Engineering Business Ideas Competition

We’ve teamed up with Engineers in Business Fellowship to bring you this Engineering Business Ideas Competition.

Win a share of £1,000 from Edinburgh Innovations, just for telling us about your idea. 

Are you in the School of Engineering and have a startup idea? Tell us all about it and you could win money to work on your idea.

We are looking for projects that will benefit from this level of support, and are at the 'idea' stage of development, although this doesn't necessarily disqualify businesses that are already formed and/or trading. Ideas will be judged based on being 'at idea stage', as well as overall desirability, viability, feasibility, and sustainability.

Engineers in Business Fellowship

This competition is sponsored by the Engineers in Business Fellowship, a registered charity that promotes business education for engineers. Founded in 2011 to fund the Sainsbury Management Fellows MBA Scholarships for engineers and other activities.

How to apply?

• Fill in the form via the ‘apply’ button by the deadline 27th November 2023
• Provide information on the name of your idea, any teammate details, summary of the idea, potential customers and what resources you would need.
• Please keep to the word limits and do not provide external supporting evidence such as links.

Who can apply?

All students and recent graduates from the School of Engineering - the University of Edinburgh. 

Judging

Ideas will be judged based on being 'at idea stage' although this doesn't necessarily disqualify businesses that are already formed and/or trading as well as overall desirability, viability, feasibility, and sustainability.

The winners will be announced on 30th November. You'll also receive an e-mail by the end of the week following the announcement, with the results of your application and feedback from the judges.

In order to accept the funds, you will need to agree that you will spend the money working on your business idea, and that you will continue working with Edinburgh Innovations to further develop the idea. 

Now closed.