Podcasts about setsquared

Dr Zara Nanu MBE grew up in Moldova and she thought she'd work in education - however her path took her more towards social justice. But then she discovered something she knew she had to change.   She learned that while predictions show we'll be driving driverless cars in just a few decades, it will take more than 217 years to close the Gender Pay Gap.   Zara knew she had to do something about this – I'll let her tell you what, but it meant she entered the world of tech - which she said she knew nothing about. And as with all Next Chapters there were many ups and many downs. She pitched to investors more than 100 times and didn't raise a single penny and on top of this she was mistaken for a waitress at some of these events. But Zara carried on and today her work is helping women all over the world. She's now one of the leading voices in the world about gender equality, she's been awarded an MBE and she sits on the Women's Leadership board at Harvard University.     If there was ever anyone, I'd feel intimated by doing my first live event it would be Zara. But this couldn't be further from the truth. She's humble, open and so honest. We talk about her own imposter syndrome (especially when she's at the Harvard Leadership Board next to Emmy winners), the importance of keeping going and how she's dealt time and time again with knockbacks. Zara believes if we really open ourselves to our possibilities and the power we all have inside of us - anything is possible and we really all can create the change we need.   For more about Dr Zara Nanu MBE: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zara-nanu/?originalSubdomain=uk   To learn more about our wonderful hosts Setsquared and The Engine Shed you can find them here:  https://www.setsquared.co.uk/   https://engine-shed.co.uk/

How could a chance discovery in cuttlefish biology help protect our sight? Join Professor Michele Barbour in conversation with Dr Shelby Temple, the CEO and Co-Founder of Azul Optics, a medical device company focused on using innovative screening technologies to improve eye health. Hear about Shelby's transition from academia to entrepreneurship and the importance of building the right team. ⭐Highlights§  Delve into the research on a unique eye pigment and the accidental discovery that led to the creation of Azul Optics' ground-breaking technology.§  Hear about Shelby's move from academic to entrepreneur and the support he received from Bristol SETsquared and the Innovate UK ICURe programme.§  Learn about the significance of building the right team and the dynamic interplay between business and scientific partners crucial for Azul Optics' success.§  Shelby discusses the company's work to realise their full market potential, their goal of being acquired and their mission to educate and leave a lasting impact on eye health.  

SETsquared has achieved something few have: it's built an ecosystem that spans six institutions across England and Wales and a programme that provides end-to-end support to founders both within and without the universities. Banding together means the six universities don't just rival their peers in London, Oxford or Cambridge (portfolio companies have raised some £4bn to date), but in some areas are setting the pace: Bristol, for example, is responsible for a third of all quantum computing companies in the UK.

Today is Simon Bond's first day as director of Bristol Innovations, an initiative launched by University of Bristol earlier this year to accelerate entrepreneurship among its researchers, students and staff. Bond joins from SETsquared, the global number one incubator backed by the universities of Bath, Bristol, Cardiff, Exeter, Southampton and Surrey, which he had led […]

Andrew Gaule discusses with Dr. Dan Stewart, Founder and CEO of ViridiCO2 (https://viridico2.co.uk), the founding of a university spin out which is addressing the capture and use of CO2 to mitigate climate change. In the discussion we cover a range of topics and support he gained on his journey so far. - Being inspired by Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth movie (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Inconvenient_Truth) and books- University spin out support from Future Worlds (https://futureworlds.com)- SETsquared (https://www.setsquared.co.uk) where Dan has gained support and Andrew is a mentor for SETsquared. SETsquared is a unique enterprise partnership and a dynamic collaboration between the six leading research-led UK universities of Bath, Bristol, Cardiff, Exeter, Southampton and Surrey.- ICURe programme (https://www.setsquared.co.uk/programme/icure-programme-2/) which Dan has been through and Andrew has done judging and led case study workshops.  - Kymira (https://kymira.co.uk) is led by Tim Brownstone and was invested in by Henley Business Angels- ViridiCO2 technology and means of capturing CO2 to make alternatives to fossil fuel products like plastics. - The journey of gaining grants and investment from angel investors- Benefits and possible pit falls of gaining Corporate Venture Capital investment.You can listen to this interview as a podcast on Gaule's Question Time on Apple, Spotify, Google and many other podcast channels. https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/gaulesqtSubscribe for future interviews. See this and other video content at Aimava Purpose to Performance Channel - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCV9o-htFNIk9Yt7jp2XcdWw

