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Come to Edinburgh Don’t get a job. Build a business!
Dr Steve Ewing
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School of Informatics
•Scale: largest informatics research centre in Europe;
•Excellence: best in the UK;– According to the 2 last Research Assessment Exercises
– No.1 in 2010 Guardian survey for teaching
•Disruptive: most startups & spinouts in the UK;– 61 in last 6 years and 262 since 2000
– Heart of the Edinburgh Tech Cluster
• #2 tech cluster in UK
Source: http://www.spinoutsuk.co.uk
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Once upon a time in 2006…
Buccleuch Pc.
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Edinburgh startup ecosystem 2014
Waverley Gate
Quartermile
Silicon Walk
Techcube
Evo House
Appleton TowerDataLab
Codebase
Aniseed
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Student Entrepreneurship Support
Launch.ed
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Network developmenttechmeetup.co.uk
EDI/ABZ/GLA/DUN/INV
Appathons/Hackathons
EducationiVenture Tuesday
CEO Master Classes
MIT EDP & Ignite
Startup Summer School
Investment guidanceEngage Invest Exploit
EIR & mentor panel
Inclusiongirlgeekscotland.co.uk
Residential workshops
Knowledge ExchangedemoFEST
Industrial Innovation events
Vendor ConnectionsBizspark
Smart Camp
Developing the Entrepreneurial Community
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What do all these companies have in
common?
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Empowerment
• Disruptive Companies in this sector were founded by people <25
• Mobile Phone Apps Group - promoting Mobile Phone Apps as a business opportunity and training ground
• Engagement with the major platform vendors
- iPhone, Android, Nokia. Microsoft Mobile
• Similar to the Tech Meet up – connecting community work
• Engagement with local SME’s in this niche
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Most Winners in the Silicon Valley Appathon 2011
• 2 winning teams (25% of prizes)
• Eye Sore and School Hunt
• Local Winners – iPads
• National winners – a week in the US @SSW and the Valley
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& $100,000• US based Non-for-profit, set up by Michael Baum (Splunk)
• Only Tier-1 educational establishments
– Edinburgh, Harvard, MIT, Stanford, TU Berlin, Polytechnique…
• 10 “winners” this year
– $100,000 each team
– Educational/mentoring program
– $100M Venture fund for A-round follow on
• Looking for the next BIG company in technology
• UoE ‘warm-up’: 27 student teams pitching in 60 Second Pitch Offs
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Engage Invest Exploit (EIE)• EIE13: largest investor conference outside London
– Showcase for the best spinout and startup companies from Scotland's world class universities entrepreneurial ecosystem;
– 500+ guests, 60 companies, 140 investors;
– Keynotes at EIE13: Sir Tom Hunter, Sherry Coutu;
– Successfully transferred to London in 2013;
• Tech, Energy/Clean Tech and Life Sciences Streams;
• A program, not just a conference;
– Mentoring, presentation skills training, networking;
• Save the date! - EIE14 Edinburgh - Assembly Rooms, 8 May.
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for entrepreneurs by entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurs in Residence
And Business Mentors•Colin Adams – Director of Commercialisation;•Crawford Beveridge – SE & Chair of Autodesk;•Gerry Docherty – New Media Partners & Par Equity;•Derek Gray – Adobe;•Sarah Lee – MD & Founder of Hot Tin Roof; •Ian Ritchie – founded Owl and internet pioneer;•Judy Wilson – MD of Marketry.
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Informatics at Edinburgh…
…building futures.