Two students from Kent Business School (KBS) were awarded \u00a3500 towards their ideas after the judges felt compelled to provide funding to their projects.\u00a0These awards went to Vasu Sarin for his business Tab Care Limited, which uses wearable technology to allow care homes to remotely monitor elderly people\u2019s health, and Anton Carter for his app Phonic that scans text and reads it aloud to aid learning.<\/p>\n
In total eight students took part in the final, marking the culmination of the nine-month Business Start-Up Journey programme which began in November 2016 and is run by the KBS\u2019s Accelerator Space for Innovation and Responsible Enterprise (ASPIRE)<\/a>.<\/p>\n Around 100 students entered the Business Start-Up Journey, each meeting with ASPIRE entrepreneur-in-residence Adam Smith to discuss their\u00a0business ideas. Students attended a series of workshops exploring and explaining various areas of essential business knowledge such as sources of finance, marketing, and intellectual property rights. Eighty ideas were submitted for consideration and forty were chosen for progression. These students were then invited on a two-day business \u2018bootcamp\u2019 where they collaborated, pitched to each other and took part in team-building to further hone their ideas.<\/p>\n From these final ideas, the eight pitchers and three video submissions were selected for the final event where they presented their ideas to a panel of judges:<\/p>\n The Business Start-Up Journey will also send\u00a0two students to the European Innovation Academy \u2013 a three-week tech start-up festival which takes place around the world.<\/p>\n Congratulations to all the students from all at Kent Business School.<\/p>\n![\"bsuj-certs\"](\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/files\/2017\/06\/bsuj-certs.jpg\")
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