• Title:

• Forename:

• Surname:

• University of Dundee/work email address (Note: correspondence will be sent to this email address):

• Personal email address:

• University of Dundee school/department (currently work in or graduated from):

• Your mobile number:

• Is your idea a joint application? If so, name the fellow team members, email addresses, university/organisation and their roles in the proposed business:

• Eligibility/Permission: I can confirm that I have access to/ownership of all required intellectual property for the purposes of developing this business idea and I can confirm that I have gained appropriate permission(s) from my supervisor(s), principal investigator(s), Centre for Entrepreneurship and/or University of Dundee RIS, as appropriate, to enter the Competition (tick box to confirm).
  
  Please see the Venture Competition 2022 Terms & Conditions for more information.

• University of Dundee staff or recent graduate category applied for (can only apply for one category):

• Wildcard Award (for non-research staff) - £2,500 prize fund sponsored by James Keiller Investments and the Centre for Entrepreneurship
  

• Research Staff Award (University of Dundee research related ideas) - £11,500 prize fund sponsored by Research and Innovation Services, Organisational and Professional Development, School of Science and Engineering, School of Medicine and Centre for Entrepreneurship 

• Proposed business name:

• Title of innovation/business idea:

• (a) Non-confidential summary of your innovation/business idea (max. 100 words in laymen terms):

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• (b) What do you hope to achieve with this idea in the next 12 months? Do you think you will be in a position to take this idea forward as a business? (max. 200 Words):

• Your product or service (max. 450 words). Please describe your idea:
  
  -> What problem does it solve?
  -> Who are your competitors and why is your idea better?
  -> What stage of development is it at (idea, proof-of-concept, prototype, fully developed)?
  -> Do you have intellectual property protection?
  -> Any previous funding you have had
  -> Please provide a breakdown of how you would use Venture funding to further develop your idea
  -> Please include a URL to an artist's impression or image (if available) 

• Your target market (max. 250 words):
  
  -> What is your market?
  -> How will you get your product/service to market?
  -> How will your business make money?
  
  

• Benefits to the customers (max. 200 words):
  
  -> Who are your customers?
  -> Are they different from the end users?
  -> Have you spoken to your customers and/or end users?
  
  

• Requirements for development (Please tick all applicable - hold ctrl (PC) or command (Mac) to select more than one):

• Provide a summary of your business idea's social aims and objectives (max. 200 words):
  
  -> Detail the kinds of benefits you would plan to deliver to individuals, the communities and/or the environment.
  -> What would your organisation plan to do with any surplus profits it generates?
  
  

• Availability for Venture Final
  
  The Venture final will be on Friday 25 February 2022 between 4-6pm. It is also necessary to be available to pitch live to the expert judging panel on Wednesday 23 or Thursday 24 February.
  
  Please check the box to confirm you have made a note of this and that you (and/or your team) will be available to pitch live if selected as one of our finalists.
  
  

• How did you hear about Venture?

• Please confirm that you have read our Terms and conditions (Please tick):
  
  You will be informed by 6pm Friday 4 February 2022 if you have been selected for the Venture Final on Friday 25 February 2022.