Business Competition 2024-25 is now closed for entries
We can now confirm that the UHI Business Competition for 2024-25 is now closed for entries.
This year the competition closed at 12 noon on 26th February 2025 with the judging and award ceremony due to take place at UHI Inverness on 26th March 2025. To find out what is involved in our award ceremony why not read more on the Winners of our Business Competition 2023-24.
Winners of our Business Competiton 2023-24
Our generous sponsors donated a total prize fund of £8,000 of cash prizes as well as accountancy and legal packages offered by Johnston Carmichael and Harper Macleod LLP.
Shortlisting took place on 30th April with the finalists invited to pitch to our judges on 22nd May 2024 and from there the judges made their final decisions with the winners announced at our finals event that evening.
Our judges listened to all the pitches and had a difficult job choosing winners for each of our prize categories and it was down to the wire to have the certificates prepared for the evening presentation.
Our prizes included -
- Top Prize of £1,000 along with accountancy and legal packages
- Best Student Award
- Best Social Impact
- Best Commercial
- Best Tech Idea
- Best Engineer
We also had prizes awarded to -
- Youth Entrepreneurship
- Best Use of Technology
- Best Researched and
- Most Innovative.
Our evening started with our stallholders and a 2-course meal before heading through to the lecture theatre to listen to our Keynote Speaker - Debbie Strang, founder Director and Chief Operating Officer of SaxaVord before moving on to the prizegiving.
Sponsors
Many thanks to the following for their continued sponsorship and support:
UHI Inverness, The Apprentice Store, Engineers in Business Fellowship, Harper Macleod LLP, Johnston Carmichael, Northern Innovation Hub, Royal Bank of Scotland, Techscaler 'CodeBase', University of the Highlands and Islands, and Whyte & Mackay.