Enterprise: For businesses
We can support your business through access to expertise, innovation and funding.
Enterprise and entrepreneurship
We work with businesses, researchers, and students to enable new ideas, innovation, and growth.
Our enterprise community
We welcome and support innovative people and organisations who want to create the enterprises of the future.
Enterprise: For researchers
We can support you to apply your research to launch innovative new enterprises and partnerships.
Enterprise: For students
Enterprise Bath can help you achieve your entrepreneurial ambitions and support you on your enterprising journey whilst at university.
Our enterprise spaces
Our enterprise spaces provide the environments where enterprising minds can be nurtured and inspired.
University of Bath Innovation Centre
Offering work space, business acceleration, enterprise activities, and network access for high-growth companies and the entrepreneurs that create them.
Enterprise Lab
Our Enterprise Lab is an innovation space where researchers and students can meet and access support to develop their entrepreneurial ideas.
Engine Shed Members' Lounge
University of Bath staff, SETsquared Bath companies, and visitors can use the Engine Shed Members' Lounge, free of charge for meetings.
Our research centres and institutes
We have a range of multidisciplinary research centres and institutes which work in partnership with external organisations, including:
- Institute for Advanced Automotive Propulsion Systems (IAAPS)
- Institute for Digital Security and Behaviour
- Institute for Sustainability and Climate Change
- Institute for the Augmented Human
- Institute of Coding
- Innovation Centre for Applied Sustainable Technologies (iCAST)
- Centre for the Analysis of Motion, Entertainment Research and Applications (CAMERA)
More on our research centres and research institutes.
News
Our latest enterprise news.
University of Bath awarded multiple ICURe grants from Innovate UK for research commercialisation
Innovation to Commercialisation of University Research (ICURe) supports best new ideas from UK research for investment-ready spinouts and license agreements.
Accelerated Knowledge Transfer funding for short term collaborations with businesses
Accelerated Knowledge Transfer (AKT) funding from Innovate UK is open until 2 July. See successful examples of University of Bath AKTs from the last round.
Enterprise Day 2025 showcases University Entrepreneurs
Enterprise Day 2025 brought together the University of Bath’s entrepreneurial ecosystem to celebrate and develop our enterprise activities.
Strong SETsquared spin-out investment promises to drive regional economic growth
Spinouts from the SETsquared Partnership universities of Bath, Bristol, Cardiff, Exeter, Southampton and Surrey raised an impressive £273m investment in 2024.
Student startup makes University of Bath graduate a millionaire
Lux Rewards loyalty scheme acquired at an eight-figure valuation
University of Bath hosts AI and Machine Learning Showcase to foster collaboration and innovation
AI is transforming industries at an unprecedented pace and this showcase supported collaboration with industry which is key to unlocking its full potential.
Events
Our latest enterprise events.
First Thursday at SETsquared Bath Innovation Centre
4 Sep 2025 8.30am
SETsquared Bath Innovation Centre,
Bath
Each month we bring you three lightning talks on entrepreneurship, funding, new tech and how to grow a business.
Spin Out Club
18 Sep 2025 12.15pm
8W 2.30,
8 West
,
University of Bath
Come along to our meetup to learn more and meet likeminded fellow researchers.
Ignite+ Bitesize: Business Engagement
8 Oct 2025 12.30pm
Online
This short, interactive workshop will help you effectively showcase your research to promote collaboration and Knowledge Exchange.
Our AI expertise
Hear from academics at the University of Bath on their expertise in AI and Machine Learning and from industry partners on benefit of collaborating with us to help advance their capabilities in AI.