SetSquared fended off competition from peers such as RMZ, Chalmers Ventures and Yes!Delft to seal UBI's global university incubator award for a third time.
SetSquared, the UK-based enterprise support partnership between the universities of Bath, Bristol, Exeter, Southampton and Surrey, was crowned the world’s best university-managed incubator for a third time yesterday by research and advisory firm UBI Global.
The award was announced at UBI’s World Incubation Summit in Qatar, the apex of a benchmarking program that includes more than 1,500 incubators and accelerators in 78 countries.
SetSquared first topped the ranking in 2015 and subsequently shared the prize with Ryerson University’s DMZ incubator in February 2018.
The partnership was founded in 2001 to collectively foster emerging enterprises through spinouts, licensing and incubation, working together with industry through research collaborations and consultancy.
To date, SetSquared has supported more than 4,000 UK-based tech startups which have together raised more than £1.8bn ($2.3bn) and whose overall economic impact has been pegged at about $11bn.
Simon Bond, innovation director at…
