All-Innovate
Do you want to learn how to generate and work on a potential business idea? Sign up to All-Innovate to explore and work on the seed of an idea, with the chance to win funding.
Programme overview
All-Innovate is the University of Oxford's idea competition aiming to encourage students and staff at the University of Oxford to develop an entrepreneurial skill set and generate entrepreneurial ideas, regardless of discipline, level of study or entrepreneurial experience.
Submit any idea to gain the knowledge, support and skills needed to expand your entrepreneurial mindset and take the first steps into entrepreneurship. No idea? No problem! Sign up to find a list of ideas ready to choose from. The purpose of All-Innovate is to encourage anyone who wants to gain an insight into the world of entrepreneurship - your idea doesn't have to be perfect or fully formed.
Once you have signed up, you will be given access to Validate - a startup ideas platform that allows you to ideate, plan, test and share entrepreneurial and innovative ideas. As part of All-Innovate, we're running four optional training sessions during Hilary term 2024, through which you will gain the skills to create a Business Model Canvas (BMC) while building an entrepreneurial network.
For those who would like to explore their idea further, there is also the option to apply for £500 funding once your BMC has been created. Find all of the information on how to sign up, how to apply for funding and all of the key dates below.
Who Can Apply?
All undergraduates, postgraduates, DPhils and research staff from any department of the University of Oxford are invited to sign up to the competition with an entrepreneurial idea or choose one of ours to get you started.
Applications for All-Innovate are opening on October 17th 2024!
More Information
More information coming soon.
Applications for All-Innovate are opening on October 17th 2024!
More information coming soon.
The £500 funding awarded to the BMC submission winners is for the teams to spend on exploring and developing their idea further. Winners of these awards will be announced during the All-Innovate Showcase and Celebration, and will be expected to provide a short report at the end of Hilary Term.
Whether you have just thought about an innovative solution to an everyday problem and think you might have found a niche, or you have no idea at all yet - All-Innovate is for you! If you want to take part but don't have an idea just yet, no problem - you can choose one of ours! Just start the application process and you'll find a list of ideas ready and waiting to be developed.
For those who decide to submit their final Business Model Canvas for a chance to win £500 funding, entrants will be judged on the idea itself as opposed to how developed the idea is.
Whilst the primary audience for the competition is full time students and University of Oxford staff, visiting students are eligible to enter, as long as they are in Oxford for the full academic year.
All entrants will be invited to attend four specialist workshops designed to enhance and further your ideas.
These workshops will provide you with practical tools and frameworks to help guide you in the development of your idea. Through interactive group sessions, working with peers from across the University, you will enhance your skills in creativity, complex problem solving and collaborating with others, all of which have been identified by The World Economic Forum as essential skills to thrive in the new world of work.
These workshops are open to all entrants and are a fantastic chance to build your CV, meet new people and learn from our leading experts and facilitators.
Business Model Canvas resources:
To prepare a sound business model canvas and for other entrepreneurial skills support we highly recommend you spend some time on these free resources:
Top Tip - Try to keep your business model canvas simple, relevant, and intuitively understandable, while not oversimplifying the complexities of how your enterprise functions. (Osterwalder, 2010).
Validate resources:
For participants applying for funding:
- Budget proposal template (Please click 'File' and 'Save As' to download a copy of the template)
EnSpire will not take any equity or claim any ownership in ideas or intellectual property (IP) created by teams or individuals through their participation in the All-Innovate Competition.
However, if University research is involved or your ideas have been developed using other University resources or facilities, there may well be formal legal obligations between the University and its staff or the sponsor(s) of the research that you might not be aware of as a student entrepreneur.
For more general questions about the All-Innovate competition, please email enspire@admin.ox.ac.uk
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