As part of Global Entrepreneurship Week 2021, Rae is joined by Emily Davies, SETsquared Exeter Student Startup Manager and Max Harrington, Masters student and founder of Just Surf. Emily discusses the support available to students who are thinking about starting their own businesses, including information on the funding that is available for students to pitch for. Max shares how Student Startups has helped him start up his business, Just Surf, and shares his advice on how to make the most of the support available.   Student Startup drop ins run on Tuesday 2-3pm, and details on how to attend can be found here. More information on Student Startups, including the Pre-Incubator and Incubator Programmes can be found here. You can find the SCRATCH Startup magazine here. You can find out more about Max' business by visiting Just Surf. If you're thinking about working for yourself, building a portfolio or entrepreneurial career, contact the Careers Zone to book an Entrepreneurs Guidance appointment.

If you are loving the MindStyling Podcast don't forget to rate, review, subscribe and share.  Today's guest is Joyann Boyce an Inclusive Marketing Consultant and Founder of The Social Detail. The company works with SMEs within the technology sector to maximise their impact through social media. The Social Detail has worked with a range of organisations including the Coke GB, Adobe XD, SETsquared and Future Space. In her three years of running the agency, Joyann has placed data & inclusion at the heart of her approach to marketing, from idea to creation to reviewing and consumption.  Joyann is a fierce advocate for diversity and inclusion within marketing and tech. Seeing a gap in the stock photo market, she partnered with the SHIFT project to create a portfolio of diverse stock photography. The project was featured on the BBC.She is currently a Data Fellow with the South West Creative Technology Network, researching how bias within data can be positively used to benefit marginalised groups. The fellowship is allowing her to connect her two passions for data and diversity by exploring the depths of data and machine learning. Her research shows that when dealing with AI, the primary focus has been on trying to eliminate any bias in it. Instead, she believes we can learn more about creating unbiased machines by flipping the bias in favour of marginalized groups and then comparing the outcomes.We discussed: ⁠

In the latest episode of SETsquared Downloaded, we take a look at the challenges businesses and entrepreneurs face when trying to scale-up. A scale-up is defined as a company that has already validated its product within the marketplace, and has proven that the unit economics are sustainable. We speak to two business owners who have successfully grown their businesses to get their top tips. We also chat to SETsquared Surrey’s Head of Incubation to find how organisations like SETsquared can help businesses scale-up succesfully. In this episode of SETsquared Downloaded, we interview: Steve Cliff, CEO of Ultrahaptics about the challenges scale-ups face and how he achieved it. Tom Carter, CTO and founder of Ultrahaptics to get his advice about the growing pains business might face. Caroline Fleming, Head of Incubation at SETsquared Surrey about the needs of a scale-up and what support is available to businesses. Music: "Live the World" by Lee Rosevere, used under CC BY / Cut down from original.

In the latest episode of SETsquared Downloaded, we look at the challenges that start-ups and entrepreneurs face when trying to secure investment. We speak to an investor and a start-up that has successfully secured investment to get their top tips. We answer: What makes a good business plan/proposition? What makes a company investable in the eyes of an investor? What funding advice, support services and opportunities are available to entrepreneurs? How is SETsquared helping to connect start-ups with investors? We speak to: Jerry Horwood, Angel Investor and Chair of SETsquared Surrey’s S100 Club, to get his advice for businesses that are looking to raise investment. Andrei Danescu, Co-founder and CEO of BotsAndUS, about how his company was successful in securing investment. Gary Smith, Hub Manager for the SETsquared Digital Hubs, about what support is available to start-ups and entrepreneurs from SETsquared. Music: "Live the World" by Lee Rosevere, used under CC BY / Cut down from original.

In the latest edition of SETsquared Downloaded, Karen Brooks, programme director at SETsquared, interviewed iGeolise’s co-founder and director, Peter Lilley, at the UK Space Conference. iGeolise makes locations searchable by travel time and enables thousands of locations on any website or database to be searched by the users’ choice of travel time and transport mode. Karen spoke to Peter about the company’s use of state-of-the-art space technology, its journey from idea to business and how it is continuing to expand.

