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Technology Entrepreneurship Bootcamps

Annual Technology Entrepreneurship Bootcamp (TEB) at University of Exeter

Technology Entrepreneurship Bootcamp - for PhDs & ECRs: 7–11 December 2026

Our flagship Technology Entrepreneurship Bootcamp (TEB), exclusively for postgraduate students, PhD candidates, and Early Career Researchers features content aimed at Postgraduate level and higher, bespoke IP guidance, and career-focused mentoring for innovators.

Learning Outcomes: What You Will Gain

This bootcamp equips PhD researchers and early career academics (ECRs) with the skills, mindset, and networks needed to translate research into real-world impact.

• Turn research into real-world solutions
  Learn proven frameworks to translate cutting-edge academic ideas into practical applications with clear market potential.
• Protect and maximise your intellectual property
  Understand how to safeguard university-generated IP and develop effective strategies for commercialisation and licensing.
• Think like an entrepreneur
  Shift from discovery-led research to a market-driven approach, focusing on solving meaningful, real-world problems.
• Navigate the journey to spin-out creation
  Gain confidence in the legal, structural, and governance aspects of building a university spin-out, including equity and ownership considerations.
• Strengthen your funding success
  Enhance your ability to secure grants and investment by integrating commercial validation and demonstrating market need.
• Understand your customers
  Develop the skills to identify, interpret, and respond to customer needs, ensuring your research aligns with real demand.
• Join a powerful, lifelong network
  Become part of a cohort of like-minded innovators. Building connections, collaborations, and peer mentorship that can last throughout your career.

Registrations now open, APPLY NOW Postgraduate & ECR Edition: Technology Entrepreneurship Bootcamp, 7–11 December 2026

PG & ECR TEB Programme price: £899 Online Store Ticket Purchase

A very limited number of bursary discounts may be available for eligible applicants

Problem led design | Market insights | Customer discovery

***TEB Undergraduate Bootcamp 7-11 June 2027 - Registration of Interest now open for TEB 2027 BOOTCAMP 7-11 JUNE 2027 

Form a team, develop a business idea & pitch in 5 days:

• International and interdisciplinary teams.
• Build successful customer focused business ideas.
• Learn from entrepreneurs & industry leaders.
• One-on-one mentoring sessions with mentors (UK and from Silicon Valley).
• Each start-up team will receive pitch training, and make final pitches to a panel of judges - the pitch is your assessment.

You will explore:

• Team development
• Entrepreneurial mind-set
• Idea development
• Brand strategy
• Startup fundamentals
• Questions investors want answered

Open to innovative applicants around the world, studying any discipline. This is a 5 day, fully in-person, intensive venture Bootcamp at Exeter's Streatham Campus, UK. It is encouraged for attendees to have a business startup idea in mind, but is not required.

Teams are formed on day 1.

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