Entrepreneurial Awards and Prizes
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| 1) AOL Innovation in the Community Awards. £2000 for charities using digital technology. |
| http://info.aol.co.uk/about/community/innovation/index.adp |
| 2) Barclays. The Bid. £5000 cash prize for best idea and £2000 of free software for best business tip. |
| http://www.business.barclays.co.uk/BRC1/jsp/brccontrol?site=bbb&task=channelFWvi2&value=11080&target=_self |
| 3) Ben and Jerry’s Climate Change College. Free business mentorship, £7000 cash and a two week trip to the Arctic for environmental businesses. |
| http://www.climatechangecollege.org/aboutus/ |
| 4) Betavine (Vodafone) Campus Life Competition. Win up to 5000 Euros for an idea involving mobile devices that improve student life on the campus. |
| http://www.vodafonebetavine.net/web/guest/projects/students |
| 5) Biggart Baillie Innovation Award: cash prizes of £1000. |
| http://www.biggartbaillie.co.uk/about-us/what's-new/news-2007/news-november-2007/innovation-awards-08---turn-your-dreams-into-reality!.aspx |
| 6) Business Gateway/RBS Business Idea Competition. Win £5000 and £1000 of free legal advice |
| http://www.businessgatewayonline.org.uk/comp.html |
| 7) BT Essence of the Entrepreneur: win £20,000 for using technology to build a business. |
| http://www.essenceoftheentrepreneur.co.uk/home |
| 8) Chamber Awards: Win up to £25,000. |
| http://www.chamberawards.co.uk/2007/categories_entry.asp |
| 9) Dragons’ Den (BBC): Win investment on TV. Variable funds (say £50,000) depending on investor interest in return for equity. |
| http://www.bbc.co.uk/dragonsden/ |
| 10)Enterprising Solutions.Cash prize of £10,000 for Best Social Enterprise. |
| http://www.enterprisingsolutions.org/ |
| 11) Federation of Small Businesses “Most Promising New Business Award”. £1000 prize money. |
| http://www.fsb.org.uk/data/default.asp?id=40&loc=bsbc |
| 12) Future Vision 2008. Cash prize of £1000 and work placement for ideas for sustainable communities. |
| http://www.futurevisionaward.com/ |
| 13) Global Social Venture Competition. Cash prizes of up to £15,000. |
| http://socialvc.net/index.cfm?fuseaction=Page.viewPage&pageId=10 |
| 14) Global Student Entrepreneurs Awards. Prizes of around $100,000. |
| http://www.gsea.org/awards |
| 15) HSBC Start-Up Stars. Win £50,000 cash for UK’s most promising start-up business. |
| http://www.startupstars.hsbc.co.uk/ |
| 16) HSBC Unipreneurs: Prize money of up to £20,000. |
| http://www.hsbc.co.uk/1/2/business/accounts/unipreneurs |
| 17) IBM Universities Business Challenge. Undergraduate teams can win up to £1000. |
| http://www.uk.ubcworldwide.com/content/index.asp |
| 18) John Logie Baird Innovation Prize: £1,000 in cash and up to £19,000 in-kind support for various categories of innovation |
| http://www.johnlogiebairdawards.co.uk |
| 19) Lee Kuan Yew Global Business Plan Competition (Singapore Management University and HSBC): Win up to $69,000 in cash, prizes and business development opportunities. |
| http://www.smu.edu.sg/lky/2008/overview.asp |
| 20) Make Your Mark (Enterprising Young Brits). Win £1000 in various business categories. |
| http://www.makeyourmark.org.uk/get_involved/enterprising_young_brits |
| 21) Microsoft’s “The Ingenuity Point”. $25,000- $50,000 in marketing, PR, video production & company video and more for best software in one of Healthcare, Education or Clean Technology. |
| http://www.theingenuitypoint.com/main/Prizes.aspx |
| 22) NatWest Start-Up Business of the Year: £5,000 prize money. Many categories: |
| http://www.startupsawards.co.uk/award_categories.htm |
| 23) NESTA (Starter for 6 Programme): Training and win up to £10,000 in funding. |
| http://www.nesta.org.uk/programmes/starter_for_6/index.aspx |
| 24) New Start Scotland: Win around £5000 in cash and £30,000 in business services. |
| http://www.newstartscotland.com/exhibition/bright-business-idea-competition.php |