Innovate UK works with people, companies and partner organisations to find and drive the science and technology innovations that will grow the UK economy. Since 2007 it has committed over £1.8 billion to innovation, matched by a similar amount in partner and business funding. It has helped more than 7,600 organisations with projects estimated to add more than £11.5 billion to the UK economy and create 55,000 extra new jobs. In this edition, Luke spoke to Innovate UK’s chief development officer, Kevin Baughan about how it supports UK start-ups, the programmes it offers and the current trends in British innovation scene. Carswell Gould is a big supporter of UK innovation and works with clients such as global number one university business incubator, SETsquared and revolutionary shower manufacturers, Kelda Technology. Music: "Halter Top" by Podington Bear, used under CC BY / Cut down from original

In the latest episode of SETsquared Downloaded, Amy Grinstead spoke to Mike Austin of Fresh Relevance, one of SETsquared’s Top 50 entrepreneurs. Fresh Relevance has developed a marketing hub for online retailers that gives users a personalised customer experience. It allows marketers to control the real-time experience with a cost-effective platform, using a range of contextual marketing tools. Amy spoke to Mike about the company’s successful journey from start-up to scale-up, its work with SETsquared and how it plans on tackling the post-Brexit landscape.

The inaugural Med Tech Investment Showcase from the Wessex Academic Health Science Network (AHSN) and supported by SETsquared, explored the merging of the pioneering medical and tech industries that has created a wealth of opportunities. 16 entrepreneurs were given the platform to realise their ambitions by exhibiting and pitching for significant investment to develop their innovative ideas and push them out to a wider market. Amy and Luke attended the event and spoke to two of the exhibiting entrepreneurs, Jane from the creators of a ground-breaking compact and wearable cough monitor, Quvium and Joel from award-winning bionic hand makers, Open Bionics. The pair also had a roundtable discussion with three of the event organisers, Frank Ratcliff and Kevin Brooks from the Wessex AHSN and Karen Brooks of SETsquared. Music: "Live the World" by Lee Rosevere, used under CC BY / Cut down from original

The fashion industry contributes £26bn to the UK economy, but developments in fashion technology have been few and far between. In the first episode of SETsquared Downloaded fashion industry expert Matthew Drinkwater explains why this is set to change and how a new partnership with SETsquared is bringing designers and technologists together. Matthew is Head of the Fashion Innovation Agency at the London College of Fashion. The agency partners the most exciting designer talent in London with the very latest fashion-tech to create ground-breaking brand collaborations and consultancies across the fashion, retail, lifestyle, cultural and digital industries. Music: "Live the World" by Lee Rosevere, used under CC BY / Cut down from original

Prepare Your Business to Succeed – .   Are you starting a new business? How do you get it right? Ian James and Rupert Jenner talk to Steve Hyland about The Balanced Start-Up. This is a process that allows you to Prepare Your Business to Succeed. Get free advice for your business here http://businessconnectionslive.com So how do you Prepare Your Business to Succeed The Balanced Start-Up. What do ambitious early-stage businesses need to address in order to succeed? When you Prepare Your Business to Succeed you need a plan. The ‘Balanced Start-up model’ defines the four main business areas that entrepreneurs must address in order to Prepare Your Business to Succeed. Find out how to get your business ready to apply for funding. Ian will explain how to avoid common mistakes by getting independent external support. Our Expert Guests Our guests on this edition of Business Connections Live are Ian James, Entrepreneur in Residence at business incubator, SETsquared Surrey and Rupert Jenner, Founder, Playwaze and a member of SETsquared Surrey Rupert Jenner will highlight lessons learned and how he overcame challenges in order to develop his business. Ian’s role is to guide ambitious start-ups through the challenges of early stage business development and help them to become ‘investor-ready’ in order to accelerate growth. SETsquared Surrey, founded in 2002, has helped accelerate over 165 early stage, high growth technology businesses, with 90% surviving more than three years in business. The SETsquared Partnership is the enterprise collaboration between five leading research-intensive universities: Bath, Bristol, Exeter, Southampton and Surrey. Over the past 14 years, SETsquared has helped over 1,000 high-tech start-ups to raise more than £1 billion of investment. This edition of Business Connections Live will be a valuable insight into why independent external support is critical for ambitious early-stage businesses in order to maximise opportunities and avoid common mistakes. Prepare Your Business to Succeed with The Balanced Start Up The 4 areas (Value creation, Growth, Value Delivery and Back-office management) which businesses need to address, even if only at a basic level, in order to have a solid, holistic foundation for growth and be ready to apply for funding. The top reason that start-ups fail (making a product that nobody wants) and how to avoid it (develop a bare minimum product and test it in the market to discover customers’ reaction) How an incubator environment helps create a sustainable business by providing access to a range of experts that can advise on all aspects of business, from legal and financial to marketing and innovation. How mentoring can be invaluable in helping entrepreneurs to progress. (We match each company with a mentor with the relevant experience and skills, who provides advice, guidance and support for the entrepreneur on his/her journey) Common challenges faced by entrepreneurs and how they can be overcome. Examples: maintaining cash flow; balancing short-term benefits with long-term goals; delegating tasks to work on the business, not in it; The hardest decision made by the entrepreneur When does a business know if it’s ready for funding – and what steps should they take to become ‘investor ready’ (maximise value, establish credibility, minimise risk) Learn the business fundamentals on how your business can achieve: A realistic appreciation of the challenges and rewards of being an entrepreneur Where to go for expert independent advice and what an incubator environment can offer A strong, holistic foundation to their business and a clarity of the company’s purpose A lean approach to product development leading to rapid market adoption and growth A preparedness for funding that incorporates the optimum ingredients for success and a strong pitch For more great information visit our Guests website or follow them on Social Media. Website:  http://www.setsquared.co.uk/surrey Twitter:  https://twitter.com/SETsquaredSRY Contact Business Connections Live The UK’s Leading Online Business Channel: Visit our Website Follow us on Twitter for the latest news Live Shows on Youtube Mondays Mid-day GMT Follow us on our Google+ page Follow us on our Facebook page You can Email the studio here We are always looking for Industry experts…

