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WORLD LEADING BUSINESS SUPPORT
Derive more IMPACT from your research activities
Validate the market for products or services that utilise your research
Apply for funding to enable market exploration
Engage with
competitors, regulators and stakeholders
Receive expert feedback and guidance at the end of your ICURe journey
SETsquared is an ICURe delivery partner and runs regular cohorts of the programme.
The ICURe Engage programme will train research students and technicians (from all disciplines) and provide them with the space and opportunity to empower pioneers to explore entrepreneurship as a viable and exciting career choice and accelerate the growth of their start-ups.
Who can apply?
ICURe Engage is open to research students and technicians (all disciplines) from all UK universities and PSRE (Public Sector Research Establishments).
What’s included?
Upcoming cohort: October 2024 Learn more and apply
The market discovery programme is designed using lean start-up methodology which takes the scientific method (hypothesise, test, evaluate) and applies it to business ideas. You will learn how to use this approach to test what your potential customers think about your idea, product, or service. Past participants say that having 8 weeks of support and dedicated time to spend on customer discovery has dramatically changed their perspective on their innovation.
Who can apply?
ICURe Discover is open to research students and technicians (all disciplines) from all UK universities and PSRE (Public Sector Research Establishments).
What’s included?
Learn more about ICURe Discover
Upcoming cohort: (Women Entrepreneurs Only) November 2024. Find out more and apply.
The ICURe Explore programme is designed using lean start-up methodology and funded by Innovate UK. Lean start-up takes the scientific method (hypothesise, test, evaluate) and applies it to business ideas. Your team will learn how to use this approach to test what your potential customers think about your idea, product, or service.
Past participants say that having three months of commercialisation support, dedicated time, and funding to spend on customer discovery has dramatically changed their perspective on their innovation.
Who can apply?
ICURe Explore is open to research teams in the UK excluding those from incorporated and/or trading companies. This includes but is not limited to, UK researchers in a public or academic lab, a research institute, an incubator, or a national facility
We particularly welcome applications from universities in Wales. We are committed to improving diversity across our programmes and are actively seeking applications from under-represented groups including women, people of colour, those with disabilities, those from the LGBTQI+ communities, and Universities who have not previously participated in our programmes.
What’s included?
*Subject to receiving a recommendation at Options Roundabout and Visa restrictions.
Learn more about ICURe Explore
Upcoming cohort: January 2025. Learn more and apply
Who can apply?
ICURe Exploit is exclusively for teams recommended for spin-out following participation in the ICURe Explore programme.
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