London Design Festival Innovation Hothouse Final

23 September 2011

Join us on Friday 23 September for the innovation event of this year's London Design Festival - the final of Innovation Hothouse 2011, when seven teams of student engineers from around the UK will present their projects to a panel of four venture capitalists and business angels in the hope of winning funding to commercialise their ideas.

Innovation Hothouse is a competition which showcases the very best design projects of final year students on engineering, materials and product design degree schemes. It is also aimed at helping to foster the commercialisation of the students' work.

Our seven finalists are now busy adding the finishing touches to their pitches which they will be presenting to the Judging Panel. At stake is both the possibility of securing funding to commercialise their projects and take them through to market, in addition to hands-on advice and guidance from a highly influential business mentor.

Chosen from a series of events held around the country in June, the seven finalists represent the very best final year design projects submitted at the end of the last academic year by engineering and design students.

The Innovation Hothouse final will take place on Friday 23 September at the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, 1 Carlton House Terrace, London W1. It is a public event, free of charge, and tickets are available in advance from ian.bowbrick@raeng.org.uk

The Innovation Hothouse is supported by a partnership of The Royal Academy of Engineering, the Institution of Engineering Designers, the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, and the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.