Be Supported to Start Your Business

The Launchpad is a newly refurbished incubation space for budding entrepreneurs and business owners to use to conduct meetings, market research and connect with fellow entrepreneurs.

Located in the Talbot building, this space offers an enclosed meeting booth, so that you can meet potential clients or mentors in privacy. It also has a large meeting space if you have a team to support your business, as well as an area to conduct more informal chats.

If you are interested in using this space, please email enterprise@swansea.ac.uk. 

The Enterprise Team is on hand to offer bespoke, 1-2-1 business support for our students and graduates. Whether this is by meeting one of the team, or getting you paired up with a mentor from our oustanding alumni who work alongside us.

We can help you form the start of business plans, whilst figuring out financing and practical elements like where to trade and connecting you with local entrepreneurs in your field. 

If you would like to have a start-up meeting with one of the team, please email enterprise@swansea.ac.uk. 

The Enterprise Team have a wealth of connections with alumni, local entrepreneurs and networks across South Wales to support your start-up journey. After meeting with us, we will put you in touch with someone we think will be able to guide and mentor you in your journey to starting up a business. 

Our Entrepreneur in Residence joins us once a month to offer 1-2-1 meetings with our student and graduate business owners. In these meetings, you are able to ask them questions about all things running a business!

Chris James is a highly experienced entrepreneur having started up 8 businesses and been a director in 14 limited companies.  Chis has run technology, retail, software, professional services, third sector and marketing companies.  He has worked in 4 European countries and has undertaken projects and delivered training in Bahrain, Turkey, Egypt and the USA.  During his 35 years of consultancy experience, Chris has worked with academic institutions, development agencies and a wide range of companies including more than 400 SME business improvement projects. Chris is accomplished in both one-to-one mentoring and group presentation. This has most recently included mentoring support with Menter a Busnes, Welsh Government Accelerated Growth Programme, and delivery of digital marketing workshops with Superfast Business Wales. Chris has designed and delivered team role and skills development programmes for both academia and business including management training programmes in multi-national pharmaceutical and technology-based organisations. He has designed programmes such as the EPSRC funded Bridging Innovation programme for commercialising academic research and he has delivered on the LEAD programme in Wales and the Accelerator Programme at Swansea University. Chris was recently commissioned to design and deliver workshops for BUCANIER (food and drink, life sciences, and energy) in Wales and for CALIN (life science and medical organisations in Wales and Ireland). He is current engaged by the European Commission as a consultant on EISMEA-I3 grant submissions.

Test-trading is a fantastic way to get a feel for the market you're breaking into. Through the Enterprise Team, you are able to trade across both Singleton and Bay Campus with our bespoke trading stands. 

With a thriving student community, you will have an engaged audience which will allow your business to gain traction and following, as well as feedback on new products or launches.

If you are interested in trading on campus, please click here to complete the enquiry form.