Enterprise: For businesses
We can support your business through access to expertise, innovation and funding.
Enterprise and entrepreneurship
We work with businesses, researchers, and students to enable new ideas, innovation, and growth.
Enterprising minds
We welcome and support innovative people and organisations who want to create the enterprises of the future.
Enterprise: For researchers
We can support you to apply your research to launch innovative new enterprises and partnerships.
Enterprise: For students
We can help you achieve your entrepreneurial ambitions and support you on an enterprising journey.
Our enterprise spaces
Our enterprise spaces provide the environments where enterprising minds can be nurtured and inspired.
University of Bath Innovation Centre
Offering work space, business acceleration, enterprise activities, and network access for high-growth companies and the entrepreneurs that create them.
Enterprise Lab
Our Enterprise Lab is an innovation space where researchers and students can meet and access support to develop their entrepreneurial ideas.
Engine Shed Members' Lounge
University of Bath staff, SETsquared Bath companies, and visitors can use the Engine Shed Members' Lounge, free of charge for meetings.
Our research centres and institutes
We have a range of multidisciplinary research centres and institutes which work in partnership with external organisations including:
- Institute for Advanced Automotive Propulsion Systems (IAAPS)
- Institute for Sustainability
- Innovation Centre for Applied Sustainable Technologies (iCAST)
- Institute of Coding
- Centre for the Analysis of Motion, Entertainment Research and Applications (CAMERA)
- Water Innovation and Research Centre (WIRC)
News
Our latest enterprise news.
Innovate UK awards University KTP with ioMosaic 'Outstanding’
The University of Bath’s KTP with ioMosaic, to reduce and manage risk in critical safety processes, has been awarded ‘Outstanding’ by Innovate UK.
University of Bath success at The SPARKies Awards 2024 to celebrate the best in tech
University of Bath spinout EnsiliTech wins Most Innovative Use of Tech, and alumnus Laurence James wins Best Mentor at The SPARKies Awards 2024.
Ignite+ Beyond Bricks and Mortar supports co-creation of sustainable construction materials
How the Ignite+ Beyond Bricks and Mortar workshop helped foster collaboration within the sustainable construction material sector.
University of Bath KTP with Mayden showcased at European conference
The University of Bath KTP with Mayden, to enhance mental health services, has been showcased at the European Conference on Operational Research in Copenhagen.
University of Bath academic entrepreneurs address delegates at EntreConf 2024
Academic entrepreneurs from the University of Bath help to provide unrivalled inspiration at EntreConf, the conference for the region’s entrepreneurs.
Soil power: UK startup Bactery is generating sustainable energy from the earth
University of Bath startup creates sustainable power from bacterial batteries – ‘Bacteries’ – that harvest electricity from soil
Events
Our latest enterprise events.
First Thursday at SETsquared Bath Innovation Centre
5 Sep 2024 8.30am
SETsquared Bath Innovation Centre,
Bath
Each month we bring you three lightning talks on entrepreneurship, funding, new tech and how to grow a business.
Ignite+: Meet the Funder DASA (Defence and Security Accelerator)
24 Sep 2024 12.15pm
Chancellors Building 5.1,
The Chancellors' Building,
University of Bath
Mike Madden, DASA Innovation Partner will be presenting at the University of Bath on, the types of projects they fund, funding mechanisms and how to apply.
The FWD Project: Winning work from the public sector
22 Oct 2024 9.00am
The Innovation Centre,
Bath
Join us for an insightful event designed to empower health start-ups and SMEs with the knowledge and tools they need to secure new public sector contracts.