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Regional Talent Engines

Pre-seed programme for early-stage founders in Northern England and Northern Ireland

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Enterprise Fellowships

Commercialise your research into a spinout or startup

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Shott Scale Up Accelerator

Leadership training and coaching for high-growth SME leaders

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Explore

Global market incubator exclusively for Hub Members

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About our programmes

We have delivered over 10 years of success, enabling our awardees to form a powerful, thriving, and supportive community. We run programmes at multiple stages, from ideation to scaleup, with support for entrepreneurial engineers at different career points.

We don’t take equity, fees or IP. Thanks to our charitable status, we can focus on supporting excellence in engineering by helping innovators to fulfil their potential, founding and leading enterprises. 

Places on our programmes are competitive, to accelerate truly creative innovation in engineering. They are designed to provide support to every stage of growth, from founder to leader, with:

  • training, designed around the needs of our entrepreneurs
  • mentoring sourced from the Academy’s unrivalled network of Fellows and industry experts
  • connections to our network of 100+ investors
  • coaching from experts in subjects such as business growth, leadership and expansion strategies
  • lifetime access to our Hub Member co-working spaces through our regional hub network, with hubs in London, Belfast, Glasgow, Swansea, Newcastle, Liverpool and Sheffield

The Hub community

Awardees who complete a programme gain long-lasting benefit and support from the Academy’s global network and unmatched convening ability. Once you’re part of the community, you’re a Hub Member for life. Meet our current Hub Members and find out more about the lifelong benefits of Hub Membership in our Community.

Diversity & Inclusion

The Royal Academy of Engineering is committed to diversity and inclusion and welcomes applications from all underrepresented groups across engineering. It is the Academy's policy to ensure that no applicant is disadvantaged or receives less favourable treatment because of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.

The Enterprise Hub can support you to achieve a balance between your personal and work demands. We are happy to discuss individual requirements and consider part-time and other flexible working arrangements. You can find the contact details of our programme managers on the programme pages above.

Meet the senior programme managers

Angus Baker

Angus Baker

Senior Programme Manager, Enterprise Fellowships, Enterprise Hub

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Sarah Gummer

Sarah Gummer

Senior Programme Manager, Regional Talent Engines, Enterprise Hub

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Cristina Lisii

Cristina Lisii

Senior Programme Manager, Shott Scale Up Accelerator. Having worked across education, international…

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Katie Saddleton

Katie Saddleton

Senior Ecosystem Manager, Enterprise Hub

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Lifetime benefits of Hub Membership

Community

Entrepreneurs from the Hub’s programmes join a powerful community backed for the long-term to grow and scale.

Hub Members

Entrepreneurs who go through the Hub's programmes join a powerful, thriving and supportive community of over 500 Hub Me…