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Eights students of German at the University of Leeds took part in the third annual German Business Student of the Year award.

University of Leeds technology entrepreneurs, Liam Patterson and Jason Dainter, have secured a second venture capital investment of £160,000 to expand their rapidly growing business, Eco Market, into the lucrative US and Australian markets.

An entrepreneurial philosophy undergraduate from the University of Leeds who has developed a range of home-made healthy dog food is this year’s winner of the Sir Peter Thompson Enterprise Award, announced last night (Tuesday 7 May).

Over 80 researchers from the UK, France, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Netherlands, Norway, Slovenia, USA and Canada visited the University of Leeds to attend three international research events, hosted by the Enterprise Centre.

Wednesday 6th March saw 40 University of Leeds students volunteer with local community projects: The Growing Zone, Holbeck in Bloom, and Wyke Beck Valley Project, planting trees, painting walls and fences, potting plants, and collecting rubbish as part of the Leeds Enterprise Centre’s CSR in Action project.

With the job market for graduates being so competitive and students considering the value of doing a degree, what can we learn from talking to small businesses about their experiences of employing graduates?

On Thursday 10th January, Leeds Enterprise Centre played host to Sir Tim Wilson, author of the recent Review of Business-University Collaboration, and Prof. Andy Penaluna, who was instrumental in developing the new QAA guidelines for Enterprise Education in HE.

If the reaction to the lasted GDP figure is anything to go by, the answer to all our economic woes is growth ...

We are pleased to announce that Dr Sarah Underwood, Director of Learning and Teaching for the Leeds Enterprise Centre and a Lecturer in Enterprise here at Leeds University Business School, has been awarded a Full University Student Education Fellowship.

Do you have a business idea? Have you already started your business and now want to take it to the next level? Applications are now open for the Leeds University Business Plan Competition 2013.