Unlocking commercial potential
The Leaders in Innovation Fellowships (LIF) Global programme supported ambitious innovators and engineering founders from emerging and developing economies to accelerate the commercialisation of their innovations.
Through tailored entrepreneurship training, mentoring and access to global networks, LIF Global equipped innovators with the skills, knowledge and connections needed to develop their ventures, strengthen their business models and bring impactful engineering solutions closer to market.
The programme was enabled through funding from the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology.
Celebrating innovators that helped to make to improve the world around them
Our founders continue to drive positive change through engineering innovation, scaling solutions that generate social, environmental and economic impact in their communities and the wider world.
The programme’s legacy lives on through the achievements of its innovators, the ventures they have built and the global connections formed through the LIF Community.
LIF Global provided innovators with:
- Seven month fully-funded support
- Training and mentoring from world-leading experts
- Events in your home country, as well as the UK
- Access to our 1,500+ strong alumni network upon graduation, providing continuous learning and peer support
As with our UK-focused entrepreneurship programmes, it take no fee, equity or IP from the entrepreneurs that we worked with.
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Hear from a LIF Global Innovator
Video transcript
The LIF Global programme: an overview
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their countries' social and economic development.]
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We've received some fantastic training in business development, in identifying what your customers are and how you get your Innovation to Market. My Innovation is about helping other innovators so they can develop their physical products and processes faster and cheaper because we use multiphysics virtual simulation to test and optimise these designs we are mainly focused on the Sustainable Development Goals. My Innovation is BOD. BOD stands for the best operation for decolourisation. We get grease, chemical dyes and all contaminants in textile wastewater. We return clean water to the nature. To increase productivity of edible bird nest farming we use IoT technology to mimic the natural habitat of the birds so they can reproduce a much more comfortable. The training sessions in how we should go about to do our value proposition, to learn how the investors think has been very very interesting and very beneficial. The business simulation that was one of the greatest learning experiences. The mentoring session is what is the best part of LIF for me because my mentors always give me a sound advice. This is amazing experience that I think all entrepreneurships who aim to the sustainable development goals should live. I recommend for my colleagues and everyone I met I said please next year please join the program this very good program [Music].
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