Lean Launch Programme
Leading online pre-accelerator helping teams validate their business ideas
Secure your place in our next cohort. Apply by 30th October
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A community of innovators, entrepreneurs and investors commercialising university research.
North by North West is a consortium of seven Universities and one specialist programme delivery partner in the Northern United Kingdom. The consortium is led by The Queen's University of Belfast and supported by funding from Innovate UK.
We deliver customer discovery programmes for early-stage University-based inventors in any University but with a regional emphasis covering North of England, Scotland and North of Ireland.
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Our mission
Find smart ideas, Build powerful relationships, Create successful ventures
Our programmes
Lean Launch Programme
Lean Launch is a game-changing 10-week online customer discovery programme that allows you to rapidly test whether there is a market for your idea, product or service from the comfort of your workplace/home.
ICURe
The ICURe (Innovation-to-Commercialisation of University Research) is a 4-month full-time online pre-accelerator programme that provides up to £30,000 for researchers to validate their commercially-promising ideas in the marketplace.
Applications are open across our programmes
Are you interested in investing?
Our teams are actively seeking investment.