Governments invest in higher education hoping to see short-term economic benefits in the form of job creation, knowledge mobilization, and increasingly, the launch of entrepreneurial new start-up businesses. In this week’s episode, Ken Steele provides a quick overview of college and university research commercialization, from the first research parks to the latest business incubators and accelerators. In many ways, academic culture is antithetical to entrepreneurship. Scholars and scientists are often perfectionists, conducting exhaustive research, consulting their peers for input and consensus, and avoiding career-limiting risks. Academic culture is centred around credibility, caution, and certainty. Successful entrepreneurs, on the other hand, are often shameless self-promoters, confident or even arrogant, first to market regardless of quality control, and frequently keeping trade secrets from their competitors. Many question whether modern schools are the right environment in which to nurture entrepreneurs or innovators. Typically, higher ed researchers transfer intellectual property to the private sector for commercialization. Last year, UBC licensed a potential treatment for drug-resistant prostate cancer to Roche Pharmaceuticals for more than $120 million. Corporations have been partnering with research universities since the 1950s, in research parks like the Stanford Research Park, established in 1951. By the 1970s, it was home to some leading high-tech research facilities, like Xerox PARC, and it is often credited with being the spark that created Silicon Valley. Google itself was a spinoff of the research of 2 Stanford grad students, and Stanford still holds some lucrative Google patents today. The largest university research park today is the Research Triangle Park in North Carolina, collocated to serve Duke University, UNC, and NC State. 50,000 employees and 10,000 contractors work at RTP for major corporations including IBM, Cisco, and GlaxoSmithKline. But today, R&D is no longer the exclusive domain of major multinationals. A student or two with a good idea can take their business global in mere months, as Mark Zuckerberg did in 2004 when he launched Facebook from a Harvard dorm room. That’s probably what inspired the University of Waterloo to establish a “dormcubator,” the Velocity Residence, and 5 other branches of the incubator program including the Velocity Garage, the Foundry, Velocity Science, and more. uWaterloo Velocity video: https://youtu.be/vEbKt6Ho9z0 As North American employment is increasingly shifting towards startups and freelancing, business incubators have been multiplying. In the US alone, there are more than a thousand. California’s Y Combinator has funded more than 1,000 companies now worth $65 billion, and admission to their program is more competitive than Harvard or Yale. UBI Global, headquartered in Sweden, looked at more than 1,200 university accelerators and incubators to arrive at its ranking of the top incubators of 2015. First place went to England’s SetSquared Partnership, a collaboration between the universities of Bath, Bristol, Exeter, Southampton and Surrey. With 6 sites at the 5 research-intensive universities, SetSquared has helped more than a thousand companies raise over £1 billion, and create 9,000 jobs. The #2 incubator in the world is the Innovation Incubation Center at Chaoyang University of Technology in Taiwan. The top university incubator in North America, #3 in the world, is the DMZ at Ryerson University. The DMZ has launched more than 180 companies, creating more than 1,000 jobs, and attracting $70 million in seed funding. Politicians and the business community praise the DMZ for creating better quality jobs, and harnessing the innovative capacity of the nation. Ryerson has launched other incubation zones, including the Fashion Zone, Design Fabrication Zone, ZoneStartups India, the Transmedia Zone, the Legal Innovation Zone, and the Social Ventures Zone. Ryerson DMZ video: https://youtu.be/IGncBRPg1TI As we mentioned previously, colleges and universities are emphasizing experiential learning opportunities, and incubators are just one high-profile approach. Some academics question whether higher education should really be in the business of incubating businesses, but as more and more students graduate into a freelance and innovation economy, business incubators make sense as an extension of campus career services and research commercialization. If we want to prepare our students for successful futures and meaningful citizenship, they are going to require an entrepreneurial mindset.

