About us

Vision

The Edinburgh Entrepreneurship Club (the E-Club for short) was founded in 2005 to harness and enable the deep pool of entrepreneurial talents that exist among MBA students and MBA alumni of the University of Edinburgh Business School (UEBS).

The E-Club is focused on promoting entrepreneurial activity among MBA students, alumni, researchers and others from the University of Edinburgh and wider Scottish and UK communities who are starting, working for, or advising new venture creation and promoting innovation and entrepreneurial activity. In order to accomplish this, we have established the following objectives:

• Promote and facilitate the study and practice of entrepreneurship within the UEBS and the University of Edinburgh;
• Develop entrepreneurial knowledge and skills for creating new ventures among MBA and other postgraduate students;
• Facilitate the development of UEBS MBA graduates as motivated, ethical, and dynamic entrepreneurs;
• Stimulate a dynamic entrepreneurial network of linkages within the UEBS and among school of the University of Edinburgh that offers a supportive forum for exploring new business ideas and opportunities;
• Provide mechanisms to connect MBA and other postgraduate students with UEBS alumni, knowledge creators and entrepreneurs and supportive agents in Edinburgh and Lothians and the wider community;
• Develop an on-line resource and career-search infrastructure for providing access to information to start a new business and job opportunities in new businesses

The E-Club aims to provide information, knowledge and networking opportunities related to entrepreneurship and support entrepreneurs through all steps of the Entrepreneurial Process:

• Idea Generation
• Market Research
• Business Planning
• Financing
• Staffing and Implementation

E-Club leadership opportunities exist for full-time, part-time and international MBA students.

E-Club activities

The Club promotes its vision through its activities, its online information resource and its online discussion board and member profile facility which promote member interaction.

• A range of activities
• from keynote speaker events, including the Silicon valley speaker series co-hosted with the School of Informatics, to informal workshops
• Information about
• starting a company
• the university's own entrepreneurship bodies
• entrepreneurial funding links
• the club's own business plan competition
• entrepreneurial activities organised by other bodies
• An online resource that provides you with
• A discussion board facility that gives you the opportunity to post business ideas online, such as ideas for products or services, and discuss them with like minded individuals
• The facility to post a profile of yourself in order to let other members know about your interests, experience and areas of expertise

Sponsorship

The E-Club would not be possible without the generous contribution of our distinguished sponsors, who have dedicated valuable funds, resources, personnel and time to ensure its success:

For more information on sponsorship opportunities please contact Aidan Hetherington aidan.hetherington@ed.ac.uk