King’s College launches ‘Entrepreneurship Lab’

The King’s Entrepreneurship Lab will support students with a future interest ‘in innovation, entrepreneurship, and business’

The project will be open to undergraduate and graduate students at King’sLUCAS MADDALENA

by Flora Bowen

This article is 5 years old

Friday June 25 2021, 10:32am

King’s College has used a “generous donation” to establish an Entrepreneurship Lab which will help students learn entrepreneurial skills, with an emphasis on developing sustainable and ethical projects with a positive social and environmental impact. King’s students can apply to take part in the initiative.

The lab directors will be Kamiar Mohaddes, University Senior Lecturer in Economics and Policy, and Thomas Roulet, Deputy Director of the Cambridge MBA course.

We're excited to announce that, thanks to a generous donation, @Kings_College has established The King’s Entrepreneurship Lab to equip students with #entrepreneurial skills and support those wishing to explore a career path in #innovation, #entrepreneurship and #business. 1/3
- King’s Entrepreneurship Lab (@KingsELab) June 16, 2021

The College’s website states that the year-long programme is designed to “develop the crucial skills of creativity, pragmatism, communication, and coordination”. This will include a week-long residential training programme, a week-long lecture series, seminars taking place before Michaelmas Term in 2021, a monthly webinar series, and visiting mentors.

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In Lent Term, participating students will be able to present their project to the Advisory Board to be considered for seed funding.

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