Deep inside Imperial’s South Kensington campus, teams of current and former students are tapping away on laptops, running businesses and sharing ideas. There’s a company using sailboats to gather data to chart weather patterns, another providing AI-powered, low-cost tutoring, one with an innovative way to weigh chickens, and another dreaming up ways to hand over more power to retail investors.
This is the university’s enterprise lab, the crown jewel in an institution that prides itself on blending business with the sciences. It’s a major draw for students, with one in eight using the space to brainstorm their fledgling business ideas, attend workshops on entrepreneurial skills, network with other students and receive mentoring from experts and alumni. It’s so successful at what it does, it has an exceptional 79% survival rate for the startups it launches.
