Press Releases
Crown Castle Awards MBA Students at Warwick Business School
WBS Students Win CIMA Management Accounting Prize
Body Shop Founder and Aston Villa's Financial Director to Inspire Warwick Students
The Body Shop founder Anita Roddick, and Aston Villa’s Financial Director Mark Ansell are to inspire University of Warwick’s students and staff to set up their own businesses at a special festival of enterprise at the University of Warwick on Thursday 20th of June in the University’s Ramphal building.
£5,000 Award for High Tech Mini Loudspeaker Company
Shibden Technologies Limited, a “spin out” company formed by University of Warwick researchers, founded by Professor Roger Green and Professor David Hutchins of the University of Warwick’s School of Engineering, has just been awarded the £5,000 second prize in the National UK Joint Research Council’s Business Plan competition.
Military Virtual Reality Technology to Become Corporate Team Training Tool
Two University of Warwick MBA graduates have formed a company that aims to take corporate staff training and team development far beyond outward bound courses and paint ball sessions. They have partnered up with a US company that makes virtual reality simulators for the US military, and they aim to retool that technology to produce a unique corporate team building experience.
New Companies Spring into Action
Connect Midlands, in association with the Enterprise Fellowship Scheme (efs); will be holding its first Springboard Event of the year on 18th June 2002 at the Centennial Centre, Birmingham. This key event calls upon technology-based early-stage spin-off companies and innovators, mainly from the Midlands universities, to showcase their ideas, concepts and proposals. Each company will deliver a ten-minute presentation to an invited audience of business angels, early-stage funders, experienced entrepreneurs and larger technology companies looking for partnerships or investments.