Supporting Startups

Turn your innovative idea to solve global challenges into impactful ventures by applying for our Innovation Accelerator programme with training, mentorship, co-working space, and funding.

Develop skills and begin your entrepreneurial journey with our range of training programmed aimed at helping aspiring innovators develop and implement their business ideas.

Get ready to take those first steps to running your own business or becoming self-employed. Boost your skills and know-how in enterprise and entrepreneurship.

Would you like to start or grow a business in Aberdeenshire and need some support? Library Innovation Network Aberdeenshire (LINA) gives you access to workspace and skills development programmes.

RGU Innovation have teamed up with Aberdeenshire Council’s Employment Support Team to develop a new programme for women with children who are interested in starting their own business or earning a living through self-employment.

Rewatch the final of RGU’s Innovation Accelerator as projects and businesses went head-to-head to win cash prizes voted for by a panel of judges and a live audience.

For our entrepreneurs we have created a network of creative working spaces where startups, mentors and clients can collaborate, access resources and be inspired to innovate.

For staff or researchers who develop an innovative idea we seek to support you to commercialise the idea and offer the opportunity spinout your inventions onto commercial businesses.

Look back on our previous Startup Accelerator programme which supported student, staff and alumni to set up and launch new business ventures with funding, training and support.

Through our programmes we have worked with student, staff and alumni entrepreneurs to create dozens of new businesses across a diversity of sectors.