Funding

RSE Enterprise Fellowships: Open for Applications

Submitted by david.hendry@BB... on Fri, 12/18/2020 - 15:00

MEMBER NEWS: 

The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) part of UK Research and Innovation, is currently seeking proposals to the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) Enterprise Fellowship programme which supports researchers who wish to play a key role in the commercialisation of their research.

RSE Enterprise Fellowships provide a salary, mentoring and formal business training, allowing the Enterprise Fellow to focus solely on developing their business over a 12-month period.

FUNDING OPPORTUNITY: The Trinity Challenge

Submitted by leanne.kenyon@p... on Mon, 10/12/2020 - 16:15

 

 

GSK is proud to be one of 22 Founding Members of The Trinity Challenge. The Trinity Challenge is a global coalition comprising business, academia, and the social sector.  The Founding Members are united by the common aim of ensuring the destruction and devastation to lives and livelihoods caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, never happens again.

Opportunity for Funding to Support Researchers Planning Future Spin-Outs in the area of Healthy Ageing

Submitted by craig.smith@pra... on Fri, 12/06/2019 - 09:09

 

The scope of this funding is for any translational activity which will accelerate the development of new therapeutics which improve health in old age. This could include diagnostics or daily-living monitoring technology that could be used to stratify or provide novel endpoints for a clinical trial.

Up to £75k per project is available. This fund can only cover direct costs, and only English HEIs are eligible to apply.

For further information, please contact David.Bowkett@medsci.ox.ac.uk
 

Conference Report 2015: Funding – beyond grants, competitions and bootstrapping

Submitted by davem+amy@circl... on Tue, 07/07/2015 - 10:54

The audience heard three perspectives on funding mechanisms for early stage companies. Brian McCaul was first up and gave the Technology Transfer Office’s (TTO) perspective on Equity Crowdfunding for Tech Transfer, speaking from personal experience of running 3 successful equity crowd campaigns. Brian set out to address the questions why universities should embrace crowdfunding for commercialisation and why it need not hinder later stage rounds.