Governments invest in higher education hoping to see short-term economic benefits in the form of job creation, knowledge mobilization, and increasingly, the launch of entrepreneurial new start-up businesses. In this week’s episode, Ken Steele provides a quick overview of college and university research commercialization, from the first research parks to the latest business incubators and accelerators. In many ways, academic culture is antithetical to entrepreneurship. Scholars and scientists are often perfectionists, conducting exhaustive research, consulting their peers for input and consensus, and avoiding career-limiting risks. Academic culture is centred around credibility, caution, and certainty. Successful entrepreneurs, on the other hand, are often shameless self-promoters, confident or even arrogant, first to market regardless of quality control, and frequently keeping trade secrets from their competitors. Many question whether modern schools are the right environment in which to nurture entrepreneurs or innovators. Typically, higher ed researchers transfer intellectual property to the private sector for commercialization. Last year, UBC licensed a potential treatment for drug-resistant prostate cancer to Roche Pharmaceuticals for more than $120 million. Corporations have been partnering with research universities since the 1950s, in research parks like the Stanford Research Park, established in 1951. By the 1970s, it was home to some leading high-tech research facilities, like Xerox PARC, and it is often credited with being the spark that created Silicon Valley. Google itself was a spinoff of the research of 2 Stanford grad students, and Stanford still holds some lucrative Google patents today. The largest university research park today is the Research Triangle Park in North Carolina, collocated to serve Duke University, UNC, and NC State. 50,000 employees and 10,000 contractors work at RTP for major corporations including IBM, Cisco, and GlaxoSmithKline. But today, R&D is no longer the exclusive domain of major multinationals. A student or two with a good idea can take their business global in mere months, as Mark Zuckerberg did in 2004 when he launched Facebook from a Harvard dorm room. That’s probably what inspired the University of Waterloo to establish a “dormcubator,” the Velocity Residence, and 5 other branches of the incubator program including the Velocity Garage, the Foundry, Velocity Science, and more. uWaterloo Velocity video: https://youtu.be/vEbKt6Ho9z0 As North American employment is increasingly shifting towards startups and freelancing, business incubators have been multiplying. In the US alone, there are more than a thousand. California’s Y Combinator has funded more than 1,000 companies now worth $65 billion, and admission to their program is more competitive than Harvard or Yale. UBI Global, headquartered in Sweden, looked at more than 1,200 university accelerators and incubators to arrive at its ranking of the top incubators of 2015. First place went to England’s SetSquared Partnership, a collaboration between the universities of Bath, Bristol, Exeter, Southampton and Surrey. With 6 sites at the 5 research-intensive universities, SetSquared has helped more than a thousand companies raise over £1 billion, and create 9,000 jobs. The #2 incubator in the world is the Innovation Incubation Center at Chaoyang University of Technology in Taiwan. The top university incubator in North America, #3 in the world, is the DMZ at Ryerson University. The DMZ has launched more than 180 companies, creating more than 1,000 jobs, and attracting $70 million in seed funding. Politicians and the business community praise the DMZ for creating better quality jobs, and harnessing the innovative capacity of the nation. Ryerson has launched other incubation zones, including the Fashion Zone, Design Fabrication Zone, ZoneStartups India, the Transmedia Zone, the Legal Innovation Zone, and the Social Ventures Zone. Ryerson DMZ video: https://youtu.be/IGncBRPg1TI As we mentioned previously, colleges and universities are emphasizing experiential learning opportunities, and incubators are just one high-profile approach. Some academics question whether higher education should really be in the business of incubating businesses, but as more and more students graduate into a freelance and innovation economy, business incubators make sense as an extension of campus career services and research commercialization. If we want to prepare our students for successful futures and meaningful citizenship, they are going to require an entrepreneurial mindset.