Doctoral focal award: UKRI venture doctorates: outline stage
Funding for entrepreneurship-focused doctoral training and venture creation.
This opportunity supports large-scale venture doctoral focal awards to train the next generation of researchers and innovators. Awards provide doctoral training that strengthens links between research, innovation and enterprise and supports venture creation.
Applications must support a minimum of 50 students across up to five annual cohorts. The training combines academically rigorous research wi…
The opportunity supports doctoral training that strengthens links between research, innovation and enterprise and supports venture creation. Applications must clearly support at least one of the eight high-growth sectors in the UK government’s Industrial Strategy and move beyond classroom-based commercialisation training, with spin-out creation being the intended commercial output from the outset.
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