Case studies archive
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Alex Gore Browne
Successful fashion designer, Alex Gore Browne, runs her own business, designing stunning and original knitwear pieces.
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Camila Prada
Ceramics designer, Camila Prada's new collection 'Pepe and Friends' is an endearing family of character-figurines. Quirky and highly individual, Camila's Flatfaces figurines are unlike any other ceramic figurines available today.
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Mark Champkins
After studying product design at the Royal College of Art, Mark Champkins went on to develop a range of products that would help children to concentrate during lessons.
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Dr Denis O'Hora
Denis O'Hora says: "As an experimental psychologist, my work is lab-based so Crucible was an opportunity to meet other people in research roles to see how they were dealing with similar issues."
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Digital Projectz Limited
Charles Adakwa-Yiadom of Digital Projectz Limited is using technology to support emerging and unsigned music talent.
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Dynamo Games
Dynamo Games has created Mobi-Medic, a first aid guide which can be downloaded onto mobile phones, ensuring potentially life-saving information is always at hand.
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Flipside
Flipside is a glossy magazine targeted at young teens aged 11-15, to show them the exciting and glamorous side of science, engineering and technology.
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Gavin Douglas
Gavin Douglas is a young fashion designer, whose collections are aimed at those who wish to express their individuality through clothing.
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Gemma Satterthwaite
Gemma Satterthwaite works in Bioinformatics, combining computing and biology to try to speed up the discovery of new medicines.
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Gopal Dutta
Filmmakers Gopal Dutta and Nav Kandola are developing youth-orientated programmes for their broadband TV channel, Boda Loka TV.
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Hannah Martin
Designer Hannah Martin has launched a luxury jewellery and accessories brand for men.
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Hannes Koch
Creative Pioneers Hannes Koch and Florian Ortkrass are using innovative product design to generate brand new uses for existing technologies.
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Jane Ni Dhulchaointigh
Designer Jane Ni Dhulchaointigh has invented Formerol™ - a colourful and malleable range of materials that are set to pioneer the concept of mass-customisation in functional products.
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Ambaba
Ambaba is an innovative, one-size-fits-all nappy that is eco-friendly, functional and challenges customer perceptions of re-usable nappies with a contemporary design aesthetic.
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Big Ideas ICT Youth Challenge
The Big Ideas ICT Youth Challenge invites teams of young people to come up with ideas for new information and communication technologies, or new ways of using existing technology.
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Brazen Studios
Jewellery designer Sarah Raffel is giving young talent the chance to establish careers in the jewellery design industry.
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BrightSpark
The project also included a computer simulation game, My Chemist, to inspire more girls to set up their own businesses.
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Bolton TIC
Bolton TIC is the UK's first 'junior incubator', established to create an environment that nurtures innovation and enterprise in young people.
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DreamLab Learning
Dreamlab Learning addresses the need to re-engage and motivate young people aged 11 to 14 by focusing on developing creative, digital skills, with support from industry professionals.
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Enterprise Gateway
Enterprise Gateway gives young offenders the chance to re-think their life choices, get involved in personal development workshops and develop their enterprise skills through social enterprise initiatives.
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Ewgeco
Ewgeco is a self-installable Real Time Visual Display Unit that shows you exactly how much electricity, water and gas you're using at any given time.
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HotShots Entrepreneur Academy
Hotshots Entrepreneurs Academy aims to give young people the tools to become the next generation of entrepreneurs.
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HTI
Heads, Teachers and Industry Ltd is offering business leadership and skills training to teachers and young people, with the aim of making school leavers more employable
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Humanotopia
Humanutopia will run workshops and activities to develop young people's commercial enterprise skills. The workshops will explore the behaviour and attitudes need to develop leadership skills.
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LikeCube
LikeCube is a recommendation system for leisure, which ensures users find relevant suggestions, as rated by like-minded people they can trust.
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RRELL Products
Artist Stephen Hurrel and scientist Bob Farrell are developing an environmentally-friendly light source.
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SafeHinge
Each year 30,000 children damage their fingers in doors but this innovative design for a door hinge could put a stop to such accidents. SafeHinge leaves no gap between the door and door frame, meaning that fingers can't be trapped.
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Social Entrepreneurship in Schools
Cantilever Partnership is encouraging a new generation of entrepreneurs by giving schools the skills to embed enterprise in the curriculum.
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Scott Garcia
Furniture designer, Scott Garcia, admits he has a unique and somewhat unusual approach to designing furniture, taking his inspiration from consumer behaviour, accidents and imperfection.
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Tag Games
Tag Games is an independent studio launched to develop games software specifically for mobile phones.
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Vetpulse.tv
Vetpulse.tv is a video podcast, featuring the latest advances and innovations in veterinary science.