University of Bristol Innovation Showcase

Join us for our 2025 Innovation Showcase!

This is your chance to meet the University of Bristol’s Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship final year students and find out about their final year projects: creative critical thinkers equipped with the talent and skills to bring about positive change through innovation and entrepreneurship.

Drop in to any part of the day to hear our speakers; see student entrepreneurs pitching for a share of £75k in funding; admire our student final year projects; and network with people from the business and start-up ecosystem.

This year, our graduating students have been working on projects exploring grass roots sports; recruitment practices for women in STEM; connecting urban teenagers with nature; designing services to support healthy aging; sustainability information on food packaging; supporting women with ADHD, and many others.

Alongside our students’ fantastic projects, we also welcome two inspiring speakers.

Speaker Topics

Professor Ezio Manzini, distinguished academic and author in the field of design for social innovation and sustainability, will be speaking on the subject of “The Scenario of Collaboration, Proximity and Care (in the Age of War, Walls and Hate)”. He will draw on more than three decades of experience of experiments in design for sustainable ways of living, and 15 years of transformative social innovations, showing that it is possible to think, make things happen, and build parts of the world in contrast to the dominant trends.

Following Professor Manzini, Mia Collins, entrepreneur and current contestant onThe Apprentice, will be sharing her experience of entrepreneurship during the Covid-19 pandemic to consider how innovation can still flourish during times of uncertainty.

Runway Awards live pitching competition

The day culminates in our exciting annual Runway Awards, where University of Bristol students pitch live for a share of a funding pot of £75,000. Previous Runway Award winners have gone on to raise 20 times the amount of their grants in further funding, creating jobs, winning national sustainability competitions and creating significant social and commercial impact