Inspiring Innovation Conference9 May 2024The Centre for Innovation held a one-day conference focused on bringing regional businesses into the university to discuss how significant innovation can be enabled in a range of organisations – from start-ups through to multinational corporations.
Runway Pitch Competitions 20247 May 2024Ten incredible start-ups are on their way to change the world after winning a share of £100,000 in grant funding from the University.
Reflecting on Runway one year on25 July 2022Runway, the programme that supports student start-ups to take flight, is approaching its first birthday, so it feels right to take stock. The programme was born out a review of the Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship that recommended that the Centre deploy its entrepreneurial capability wider than just for students enrolled on its academic programmes.
Centre students visit Bristol’s cutting-edge tech and science start-ups.13 June 2022Bristol is home to a thriving culture of start-ups and on June 8th a group of our students got the chance to visit a pair of incubators whose companies are pioneering novel approaches across healthcare, science, and technology.
TEDx comes to the University of Bristol with aim of Forging Futures8 April 2022With the theme of 'Forging Futures' the University of Bristol’s TED Ideas Society recently announced that TEDxUniversityofBristol will take place on the 28th April 2022 with support from Runway, the University start-up hub.
Innovation graduates make a splash after closing £250k funding round8 February 2022The Innovation graduate team behind the UK’s first female urinal have raised £250,000 in their first funding round, as they strive to pioneer ‘pee-equality’ for women and make long queues for the ladies a thing of the past.
History with Innovation graduate hits the headlines with startup13 January 2022Two years ago Sonny Drinkwater was exercising 20 times a week and counting every single one of the 1,000 daily calories he consumed. Today he runs a start-up redefining healthy living and the food we eat.
Innovation Centre launches four new Master’s programmes2 December 2021With the world changing at an ever-faster rate the need for innovation and entrepreneurship has never been more desired. For graduates to thrive in a disrupted world they will need creativity as well as commercial acumen.