These sessions are for WBS students and graduates, giving you the opportunity to share your business venture ideas with experienced entrepreneurs and academics here at Warwick Business School.
We strive to inspire, teach and actively encourage you as an entrepreneur, equipping you with the skills to develop your entrepreneurial mindset, create organisational impact, and launch your own venture.
We’re influencing practice and policy as leaders in entrepreneurship and innovation research, and we bring this pioneering knowledge to the classroom. Our faculty work on diverse and cutting-edge topics, including entrepreneurial leadership, healthcare management, corporate entrepreneurship, open innovation, knowledge management, SME growth and public innovation policies.
Read on to discover more about the entrepreneurial support you'll access at Warwick Business School and the University of Warwick.
Discover Entrepreneurship at Warwick
These sessions are for WBS students and graduates, giving you the opportunity to share your business venture ideas with experienced entrepreneurs and academics here at Warwick Business School.
WBS students and alumni can access the Warwick Enterprise Start-up Programme from our base at The Shard or at the University of Warwick campus. Receive support from a Start-up Coach, workshops, and introductions to other businesses, providers, and experts in the University of Warwick and Warwick Innovation District ecosystem.
Warwick Enterprise aims to increase the number of students and graduates who are interested in an entrepreneurial career. They can help you develop your entrepreneurial skills and try out new business ideas and social enterprises.
The Warwick Innovation District is a large, open innovation ecosystem covering Coventry and Warwickshire. Access to entrepreneurial support is available through a range of programmes, including the Female Founders Programme, Natwest Entrepreneur Accelerator, the AI & Data Accelerator, and the Creative Futures Incubator.
Developed in the Behavioural Science group at Warwick Business School, Nudgeathon aims to produce solutions to major problems by drawing on insights and methods from behavioural science, as well as from psychology, economics, design and the performing arts.
Find out more about Nudgeathon
Minerva Business Angels started in 1994 to support the tenants of the University of Warwick Science Park and has grown into the UK's largest syndicated networks.
Warwick Enterprise Start-up Programme supports WBS students and alumni in founding their own start-ups, offering specialist coaching, entrepreneurial workshops, and networking, all from WBS London, The Shard.
Discover how Warwick Business School supports entrepreneurs through the Warwick Enterprise Start-up Programme at The Shard.
Meet our undergraduate alumni, Varun Balsara and explore his journey with Let's Level Up, an intelligent business-in-a-box solution for educators, subject matter experts and coaches, enabling them to build, market and scale their online businesses.
The everyday businesses that make up most of the UK economy continue to struggle for recognition and appropriate support.
Researchers at Warwick Business School reveal how gender bias shapes start-up funding, exposing a persistent finance gap that influences investment decisions.
Two WBS alum share their expert insights on how to secure investment for your sustainable start-up.