Warwick Business School | WBS - Welcome to ......2015/10/22 · {20 slides x 20 seconds} •22/10/15 –Enterprise at Warwick Webinar, Online •18/11/15 - Enterprise at Warwick Conference,

Welcome to Entrepreneurship at Warwick WebinarThursday 22 October 2015

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Agenda

18:00 Welcome to Entrepreneurship at Warwick – Steve Hales, Lead Ambassador, WEPN

18:05 3 minute presentations

18:45 Q & A (please type your questions in the text box throughout the presentations to be asked at the end)

18:55 Closing comments – Steve Hales

19:00 Event ends

Presentations• The Warwick Enterprise Partnership, Richard Groves

• Warwick Business School, Kevin Mole

• Enactus Student Society, Angel Matoke-Njagi

• Warwick Entrepreneurship Professional Network (WEPN), Steve Hales

• Minerva Business Angels / Warwick Science Park, Tim Powell

• Warwick Ventures, Brendan Spillane

• Crowdfund Campus, Henry Jinman

• Warwick Entrepreneurs, Elena Menidiatis

• Warwick Ventures Software Incubator, Brendan Spillane

• Warwick Tech Society, Alex Bucknell

• WBSS, Ibby Babiker

• Warwick Entrepreneurs Incubator, Tim Maecker

Warwick Enterprise Partnership

Richard Groves

Enterprise Pathway Manager

Being Enterprising

Being Entrepreneurial

Enterprise in the Curriculum

Warwick Enterprise Pathway

Objectives for 2015/16

1. Plan a physical space on campus

2. Develop a virtual space

3. Contribute to Global Entrepreneurship Week (18-20 November)

4. Develop the Warwick Hackathon Programme

5. Support student-led activities & networking

6. Develop an external enterprise strategy

7. Determine roles and governance

Autumn Term…

Enterprise at Warwick Conference

Student Enterprise Fund

Student Enterprise Bootcamp

www.warwick.ac.uk/enterprise

Warwick Business School

Research in the Group 2014


Full-time academic members of the EI group

Entrepreneurship

Prof James Hayton

Prof Andy Lockett

Prof John Lyon

Prof Deniz Ucbasaran

Dr Stuart Fraser

Dr Kevin Mole

Dr Noni Symeonidou

Dr Sebastiaan van Doorn

Innovation

Prof Nicos Nicolaus

Prof Stephen Roper

Creativity

Dr Tamara Friedrich

Dr David Petersen

Health

Prof Graeme Currie

Prof Eivor Oborn


Innovation (and Enterprise Research Centre)


Health


Entrepreneurship


Creativity

Mentorship

Enactus Warwick Social

enactuswarwick.com:

Enactus Warwick Commercial

Enactus Warwick Consulting

Join us:

enactuswarwick.com

Facebook - Enactus Warwick

Steve HalesLead Ambassador

Warwick Entrepreneurship Professional Network

www.wepn.warwick.ac.uk

http://wepn.warwick.ac.uk/

Connect … Meet … Learn

Warwick Entrepreneurship Professional Network - WEPN

For start-ups and early-stage businesses

For Alumni, Students and Staff

Up & Coming Events


{20 slides x 20 seconds}

• 22/10/15 – Enterprise at Warwick Webinar, Online

• 18/11/15 - Enterprise at Warwick Conference, Warwick

• 22/01/16 – Fintech Seminar, The Shard

Next event:

Enterprise at Warwick Conference Wednesday 18th November 2015

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/enterprise/news/conference

/booking/

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/enterprise/news/conference/booking/

