1. Graduate Incubation Studio
Cardiff School of Art & Design

2. What is Graduate Incubation @ CSAD ?

3. It’s a ‘Business Start-up Space’
Another name for ‘Your Business’
Q Your Practice
So….its
Q Your Business Practice Space

4. Where ?
A Place where you can develop and test
your Business plan and successfully launch
your Your Practice !
A safe place to take risks and build
Your Practice !

5. Access to Personal start up studio space for
12 months
September 2014 – September 2015
How ?
Via competitive application to CSAD

6. Who is it for ?
Applicants must be CSAD graduates,
either Undergrads, Postgrads, or
Researchers.
Applicants must be UK/EU nationals
without visa restrictions
Applicants must already have a
business idea that they want to
develop further.

7. What’s it Cost ?
£1000
What else do I get for this ?

8. What you get ?
1 Dedicated, secure studio space
2 Part of a ‘community’ of Practitioners
3 Part of a community of like minded people
4 Access to CSAD resources, facilities, and expertise
5 Internal academic mentors, and external
practitioner mentors matched to grads’
6 Purchase of materials through the CSAD at cost

9. What you get ?
7 Access to University Business mentors, &
production of fully formed operational business plan
8 Access to CSAD Research seminars
9 Access to University Professorial lectures
10 Access to your own Incubation Hot desk
11 Business Start-up launch event supported by
CSAD at the end of the 12 months

10. The application Process
Three routes into the Graduate Incubation Studio
One:
2014-15 3rd years UG Dissertation Business Plan
option
Two:
2015 Summer Boot Camp
Three:
2014 Short Application Form

13. Questions ?