The Ecosystem: Europe prepares to follow UK in sharing start-up incubation

06 Aug 2024 | News
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The UK’s  SETsquared partnership has lessons for EU universities preparing to create shared start-up incubators

By Ian Mundell

Photo credits: mindscanner / BigStock

An EU promise to support the formation of university incubators has come through, but institutions will have to share, setting up facilities through transnational Alliances for Innovation.

That raises the question of whether shared incubators can work. The record of SETsquared, which brings together six UK universities, suggests it can. Now in its 22nd year, SETsquared was recently ranked as the top UK start-up hub, and third best in Europe.

SETsquared was set…

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