LinkedIn & Twitter


WEPN Group on LinkedIn

WEPN on Twitter


Steve HalesSapien Innovations

Dale CampbellInbrandgible

HenryJinmanCrowdfund Campus

Raph WeningerW’k Entrepreneurs

Dimitris ServisAutoForm

Anthony HuntleyPwC

Jen YoungWBS

Sue ThornWBS

John LyonWBS

Richard ParrisIntercede

Mark PaytonMercia Fund Mgmt

More CommitteeMembers RequiredCommittee

Kevin MoleWBS

What Next


Sign-up for next event on 18th Novhttp://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/e

nterprise/news/conference/booking/

Join WEPN LinkedIn Group

Visit the websitehttp://wepn.warwick.ac.uk/

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/enterprise/news/conference/booking/

http://wepn.warwick.ac.uk/

Thank you


Steve HalesLead Ambassador, WEPN

[email protected]+44 7912 981430

Director / Partner of Sapien Companies:-http://sapien-innovations.co.uk/

http://www.sapienaccountants.com/http://www.sapien.it/

mailto:[email protected]

http://sapien-innovations.co.uk/

http://www.sapienaccountants.com/

http://www.sapien.it/

Incubating Innovation

University of Warwick Science Park

The Science Park is more than just buildings

A2I – Access to Incubation

A2M – Access to Markets

A2F – Access to Finance

A2K – Access to Knowledge

Experience shows that new & growing businesses need a range of support:-

• Business Planning and market viability assessment – Business Ready

• Product Validation – Techmark, Access to Finance, Ignite

• Management - Whole business support team does planning/ strategy

• Money - Minerva/ Access to Finance/ Ignite

• Marketing - Techmark

• Mentoring – Ignite, Access to Finance, Techmark

• Connections – ability to bring in or refer specialists or refer compnaies

Business Ready Support - Fostering Growth

Business Ready

The range of our Business Support Service covers :-

• Ignite -(A2I) An Incubation Service for early stage/start-up companies. A supportive environment that provides physical space combined with

dedicated support and mentoring accessible as required to support the enterprises development.

• Techmark- (A2M) A technical marketing service designed to support innovation-led and knowledge intensive businesses by undertaking

market viability reviews to assist and identify access to UK and O’Seas markets in support of the business proposition.

Access to Finance (A2F)- A specialist service that assists companies overcome the most common barriers to growth and sustainability by

assessing their funding requirements, identifying & accessing the sources of funding most appropriate to their needs whether debt, grant or equity.

Minerva Business Angel Network (A2F)– 150 + Business Angel Investors spread across 7 groups around the Midlands. Managed

from the Science Park and whose investors have since invested £6.5m into 48 young early stage enterprises “2010 hels Manged for 20 years

• Knowledge Connections (A2K) – We connect businesses to the University’s extensive range of knowledge in addition to specialist

facilities internally and externally such as the WMG, WBS, MTC (catapult) HTDI, SGI.

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Commercialisation of Technology from

From Innovation to ImpactDeveloping and commercialising research

The “Technology Transfer Office” for Warwick

22October2015

Brendan SpillaneWarwick Ventures Ltd

©2015 Warwick Ventures Ltd

Our drivers

• Economic and social impact from research

– “Impact” supports core research funding

• Reputation of Warwick research

• Financial return

• Enterprise across the University


What we do

• Identify innovations

• Protect intellectual property (IP)

• Develop

• Commercialise

• Manage University’s interests

• Support enterprise

From Innovation to Impact


Protect Intellectual Property

• Patents

• Copyright

• Know How (or trade secrets)

• Plant breeders rights

• Contract negotiation


Develop Innovations

• Commercial readiness

– Proof of market

– Proof of concept

– People

• >£300k invested in proof of market/concept projects in 2013/14


Commercialise - spinouts

• Spinouts

– 88 companies in 15 years

– 30 trading

• Investment

– >£60m invested


Commercialise - licences

• Commercial licences

• Material Transfer Agreements (MTAs)

• Evaluation licences

• Non Disclosure Agreements (NDAs)


Promoting Enterprise

• Warwick Enterprise Partnership

• Warwick Ventures Software Incubator

• Lectures and Workshops and Tier1

• Informal chats with undergrads / postgrads / alumni to provide advice and mentorship


