea that might have commercial potential, get in touch with the business manager for your UCL department :

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