Competition

Ten Things You Need to Know About the CUE Competition

  1. All of our events, trainings and award ceremonies, are FREE.
  2. All £100 and £1K cash prizes are to give away with no strings attached!
  3. You can enter ANY or ALL of the three sub-competitions: £100 for 100 words, the £1k competition, and the £5k competition.
  4. You don’t need a brilliant idea to enter the competition – some times you don’t even need an idea: join someone else’s team!
  5. You can win multiple prizes, if you have multiple good ideas!
  6. You can still enter if you’ve recently graduated (less than 12 months)!
  7. You can even enter if you’re not a student at Cambridge, as long as you have a Cambridge student in the executive team.
  8. It’s an absolutely fantastic experience to put on your CV as evidence for “leadership and management skills” and “commercial awareness”.
  9. You can get FREE and ONE-TO-ONE advice from the business gurus and academics from Cambridge.
  10. You will be joining the network of “CUE Alumni” and enjoy continuous support even after the competition.

So why wait? Enter the competition!

Competition Handbook 2011/12

What’s New This Year? 2011/12

  • A General Innovation stream is introduced to the £1k and £5k Competitions to capture all business ideas that do not fit into the current competition stream structure.
  • One special Biotech and Life Science Prize is in place within the Technology stream for £1K and £5K entries that falls within these areas.
  • £100 for 100 Words Competition entries will only be judged on one criterion: potential.
  • There will only be one £5k Competition stage: all entrants to this sub-competition are required to submit their entries by the deadline and come to the Grand Finale to find out who the winners are.
  • Business plans for the £5k Competition have a word limit of 2000 to 3500. Please be concise and convey your unique selling points to the judges within the word limit.
  • Alumni of the University of Cambridge are now eligible to enter the competition given that they graduated from the University no more than 12 months ago and submit appropriate evidence alongside their entries.
  • Past and current i-Teams participants are allowed to enter the £1k and £5k Competitions with the entry fee waived, provided that they obtain a letter from Amy Mokady and submit it with their entries.