• An information sheet on the Fund
• The Operating Procedures
• The Business Plan Guidelines
• Innovation Fund Advisor Support Report

The Discovery Challenge training workshop sessions complete an Enterprise and Entrepreneurship Marathon. With full attendance receive University Half-Blues! It is possible to achieve Blue, Half-Blue, Colour and Merit awards through our Enterprise Gym activities. See the Activities > Awards section of the website to find out how to get them. 

Niki, 25 Jan 10 

It’s the beginning of the semester and The Discovery Challenge is about to begin once again. If you have a good business idea and want to learn how to make something of it, or simply want to discover how businesses work, the Discovery Challenge is a series of workshops designed to do just that. With this great experience under your belt you should never be short of something to talk about at an interview with all the key skills you will pick up along the way. Not to mention the £1750 of prize money up for grabs this semester; £1000 for first place, £400 for second, third wins £200 and fourth £150.

Check out the Discovery Challenge section for more information or contact the Management Team at the.egym@gmail.com.  

First workshops start Tuesday 19th January and is repeated again on Thursday 21st January. Sign up to the event on the diary and/or come along and see if you could be in the team walking away with £1000 at the end of this semester. 

Nik, 18 Jan 10 

The first issue of YCF in the new decade appropriately enough includes many new names and new initiatives – companies receiving funding and investors making investments for the first time, a new fund being set up in the East of Scotland, a Glasgow company going to Greece for funding and incubation, angels making a loan instead of an equity investment for  the first time, a new worldwide business angel association.

Read the Young Company Finance Report


Niki, 18 Jan 10

At a ceremony on Thursday Night on the 18^th of November at The Enterprise Gym, 12 teams of students gathered to learn who were to be the winners of this semester’s Discovery Challenge run biannually by the University of Dundee.

The Challenge is aimed at students of all disciplines to discover more about themselves in terms of their capacity and ability to be enterprising and entrepreneurial. Students who take up the challenge embark on a programme of 7 sessions delivered by senior local business people which takes them from knowing little about business to producing a business plan based on their own business idea. The final stage is a "Lions’ Den" which Craig McKirgan, President of The Enter prise Gym, describes as "similar to a "Dragons’ Den" but with more passion from the judges and the pitchers!"

"The competition was really close this semester," commented James Murray, VP of The Enterprise Gym, "this shows the high quality of entries and t he standard of business skills that The Enterprise Gym’s Trainers and staff produce from our students. We’re always grateful for the Trainers’ time and commitment to us, especially as they do all this for free."

Learn to Smile provide seminars and dolls to help educate youngsters on the benefits of good oral hygiene and health diet. The Puppets which are available to buy too are hand made and contain REAL dentures, great for young ones to practice cleaning their teeth.

Nano-Power offer "Green" recharging solutions for mobile electronic devices, such as phones, and portable music players – although applications of the technology are unlimited because of the devices unique design and adaptability. They expect this to be the only application in the UK market.

3^rd came Urban Waves is an indoor surf area featuring artificial free standing waves; regardless of weather conditions the passionate surfer can always surf a perfect wave.

E-Contact product and sell small devices which can be used to transmit contact information wirelessly, from one device to another essentially standardising the wireless data transfer industry.

Fasttracks utilised the idea of "music on the go" with download stations dotted around the UK in public places with universal connectivity so the public can download multimedia directly to their phone as they go about their day.