Talk to us

• Experienced commercial team

• Supporting academics to achieve research impact

• Access to funding, industry and people

• Training

• Sounding board

www.warwickventures.com

[email protected]

http://www.warwickventures.com/


Overview

The Warwick Entrepreneurs Pathway

MentorsExtensive network Internships

www.warwickentrepreneurs.co.uk President: Sergiy TomchaniEmail: [email protected]

Website Contact

“Everyone is an entrepreneur - You just need to realise it”

Global Entrepreneurship Week

Innovation Playground

Apprentice

W.E. Empower & Hackathon

Incubator

BYOB

Start-up Fair & Conference


Inspire, Develop and Support

• Who we are • 960 members

• 70 nationalities

• 25 degree disciplines

• What we offer • Present:

• Future: Internship opportunities

www.warwickventures.com

Commercialisation of Technology from

from Innovation to Impact

Brendan Spillane22nd October 2015

www.warwickventures.com©2015 Warwick Ventures Ltd

IP

For all IP coming out of University Research

Staff or research students come through Warwick Ventures

However

Lots of people have good ideas that aren’t research, and don’t have University IP


Warwick Ventures Software Incubator

Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dempsey

All well known, all started companies based on ideas they had as students

Microsoft, Facebook and Twitter



An initiative to help students, staff and alumni that have great software ideas

For students, staff and alumni that want to turn great software ideas into a business

The software incubator can guide you through your first commercial steps



What’s your Big Idea?

What might help that idea take off?

Advice? Support? A place to work with others and share ideas? Networks?

Space in the Avon Building

For people that have made the commitment



Don’t incorporate straight away

Develop product

Throw it away, or most of it

Try again

When customers like it..



Start selling. Warwick connection is good

When proven the business can sell product and make money, incorporate, and if needed find investment

Everything for 8 months free

10% equity on incorporation if you have a trading profitable business



9 to 18 months: 1% equity a month if still developing product, max 20%.

OR

9 to 18 months: 10% turnover, minimum £250 a month (for the team) if making money but want to stay in the incubator.


www.warwick.ac.uk/softwareincubator

Brendan [email protected]

024 765 75480

Who are we?

What do we do?

What’s coming up?

How to find us?

www.warwick.tech

facebook.com/warwicktech

twitter.com/warwicktech

H o w t o f i n d u s ?

WBSS | Warwick Business School Society

Warwick Business School Society

• Largest independent society at Warwick with over 2,500 members

• Numerous Corporate and Social Events

• Diversity of Sponsors and Corporate Events

WBSS & Entrepreneurship

Business Week

Networking Events

Talks

Business Week

Talks

Networking Events

Ways to get involved

facebook.com/WarwickIncubator www.warwickincubator.com @WWIncubator

The Warwick Incubator was established last year to help support and

grow great entrepreneurs and startups at Warwick University.

What are you in for this year?

• 14-week structured program. We teach you necessary skills.

• Community, Co-Working Space and Library. Get to know like-minded

people.

• Mentorship & Industry Expertise. We put you in touch.

• Demo Day. We prepare you for the next step.

What we do

14 weeks. 3 Stages. 1 Product.

You will:

• entrepreneurially-

minded,

• creative problem solving

skills,

Business Development

Customer Discovery

Growth

• ability to lead and work in

a team,

• achieving your visions

Last Year.

Demo Day.

Campus Demo DayInvestor Demo Day

Demo Day.

Startup Fair

Resources.

Community.

Partners.

[email protected]

We Want To Hear From You.

www.warwickincubator.com| @WWIncubator | Warwick Incubator

If you have any questions, do not hesitate to ask us! We are glad for

any clarification we can give you and we encourage each and every

one of you to apply for the programme!

Thank you

• Don’t forget to sign up for the Global Entrepreneurship Week conference being held on campus on 18 November to meet us all.http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/enterprise/news/conference/booking/

• Slides and list of delegates with emails will be shared with you tomorrow.

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Warwick Business School | WBS - Welcome to ......2015/10/22 · {20 slides x 20 seconds} •22/10/15 –Enterprise at Warwick Webinar, Online •18/11/15 - Enterprise at Warwick Conference,