Competitions

Session 2006-7

The 'Big Business Idea' Competition 2006/7

Your Business Idea can win you an I-pod Nano and £10,000

Fill in the Beer mats or bookmarks available in the student centre and library and pop it into the gold boxes around the University Campus to win the Ipod

For a chance to win the £10,000 click here to fill in the Full “Big Idea Competition” entry form

For help with generating business ideas please come along to our workshop in Embreonix detailed below ……

Workshop – Generating your Business Idea

Hosted by: Scottish Enterprise – This is an interactive workshop designed to help you come up with an idea to enter into the “Big Business Idea Competition”, or just to develop an existing idea you already have.

Date: Thursday 9th Nov
Time: 6pm (18.00hrs)
Venue: Embreonix – within the University, go past the ATM and through the double doors.

*Win up to £10,000 by entering your ideas in the Big Idea Competition.*

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Competitions

Session 2005-6

The SIE Case Analysis Competition 2006 - WIN £2000

What, Where & When

The second SIE Case Analysis Competition will be held in Edinburgh on the weekend of the 31st March - 2nd April 2006.

Who

Teams made up of four undergraduate students and a coach (optional), will present their business solutions to a panel of entrepreneurs. The winning team will recieve £2000, with additional prizes for runners-up.

Why

By competing you will:

• enhance your ability to analyse business problems & opportunities
• think more entrepreneurly
• get the chance use your skills to tackle issues facing businesses in the real world and to present your solution to the judges
• build your presentation skills
• and not least - enhance your cv

• Please click here to Download the handbook
• Please click here to View more information and resources..

For more information Contact:

• Your SIE intern Greg Sim, by email: events@aspiresociety.co.uk. Phone: 01382 308528, or drop by Unit 4 in the Embreonix facility, past the ATM near the main reception.
• Blair Winsor - b.windsor@napier.ac.uk - 0131 455 4351 or
• Lesley Moncrieff - l.moncrieff@sie.ac.uk - 0131 455 6812

Oxford University - Business Plan Competition - 2006

Your entries are invited for the Oxford University Business Plan Competition 2006, the biggest of its kind in the UK. The competition, now in its 9th year has become a launch pad for participating entrants to successfully raise investment for their commercial ventures.

Ideas should be original, or a significant improvement on an existing business and must have received no more than £250,000 of funding so far.

This year the competition has a top prize of £20,000 for the winning business plan, plus various other prizes including awards for runners-up and for the best "elevator pitch".

We welcome entries from anyone - individuals, teams, new companies, existing companies creating spin-offs, scientists, students and entrepreneurs - with a good, innovative idea for a science, technology, medical or design-based business.

For those who are new to business and creating a business idea, you can learn a lot by participating in the Business Plan Competition. There is high-level feedback on all business ideas submitted and the chance to learn more about the processes of business. The competition is a highly-prestigious platform for successful new venture creation, providing access to networks, training and valuable contacts, and it furthers participants' understanding of the investment process and what constitutes a realistic marketable idea.

Entries are welcome any time up to the deadline for submissions, 5pm on 19 May 2006 . The finalists will be announced in June, with the final itself tasking place at Venturefest.

So if you are interested in entering the competition, please register your interest online at our website: Oxford University Business Plan Competition - Click here!!!

For more information, Please contact:

Christopher Venditozzi

Programme Manager

University of Oxford Science Enterprise Centre

Saïd Business School

Park End Street

Oxford

OX1 1HP

UK

T. +44 (0)1865 288827

F. +44 (0)1865 288805

E. christopher.venditozzi@sbs.ox.ac.uk

The 'Big Business Idea' Competition 2005/6 

The 'Big Business Idea' Competition prizegiving will be at The Tasting Rooms (No.5, South Ward Road, Dundee) on Monday the 27th of March from 6-8pm. £1000 worth of cash prizes will be awarded on the evening, and students will have the opportunity to hear from last year's successfull Waracle team! Click here for more info...!

Congratulations to student Anu Kolari - for winning the I-Pod nano!

For full details, please click on the lightbulb below. 

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Get the bug! - with Ideas Factory Scotland

The great thing about viral emails is that they're better than work. Everyone loves an entertaining viral but have you ever thought of a viral idea that would get the whole world talking? We're on the hunt for the viral stars of tomorrow, and looking to create opportunities for the best emerging creative talent. The competition is free and open to everyone - the general public and UK digital creative agencies alike - and there are some fantastic prizes up for grabs. More...

The £5 millionaire!

Congratulations to James Mathew who won the £5 for being the first person to answer the question:  "If I give you £1 today, and double the value I continue giving you every day (eg £2, £4, £8, £16 and so on..), how many days would it take before you have £1 MILLION !?" - Clue: Less that 1 month!

The answer was 21 days!

YOMP Scotland

Our Abertay team performed brilliantly in the 'YOMP' Scotland finals at St.Andrews University. For more information on the enterprise strategy game, please click on the Yomp box below.

Session 2004-5

The 'Big Business Idea' Competition 2004/5

The awards ceremony was held on 17th March 2005 in London Nightclub in Dundee.  The prizes were awarded as follows:

 1st prize winner Scott Hopkins with SIE Intern Greg Sim

The SIE National Business Plan Competition 2004/5

Selected applicants were entered into the SIE National Business Plan Competition which had a prize fund of over £60,000!

  Abertay's Waracle team receiving their prize at the SIE National Conference in 2004.

Session 2003-4

The 'Big Business Idea' Competition 2003/4

The winners of this competition were: