Enterprise and entrepreneurship
Source: https://www.bath.ac.uk/professional-services/enterprise-and-entrepreneurship/ Parent: https://www.bath.ac.uk/
We work with businesses, researchers, and students to enable new ideas, innovation, and growth.
We can support your business through access to expertise, innovation and funding.
We can support you to apply your research to launch innovative new enterprises and partnerships.
Enterprise Bath can help you achieve your entrepreneurial ambitions and support you on your enterprising journey whilst at university.
Offering work space, business acceleration, enterprise activities, and network access for high-growth companies and the entrepreneurs that create them.
Our Enterprise Lab is an innovation space where researchers and students can meet and access support to develop their entrepreneurial ideas.
University of Bath staff, SETsquared Bath companies, and visitors can use the Engine Shed Members' Lounge, free of charge for meetings.
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 Digital Security and Behaviour
- Institute for Sustainability and Climate Change
- Institute for the Augmented Human
- Institute of Coding
- Innovation Centre for Applied Sustainable Technologies (iCAST)
- Centre for the Analysis of Motion, Entertainment Research and Applications (CAMERA)
More on our research centres and research institutes.
HydroHaptics – a responsive new tech that allows you to dim lights by squeezing a cushion or sculpt on a screen by pinching a mouse – is being developed at Bath
Innovation to Commercialisation of University Research (ICURe) supports best new ideas from UK research for investment-ready spinouts and license agreements.
Accelerated Knowledge Transfer (AKT) funding from Innovate UK is open until 2 July. See successful examples of University of Bath AKTs from the last round.
Enterprise Day 2025 brought together the University of Bath’s entrepreneurial ecosystem to celebrate and develop our enterprise activities.
Spinouts from the SETsquared Partnership universities of Bath, Bristol, Cardiff, Exeter, Southampton and Surrey raised an impressive £273m investment in 2024.
Lux Rewards loyalty scheme acquired at an eight-figure valuation
15 Oct 2025 2.15pm
CB 5.5, The Chancellors' Building , University of Bath
Come along to our meetup to learn more and meet likeminded fellow researchers.
4 Mar 2026 12.30pm
Online
This Ignite+ event is part of our Bitesize series. This session is about Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTPs).
25 Mar 2026 12.30pm
Online
A session as part of the Ignite+ Bitesize event series on Consultancy, what service the University offers and how to go about it.
We welcome and support innovative people and organisations who want to create the enterprises of the future.
Our goal is to build and sustain a regional entrepreneurial ecosystem which inspires and supports our staff, students, graduates, and local entrepreneurs.
We aim to foster a vibrant, innovative culture with access to programmes, expertise and support to develop entrepreneurial talent.