Bettany Centre for Entrepreneurship
VentureDay: Innovate to Elevate
Sara Gavin, Marketing Manager at the Bettany Centre for Entrepreneurship, Cranfield School of Management, reflects on last week’s entrepreneurship conference, VentureDay. Having recently joined Cranfield University, this was my first VentureDay event. Colleagues had told ...
Cranfield-Colworth Innovation Challenge: Greenwave’s Journey
With this year’s theme of the Cranfield-Colworth Innovation Challenge focused on “Innovation to tackle climate change, reduce waste, and support the transition to net zero”, students were challenged with the task of developing a ...
From Angels and VCs to VCIC
Martin Spiller, Senior Lecturer in Entrepreneurship at Cranfield School of Management reflects on attending the Bettany Centre Speaker Series and being part of the North Europe Regional Finals of the Venture Capital Investment Competition (VCIC) ...
What a Mango Scientist Learned from Anthropy 23
Anthropy 23 and the ‘Emerging Leader’ title As a researcher, a setting like Anthropy was quite foreign to me. The conferences I have attended before were scientific/academic gatherings, where people presented data they had gathered ...
Breaking New Ground: Organising Cranfield’s first Hult Prize OnCampus Programme
The Hult Prize is a year-long global competition challenging young people to solve the world’s most pressing issues by creating innovative social ventures. This year, the challenge was to create a for-profit social venture in ...
The entrepreneurial mindset: Wild over-optimism and self-delusion
At Cranfield’s entrepreneurship speaker series, a group of students, alumni, local business owners and staff gathered on campus to hear from a Cranfield MBA alumni, former Dragon and Moonpig multi-millionaire founder, Nick Jenkins. Over the ...