Aurora Bio: Adithya Hegde (MBA Student) and team (including current Undergraduate Business and Postgraduate Biomedical Engineering students)
Strathclyde's biennial Enterprise Challenge aims to find, support and celebrate pre-start and early-stage entrepreneurs. It also aims to develop and test the transferable enterprise skills of participating Strathclyde University students, through four separate stages. The Challenge is open to all students from the University of Strathclyde and provides a great platform for budding entrepreneurs.
A number of our current MBA students were involved with a number of teams and one MBA group was the overall winner. You can read more about the challenge here.
Overall Winner of the Strathclyde Enterprise Challenge:
Aurora Bio: Adithya Hegde (MBA Student) and team (including current Undergraduate Business and Postgraduate Biomedical Engineering students)
Aurora Bio have developed a diagnostic tool, called DARVEL for the rapid detection of the MRSA superbug (within 2 hours). The tool is disposable, portable, accurate, cost effective and easy to use. Their prize was £1000 in cash and an opportunity for consumer research to be conducted on their behalf conducted by Marketest.
Other winners were:
Winner of the best overall 60 second video pitch & Runner Up: Studio 2080
Studio 2080 had created a variety of Sustainable Development solutions specific to the African Economy. The team included MBA students Toh Chew Hui and Paul Dimerin.
Winner of the Best Interview: MiShore
MiShore was not a finalist of the Enterprise Challenge but had extremely good feedback and marks from the interview stage. The business related to the Health category and the team included MBA student Bhavesh Goel and Iain Morrison.
Students from the business school, both masters and undergraduate level, were also involved in the Smart Bike and Techlife pitches.