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Student Start-Ups

Peter Day finds out about the university societies which unite would-be entrepreneurs with potential backers and mentors.

Britain's universities are alive with a new wave of business activity, and in many of them the largest student societies are the ones which bring would-be entrepreneurs together with potential backers and mentors.

Peter Day samples some of the start-up ideas on show at Cambridge University and hears how academic attitudes to business have changed over the past few decades.

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30 minutes

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Sun 13 Sep 200921:30

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  • Thu 10 Sep 200920:30
  • Sun 13 Sep 200921:30

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