What else do I need to know?

Terms and conditions

You must read the terms and conditions before you submit your idea. 

Click here to go to the terms and conditions page

Intellectual Property - what do you need to know?

Here at the MAD Ideas competition, we are really interested in helping you to become more creative, more innovative and more entrepreneurial. This means that we want YOU to come up with ideas, exploit your idea (by getting it to a stage where you may be able to make some money from it) and become the next Richard Branson (or entrepreneur of your choice). This does not mean that we want you to give your ideas to us!

So we've put together this guide to help you understand about intellectual property, and how to protect your ideas as we go through the competition.

Click here for more information about Intellectual Property, and

here to download a Non-Disclosure Agreement.

Final Details

The full address of the gallery is

The Vulcan Building, Gunwharf Quays, Portsmouth, PO1 3BF.

The final will take place in two halves - Exhibition and judging will be at the Aspex Gallery from 2pm until 4, with final presentations by the last six shortlisted teams from 4:15 until 4:45.

After the judging, a gala presentation event will be run from 6:30 in the Spinnaker Tower, also at Gunwharf Quays.  This spectacular landmark will enable us to entertain our sponsors and give our winners one last go at the pitch to the invited audience, before being presented with their prizes.

Accommodation can be provided for participants and for mentors - if you need accommodation, please contact Gemma Wan at gemma.wan@ncge.org.uk

Mentors

Our mentors are joining us from across the SE/

If you're a mentor and you're attending the Final, please could you be there from around 3pm on the 23rd April if you would like to view the exhibition, or from 6:30 for the reception.  Dinner won't be provided but there will be food during the reception.  

Our sponsors

(the nice people who make all this possible)

The Make a Difference Competition is sponsored by SEEDA, the South East England Development Agency, and facilitated by the National Council for Graduate Entrepreneurship (NCGE). SEEDA is the lead region for Entrepreneurship and Enterprise in the UK and talks to Government on behalf of all the other regions when policy is made - particularly with respect to universities and student entrepreneurship. The NCGE runs Flying Start, the programme (which you might have heard of) which helps students get business ideas off the ground. If you'd like to find out more about the Flying Start project, or the NCGE programmes for Creative entrepreneurs, then please look at the NCGE website.