Turn your engineering innovation into a successful company.
We are the UK's 3rd most active accelerator. We provide researchers and recent graduates with the skills confidence and expertise to become better entrepreneurs. With tailored training, coaching, and mentorship from top engineers you will learn everything required in market strategy, communication, market validation, sales, and fundraising to be successful.
You'll learn alongside peers and experts while expanding your network in our global ecosystem of Fellows, investors, and industry leaders. We also provide 12 months of funding so you can focus entirely on your business.
Best of all? As a charity, we offer this comprehensive support completely free: no fees, no equity, and no claim on your IP.
Our impact
entrepreneurs supported
follow on funding raised since joining the program
valuation increase by our awardees after completing program
awardees have been acquired
Our offering
We offer a grant of up to £75,000 plus coaching, training and mentoring. Graduates of the programme become Enterprise Hub members and gain lifetime support and access to our network.
15 days of training over six months. Learn at a pace that gives you time to implement the new knowledge.
A business coach will offer bespoke support for six months to complement the training.
From one of our leading technology entrepreneurs, they will guide you over 12 months.
Use our network to make exceptional connections to entrepreneurs, corporates, experts and investors.
Key growth areas
Training sessions are delivered as approximately 105 hours of interactive workshops in the first six months of the programme. The content is pitched by the trainers to challenge startup and spinout founders at various levels of business acumen and cover topics in:
- leadership and operations
- business modelling, value proposition and strategy
- marketing, sales and customers
- finance and funding sources
Who is the programme for?
We are looking for:
- university researchers wishing to spin out from UK universities and research institutes
- recent graduates who want to found a startup
Who have:
- a protectable engineering or technology innovation
- the ambition to lead the business as CEO or COO
- a technology that has been validated in a lab or a relevant environment
Please read our full eligibility criteria and see the Applicant Guidance Notes for more details. If you have any questions, you can email the programme managers directly or join an applicant workshop.
Join an Introductory Webinar
Wondering if Enterprise Fellowships is for you and if this is the right time to apply, what has changes since you applied last and what the selection process entails? Attend one of our introductory webinars run by our programme managers to learn more and have your questions answered.
Join a Tech Transfer Officer Workshop online
This workshop is only for Tech Transfer Officers. Tech Transfer Officers and Commercialisation Managers are contributors to spinout applications.
This workshop is convened to brief them on how to best support the process and assist all involved.
If you work in research commercialisation at a UK or Irish university or research institute, please register to attend a session:
| TTO Workshop | Friday, 12 September 14:00 | Register here |
| TTO Workshop | Tuesday, 16 September 15:00 | Register here |
The Enterprise Fellowships programme is made possible by the generous support of our sponsors:
The Academy have made an assessment of the Enterprise Fellowship scheme against the principles of the Subsidy Control Act 2022 and have made this assessment available here. The Scheme has also been published on the transparency database (SC10913).