SETsquared ranked world's top performing university business incubator

SETsquared, the enterprise partnership of the universities of Bath, Bristol, Exeter, Southampton and Surrey, has been ranked by UBI Global as the best performing university business incubator in the world. 

In the 13 years since its inception, SETsquared has supported over 1,000 hi-tech startups to develop and raise over £1 billion of investment and has contributed over £3.8 billion to the UK economy. The partnership currently supports 265 companies and has created over 9,000 new jobs. 

Simon Bond, innovation director at SETsquared, said: “It’s incredible to be recognised as the top university incubator in the world, and we’re all delighted by the news. ‘Team SETsquared’ has worked extremely hard to fulfill our commitment to helping entrepreneurs and start-ups and this top ranking is a real testament to the skill of our staff and the success of the high-tech, high growth potential ventures we work with.

“The UK was recently ranked as the second most innovative country in the world by the Global Innovation Index for its performance in infrastructure, market sophistication, knowledge, technology and creative outputs, and SETsquared is very proud to have played our part in putting the UK on the map as one of the top performing countries for innovation.”

SETsquared works with Wessex AHSN to help entrepreneurs turn their business ideas into investor propositions through its Health Innovation Programme. Applications are now open for the next phase of this world-class development course: visit our news section for more information.