CSAD Graduate Incubation presentation

Graduate Incubation StudioCardiff School of Art & Design

What is Graduate Incubation @ CSAD ?

It’s a ‘Business Start-up Space’

Another name for ‘Your Business’ Q Your Practice

So….itsQ Your Business Practice Space

Where ?A Place where you can develop and test

your Business plan and successfully launch your Your Practice !

A safe place to take risks and buildYour Practice !

Access to Personal start up studio space for 12 months

September 2014 – September 2015

How ?Via competitive application to CSAD

Who is it for ?

Applicants must be CSAD graduates, either Undergrads, Postgrads, or

Researchers.

Applicants must be UK/EU nationals without visa restrictions

Applicants must already have a business idea that they want

to develop further.

What’s it Cost ?

£1000

What else do I get for this ?

What you get ?

1 Dedicated, secure studio space

2 Part of a ‘community’ of Practitioners

3 Part of a community of like minded people

4 Access to CSAD resources, facilities, and expertise

5 Internal academic mentors, and external practitioner mentors matched to grads’

6 Purchase of materials through the CSAD at cost

What you get ?

7 Access to University Business mentors, & production of fully formed operational business

plan8 Access to CSAD Research seminars

9 Access to University Professorial lectures

10 Access to your own Incubation Hot desk

11 Business Start-up launch event supported by CSAD at the end of the 12 months

The application Process

Three routes into the Graduate Incubation Studio

One:2014-15 3rd years UG Dissertation Business Plan

option

Two:2015 Summer Boot Camp

Three:2014 Short Application Form

Questions ?