news and events
Royal College of Art allocated 10 places in the Tier 1 Graduate Entrepreneur Scheme for 2013/14
Royal College of Art has once again been accepted as an endorsing body by the Home Office, and... More...
Call for applications 2013!
'Put your ideas to work!' More...
World’s first ever foldable wheelchair wheels launched, and line-up for Designs of the Year
Morph™ Wheels were launched onto the market this month by Home Healthcare manufacturer Maddak Inc... More...
Two Tier 1 Visas for InnovationRCA Entrepreneurs!
Po-Chih Lai and Wen Zeng are being sponsored by the RCA for the visas, having won... More...
Selected Design-Tech Start-ups Investor Evening a Success!
InnovationRCA's annual event to connect investors to six of the hottest design-led technology start-ups... More...
The new Dyson Fellow for 2012/13 is…
Michael Warren! More...
WATES Giving Bursary – winners announced!
Congratulations to Hal Watts and Gaspard Tiné-Berès, who are this year's winners of the WATES Giving Bursary... More...
ARCC Fellowship 2012 awarded to Michael Warren!
Congratulations to Michael, the first recipient of our new ARCC fellowship... More...
Announcing Selected Design Technology Start-ups 2012
InnovationRCA's 3rd annual event featuring the hottest design-tech graduate start-ups emerging from its business incubator More...
Incubator Selects Wave 6
Five teams selected to join the Incubator after an intense selection process More...
Announcing the Innovate! Exhibition
New products, new ventures, new entrepreneurs from the Royal College of Art! More...
will.i.am guest speaker at Innovation Night 2012
Musician, entrepreneur and philanthropist will.i.am was the guest speaker at this year's RCA Innovation Night on Tuesday 28 June 2012. More...
Design-Technology Incubation Event
Insights into the creation and incubation of early stage interdisciplinary ventures More...
Announcing The Wates Foundation £20,000 Social Enterprise Bursary at InnovationRCA
The Wates Foundation Social Enterprise Bursary at InnovationRCA will give one RCA graduate (or team of graduates) the opportunity to develop their social enterprise idea and kick start their business. More...
Fact Finding European Delegation of MPs visit InnovationRCA
InnovationRCA hosted a delegation of Polish Members of Parliament from the Committee of Innovation and New Technologies More...
RCA Plastic Electronics and Design Seminar and Workshop
This first RCA Plastic Electronics seminar was organised by InnovationRCA in partnership with the Electronics, Sensors and Photonics Knowledge Transfer Network (ESP KTN). More...
New Entrepreneurial Programmes launched at InnovationRCA
InnovationRCA announced a new entrepreneurship summer support programme, Entrepreneurs Launchpad, at the launch of Selected Works 2012/13. More...
RCA start-ups exporting for growth
Royal College of Art start-ups selected as two of the ten finalists for the UKTI Export for Growth Prize. More...
Made-in-Mind launches its first product, The Mu
The Mu has launched for sale. It is a long awaited alternative plug for mobile device users. Britain’s first folding plug, it was originally designed at the Royal College of Art by Min-Kyu Choi. More...
Kwickscreen voted one of Britain’s 50 New Radicals
Congratulations to Kwickscreen, developer of Kwickscreen portable room partitions for being voted one of Britain’s 50 New Radicals by NESTA and the Observer. More...
‘Building in a bag’ company bags Innovation through Technology Chambers Award 2011
Concrete Canvas Ltd, has been awarded the coveted British Chambers of Commerce National Award for ‘Innovation through Technology’ at this year’s Chambers Awards. More...
Launch of Rightweight book
Rightweight – a new book to help designers develop suitably weighted products was launched at an event held at the Institute of Materials in November 2011. More...
Welcome to Wave V - new ventures join the InnovationRCA Incubator
InnovationRCA welcomed seven new ventures joined its Incubator at the beginning of 2012. More...
Launch of the James Dyson Patent and Proof of Concept Fund
The launch event, with news of a new fund, took place in the Royal College of Art on 14 November. More...
Innovative Natural running shoe ‘Dots’ wins the 2011 Innovation Hothouse
Peter Kuschnigg, a Selected Works’ Associate and graduate from RCA Innovation Design Engineering, has won this year’s Innovation Hothouse competition. More...
KwickScreen, Young Entrepreneur of the Year and winner of UK James Dyson Award
Royal College of Art graduate and founder of KwickScreen, Michael Korn, was named Young Entrepreneur of the Year by Shell LiveWIRE. More...
RCA Business Incubation exhibition
The Royal College of Art has been invited to showcase its business incubation activities and at the Department of Business Innovation and Skills (BIS). More...
FuelRCA launches innovative partnership with PricewaterhouseCoopers
We all know artists and designers are exceptional thinkers and innovators, but often bringing their projects to fruition in a commercial framework once they leave the Royal College of Art can be more of a challenge. More...
New nursing bag to combat infection
The Health Show, broadcast on BBC World News, has promoted InnovationRCA's Selected Work health product – the 2ist Century medical bag. More...
RCA Innovation Night 2011 with Burberry Chief Creative Officer Christopher Bailey
Christopher Bailey, Chief Creative Officer, Burberry, was the guest speaker at this year's RCA Innovation Night on Tuesday 28 June 2011. More...
RCA's Business Incubator Call for Expressions of Interest
The Royal College of Art's Business Incubator is looking for the most exciting innovations and will help transform these into new business ventures. The Expression of Interest call is open to RCA and Imperial students of alumni. More...
RCA's Interdisciplinary Business Incubator receives NESTA backing
The Royal College of Art has received backing from NESTA to continue to develop the highly successful Design London business incubator. More...
Innovation deal for folding wheels on wheelchairs
In March 2011, a revolutionary product innovation for disabled people designed by Royal College of Art graduate Duncan Fitzsimons was licensed to leading home-healthcare and rehabilitation products manufacturer, Maddak Inc, by InnovationRCA. More...
Launch of Selected Works and Selected Start-Ups 2011
More than 80 students and recent graduates attended the first of two James Dyson Intellectual Property (IP) Rights Seminars for 2011 on 18 November at the Royal College of Art. More...
