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Karen has worked for the SETsquared Partnership in senior management for twenty years. She led the team that developed the World’s number one University Incubation Programme which has provided support to over 5,000 early-stage technology companies which have raised over £2.75bn in investment. Karen has developed the SETsquared enterprise brand for the Universities of Bath, Bristol, Cardiff, Exeter, Southampton, and Surrey which has provided over £8.6bn of economic impact to the UK economy.
Karen has developed numerous experiential training programmes to allow participants to develop entrepreneurial thinking and form credible business propositions from the seeds of an idea in a range of sectors. She has been involved in start-up weekends, appathons, pitching competitions and researcher to innovator programmes and developed programmes for the UK Space Agency, Royal Academy of Engineering, Academic Health Science Network and InnovateUK. Karen has sat on the judging panel for many business pitch competitions in the UK and overseas and seen thousands of companies pitch for investment. Currently Karen is championing ESG/Impact understanding within SETsquared’s academic and SME community and female researchers as innovators and founders.
Karen has also worked for Motorola and Compass Group in strategic communications and project management roles. She has over 30 years of marketing, communications and PR experience in a range of industries including IT, Telecoms and FMCG. Karen holds a degree in Computer Science, foundation in Psychotherapy and is PRINCE2 qualified.
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(The imec team celebrate their World's Top Accelerator ranking) Huge congratulations go to Belgium-based incubator imec, a world-leading research and...
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Funded by Innovate UK, SETsquared along with partners NXNW and Midlands has been running the Innovation to Commercialisation of University...
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A pioneering programme to up skill Early Career Researchers (ECR) so they can support their peers to make real world...
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David Speight, Managing Director of Scaled Ltd, highlights his main takeaways from SETsquared’s online Innovation Workout. Scaled Ltd provides large...
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Hive is one of Cervus Defence's solutions to help militaries all over the world make better use of the vast...
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Year of overwhelming challenge and accomplishment sees two winners presented with the SETsquared Achievement Award. Securing unprecedented investment and opportunities...
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Enactus team - Kat and the University's Enactus Society who took part in hackathons with local charities in 2020 The...
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The University of Bristol’s Basecamp Enterprise Team’s ability to change tack and throw a digital competition to launch new student...
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(Image above shows Dr Alexander Lunt and colleagues in the lab at the University of Bath) The SETsquared 2021 awards took...
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Next dates: 9, 10 & 13 May 2022 (half days, online) The prospect of launching and running a start-up can...
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Innovation Workouts & Entrepreneurs Workouts: dates throughout 2020 & 2021 Times are changing. The world looks very different now to...
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The world has changed, perhaps forever; the impact of the global pandemic sent ripples through every sector. But that disruption...
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