Entrepreneurship
The University encourages students and staff to develop their social and commercial entrepreneurship abilities. In support of this, the University supports and sponsors a number of activities, including for example:
- a residential 'Enterprisers' programme
- a graduate internship programme with local companies
- an Enterprise Development Fund to enable staff to start new commercial activities
- entrepreneurial bursaries for Masters and Doctoral students
- a 'Startup' scheme to support students and graduates in developing their ideas into commercial opportunities
Start-ups
Graduates from Informatics have formed start-up companies, many based in the heart of Brighton, but some located in the Sussex Innovation Centre on campus. The SInC provides office space and facilities, and business development support tailored for new companies.
Spin-outs
Current members of academic staff in Informatics co-direct companies spun out from the University, including:
iLexIR specialises in text analytics, mining, classification, and search applications — it has recently developed automatic computer-based systems for assessment of student essays, extraction of information from mobile phone text messages, and anonymisation of medical record free text. These systems draw on know-how accumulated by natural language processing researchers in Informatics, and incorporate state-of-the-art technology for automatic language analysis that was co-developed in Informatics.