University Competitions 2023

King’s College London has a thriving entrepreneurial community and has a dedicated Entrepreneurship Institute which runs an annual Idea Factory competition which encourages students to develop early-stage business ideas. The competition aims to…

Invent for the Planet (IFTP) is an innovation fostering 48-hour global collaborative hackathon, in which students from 27+ universities come together to tackle some of the biggest challenges facing our planet. Led by Texas A&M University is a…

The University of York’s Business Innovation & Entrepreneurship course provides broad coverage of what’s involved in the exploitation of technologies through innovation and entrepreneurship. It is a practical introduction to the creation and…

The Business Ideas Competition for Engineering Students and Graduates is run annually by the University’s commercialisation service, Edinburgh Innovations, and invites students to pitch their business ideas and win up to £1,000 to launch them. There…

The Solar Decathlon Design Challenge is an annual collegiate competition that challenges teams to design highly efficient, innovative, and sustainable buildings that are powered by renewable energy sources. The competition is organised by the US…

InvEnterPrize is Aberystwyth University’s Student Ideas Competition which is open to undergraduates, post-graduates and recent graduates. The competition rewards the entrant with the Best Business Idea.InvEnterPrize competition provides a yearly…

The University of Warwick’s Starting a Business module examines how businesses are established. The module gives second-year Engineering Undergraduates the opportunity to understand and appreciate the challenges involved in setting up their own…

Cardiff University run three awards as part of its Spring Start-Up Awards this year: Inspired Engineer, Social Enterprise and Go Getter. The Inspired Engineer awards were for engineering students and graduates who had an engineering-based idea, they…

Bright Ideas is Kingston University’s annual entrepreneurial competition, open to all students across the university. It is a major university initiative to encourage our students to develop key innovations and enterprise skills. It encourages…

Imperial College Business School’s Entrepreneurship module (BUSI60041) allows students to design a business based on gaps they saw in the market and issues relevant to their communities. Students were required to develop a pitch deck and videotape…

Venture is Scotland’s largest university funding competition for new business ideas. Venture is a three-stage new business idea competition for all University of Dundee Students, Staff and Recent Graduates split across different prize fund…

Cardiff Metropolitan University’s Idea Award is one of six categories featured in our Entrepreneurship Awards which takes place on our annual Day of Entrepreneurship. The event and awards are an opportunity to celebrate and showcase the…

The MSc Entrepreneurship Pitch Day competition fosters small teams of MSc Entrepreneurship and other UCL Engineering students to create innovative business ideas. Held annually, the competition concludes with a pitch and showcase event, evaluated by…

The University of Surrey’s Enterprise Project embraces the Surrey Electrical and Electronic Engineers in Business Competition. The Enterprise Project is a year-long group project carried out by second-year students from the Department of Electrical…

The Grand Challenge is a three-week project where students work in cross-disciplinary and cross-year teams to conceptualise, design and produce a product (in line with CDIO). They produce a business case, and a promotional video and demonstrate…

Run by the University of Nottingham and in partnership with Nuffield Health, the Ingenuity Programme provides start-up skills and training, networking, mentoring, and routes to funding for early-stage impact-driven businesses to make social and…

QUB’s Dragons’ Den, competition is one of many initiatives organised by SU Enterprise, the entrepreneurial arm of Queen’s Students’ Union which helps students develop enterprise skills and start their own businesses. Dragons’ Den competitors develop…

Elevate 2023 was the University of Exeter’s fifth year participating in the Engineers in Business Competition and was led by the Student Startups Team. The annual Elevate pitching competition encourages and supports engineers who want to take their…

The UHI Business Competition is an annual flagship event run by CREATE, the Highlands and Islands hub for Enterprise and Innovation based in the Centre for Living Sustainability at UHI Inverness.Entrepreneurship is vital to our local and national…

Imperial College Business School’s Entrepreneurship Online (BUSI60042) allows students to design a business based on gaps they saw in the market and issues relevant to their communities. Students were required to develop a pitch deck and videotape…

Engineering You’re Hired is an intensive one-week (35-hour) activity that is compulsory for all second years within the Faculty of Engineering. Students choose their problem and are then placed in multi-disciplinary, multi-cultural teams to work on…

The Business Case for An Engineering Design Proposal is an assessed component of the ENG0014 Engineering and Physical Sciences Laboratory and Project module. This project provides foundation students with an insight into the entrepreneurial aspects…

Run by the University of Nottingham and in partnership with Nuffield Health, the Ingenuity Programme provides start-up skills and training, networking, mentoring, and routes to funding for early-stage impact-driven businesses to make social and…

The University of Hertfordshire’s enterprise ideas challenge, Flare, is a highly competitive annual competition that gives Herts student and alumni entrepreneurs the support and training they need to bring their business ideas to life, no matter how…

The Engineering & Design Institute London (TEDI-London) is a collaborative, design‐led engineering provider co-founded by the three PLuS Alliance partners – Arizona State University, King’s College London and UNSW Sydney.TEDI-London’s Summer…

University of Birmingham engineering students entered into a competition to help solve real problems in society through engineering. Teams and individuals from across the university competed to win a share of a prize pot to help bring their ideas to…

The New Enterprise Competition is the University of Bristol’s flagship business idea challenge fund. Run annually, participants can win up to £35,000 in prize funding, in part sponsored by Engineers in Business. Prizes include cash, legal support,…

The University of Oxford’s Business Innovation award aims to reward engineers who develop ingenious ideas that could solve real problems in society in a sustainable manner. Projects are needs-led, have a strong market fit or have a well defined…

Durham University’s Bright Ideas Challenge was partially supported by an Engineers in Business prize fund. The Bright Ideas Challenge is an elevator pitch competition open to the university’s current engineering, computer science or bioscience…

WE Innovate – organised by Imperial Enterprise Lab, Imperial College London’s dedicated entrepreneurship training centre – is an annual six-month programme and competition championing women-led teams with an entrepreneurial idea to explore. Teams…

The Leading Engineering Endeavours Project is undertaken by second year engineering students at Birmingham City University (BCU). A total of 101 students took part this year, put into interdisciplinary teams drawn from mechanical, automotive,…

The University of Southampton runs prize fund competitions for students wanting to develop a business or social enterprise, with the Engineers in Business providing a component of this funding to students from Engineering & Physical Sciences.…

First year undergraduate students at London South Bank University’s School of Engineering undertook a group design project for their Design and Practice module. Students were tasked with developing business ideas that solved real problems London is…

Second year engineering students at Lancaster University develop ideas for business opportunities through the core ‘ENGR205 Business Development Project’ module. As a core component of the university’s programmes, the number of students registered…