In my search for case studies for this site I attended the recent Festival of Innovation at the NEC in Birmingham. Amongst the usual university displays were many students who had taken part in the SPEED entrepreneurship programme. Specific to the West Midlands this offers students advice and financial support to set themselves up as businesses. They do this either in their final year or the year after graduation.

“SPEED offers students from any course, from glass design to mechanical engineering, or dance to business administration the opportunity to develop their business ideas whilst at University”

Over the next few weeks I’ll be profiling some of the students I met but in the meantime, if you’re in the West Midlands, you may want to get in touch with the programme to see if you can benefit:

Tel: 01902 518960
Fax: 01902 323957
Email: innovation@wbs.wlv.ac.uk