If you have a well developed business idea and you're ready to go, or if you have already launched a new business or social enterprise, enter the New Ventures Competition and you could win a cash prize and a package of business support designed to give you the essential help you need when you're starting out!

The New Ventures Competition (NVC) will help accelerate your plan for a business or social enterprise and help unleash the full potential of your idea. Previous winners and entrants of our competition have gone on to be offered investment on BBC's Dragon's Den, secure significant funding elsewhere, and are continuing to grow their companies successfully.

New Ventures can be where it all starts for you!

There are multiple categories to the competition with specific judging criteria per category and more chances to win.

2012-13 New Ventures Competition categories:

• Sustainability in the Environment
• Digital Innovation
• Product Design and Engineering
• Science and Technology
• Arts and Cultural Enterprises
• Service

The competition is now closed for 2012-13.

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Results are in for the Category winners for 2012-13 NVC.  We're pleased to announce that the winners are: -

• Rosalind Romer - University of Edinburgh - Arts/Culture
• Mark Hughes - University of Edinburgh - Digital
• Helen Fisher - Edinburgh/ ECA - Product Design
• Amanda Jack - Glasgow Caledonian University - Science/ Tech
• Assean Sheikh - University of Strathclyde - Service
• Carsten Vollebregt - University of Edinburgh - Sustainability in Environment