Competitions

Business Plan Competition

Now known as The Discovery Challenge, full details are available here.

The E-Gym Wright Cottrell Dental Essay Prize

The Enterprise Gym in association with Wright Cottrell have this year launched a competition to find the best short essay from a Dental or Oral Health Sciences student at the University of Dundee. Dental students have a history of success at The Enterprise Gym, and one of our past prize-winners, also a Dental student in his time but now forging his way in private practice has drawn up four questions for this years competition.

The competition looks for clear concise answers, which show an understanding both of the profession and of the wider business world in which the profession operates. Entries must be submitted by E-mail by the XXXX 200X to enterprise-gym@dundee.ac.uk.

For more than 100 years, Wright Dental and Cottrell&Company have been providing their customers with the finest in world-class products and services. In 1999 they merged creating the only UK company that can supply you equipment, surgery or laboratory items. They now have more showrooms than any other company in the UK. Their main distribution centre is in Dundee, stocking over 40,000 items.

The Enterprise Gym Lions' Den Cup

Presented each semester the Royal Bank of Scotland Cup goes to the winning team at the Lions' Den for 1 week. The Lions' Den is the culmination of the Discovery Challenege when business teams make their "pitch" to a panel of local business executives. The Cup goes to the evening’s best team presentation/performance in the Den. The names of the members of the winning team are inscribed on the Cup.

The Ross&Bonnyman Enterprise and Engineering Competition

A team prize of £120 has been sponsored for the best Business Plan submitted by any business team comprising at least 1 engineering and physical sciences student.

Thorntons Law Prize

This prize of £150 is awarded to the Business Advisory Law Team that is deemed to have best advised their nominated Business Team during the entire Business Plan Competition. This is judged through a 1 page A4 report and team presentation to a panel of legal and business experts in a Lions' Den type environment. Business Advisory Law Teams are expected to offer advice on matters ranging from best legal format for business, intellectual property rights, environmental legislation and employment law amongst others.