The latest effort made by London business school is the school’s Deloitte Institute of innovation and entrepreneurship, which would benefit seven very promising graduates with a future in innovative business ventures.
The students, whom won these awards, were presented to them, based on their business pitch and the presentations of the business plan. The criterion for the winners was also favoured by support which was previously provided by the school’s incubator.
The incubator acts as a platform for talented students to launch their business ideas into more structured forms and transform into entrepreneurs. The scheme allows them to use schools facilities, the expertise of the staff and access to workshops and conferences, after they graduate and are accepted based on the eligibility criteria.
With this award the students would be provided with a year’s placement in this school’s incubator programme, along with other benefits such as; funding for the start-up, access to training programmes and workshops, networking events with angel members, brand consulting from a top branding consultancy firm, expert advice and mentoring from leading academics/experts of both Deloitte and London Business School.
This year’s winners covered various fields such as medicine and health, fashion, sport and social entrepreneurship. They are as following:
Neurologic Medical Solutions: designing medical devices in neurobiology. Commercialising the devices would give access to surgeons and relevant medical staff during operations.
PlayEnable: online service for sports enthusiasts to get access to facilities such as gyms and classes within their locality.
Shivspix.com:
Skin analytics: it allows people to monitor any changes in skin, such as moles for cases of melanoma through the use mobile devices. They can take pictures over time to see any changes that are taking place in their moles. The software analyses the pictures and reports back on any changes are detected.
Travelst: a platform that links travel content online. A global travel list management space, which can aid travel publishers and businesses with organising their travel lists.
LocalPay: it’s a payment method by which online shoppers can shop online and pay in cash at local branches of the store, using reference numbers generated by LocalPay.
Chanta London: it’s an entrepreneurial effort to design practical, stylish, good quality and affordable handbags for the working woman. It would be initiative to help young designers to kick start their businesses and way of helping to rebuild the economy.
