EDINBURGH, UK – August 2021: University of Edinburgh students and recent graduates have launched 100 start-up companies in a single year for the first time. The total launched in 2020-21 is higher than any institution in the Russell Group of 24 leading UK universities has previously recorded. Entrepreneurial students and staff at the University of Edinburgh receive free support from Edinburgh Innovations, the University???s commercialisation service, including one-to-one business advice, access to mentoring networks, accelerator programmes and a busy calendar of enterprise events and competitions. Pictured Colin Powers (centre), founder of startup company Ellyra, demonstrates his virtual-reality tennis training software to (left to righ) Professor Peter Mathieson, Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Edinburgh, George Baxter, CEO Edinburgh Innovations and Lorna Baird, Student Enterprise Manager – Edinburgh Innovations. (Photograph: MAVERICK PHOTO AGENCY)

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