| 25) New Ventures World Competition. Win up to $7000. |
| http://www.cba.unl.edu/outreach/ent/bpc/ |
| 26) Oxford University 21st Century Challenge: Win up to £35,000 in cash. |
| http://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/21challenge?utm_source=JulyEmail&utm_medium=Email&utm_content=MoreLink |
| 27) Positive Destinations: Up to £500,000 from BBC Children in Need and the Hunter Foundation for initiative in education, employment and training for young to 16 year old kids. |
| http://www.socialeconomybelfast.org/main/article/view/29/986/ |
| 28) Real World Awards. Win up to £5000 in 4 categories. Must be a subscriber to the magazine. |
| http://www.herecomestheboss.com/rwa/controller.php?action=RegisterUploadGOTY |
| 29) Research Council Business Plan Competition: win up to £25,000 of start-up funding. |
| http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/innovation/fundingkt/bpc/default.htm |
| 30) Royal Academy of Engineering ERA Foundation Entrepreneurs Award: Win around £10,000 in cash and £30,000 in business services. |
| http://www.raeng.org.uk/prizes/era/default.htm |
| 31) Royal Society of Chemistry Innovation Awards: three awards of £4000. |
| http://www.rsc.org/ScienceAndTechnology/AwardsAndFunding/Innovation/ |
| 32) Royal Society of Edinburgh Gannochy Trust Innovation Award: Prize of £50,000. |
| http://www.ma.hw.ac.uk/RSE/research_fellowships/gannochy.htm |
| 33) Royal Society of Edinburgh Enterprise Fellowships: Salary, costs and business formation mentorship for one year’s fellowship. Value of circa £30,000-£50,000. |
| http://www.ma.hw.ac.uk/RSE/research_fellowships/enterprise.htm |
| 34) Saatchi and Saatchi Innovation Awards: A prize of $100,000 for innovation in communication. |
| http://www.saatchi.com/innovation/call_for_entries_new.html |
| 35) Scottish Institute for Enterprise: Awards of up to £20,000 for best business ideas and plans. |
| http://www.sie.ac.uk/events_businessplancomp.aspx |
| 36) Shell Springboard: Awards of between £20,000 - £40,000 for ideas that help combat climate change. |
| http://www.shellspringboard.org/?c=1 |
| 37) Shell LiveWIRE Grand Ideas Awards offer up to to 5 x £1,000 prizes each month to the most innovative or unusual ideas submitted by new businesses in their first 12 months of trading. |
| www.shell-livewire.org |
| 38) Strathclyde Supernovas: two prizes (1) Brightest Young Business: Free MIT Corporate Strategy Course, and (2), Most Dazzling New Product Idea; £5000. |
| http://www.strath.ac.uk/strathclydesupernovas/ |
| 39) The Field Young Rural Entrepreneur of the Year Award: win £10,000 in cash. |
| http://www.thefield.co.uk/homefeature/127739/Young_Rural_Entrepreneur_of_2007.html |
| 40) The mai Bangkok Business Challenge. Win upto $10,000 in cash in a global Finance or MBA student competition. |
| http://bbc.in.th/index.php |
| 41) The Technology Transfer in Opto-Electroncs and Micro-Electronics Awards. £5000 award to a University to work on an SME project of interest. |
| http://www.ttom.org.uk/ |
| 42) Volvo Environmental Prize. Win around £115,000 for best environmental idea or impact. |
| http://www.environment-prize.com/nominate_prize.e |
| 43) Rushlight Awards: for new ideas on alternative energy sources and waste recycling. |
| http://www.rushlightawards.co.uk/index.php/em/event/action/view/frmEventID/1/frmPageID/2/ |
| 44) Shell Live Wire Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award: £10000 and media exposure. |
| http://www.shell-livewire.org/ |
| 45) The Prowess Award: for inspiring business women. |
| http://www.prowess.org.uk/conference/Awards.htm#submittingnomination |
| 46) Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation Awards: extensive media coverage in the WSJ. |
| http://www.dowjones.com/innovation/ei_faqs.html |
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| 47) Biotechnology YES: free training and mentorship for bioscientists. |
| http://www.biotechnologyyes.co.uk/ |