Membership

Encompassing private and public funded organizations and centres of innovation and enterprise, UKBI represents a wide range of business growth environments and sectors – science, bio-science and technology parks, innovation, business and enterprise centres, business incubators, regeneration parks, creative industries, venture capital funds, business angels, coaching and mentoring personnel, academics and individuals with an stake in the process of business startup and accelerated growth. 

UKBI Membership Categories

Core Organisation Membership is for organisations and companies involved in business growth, incubation and giving value added support to early stage and high growth innovative enterprises within their facilities.

Encompassing research and development, science and technology, regeneration – core  organisational members include universities,  public-private partnerships, publicly funded or privately owned organisations:

Science parks                                                                Technology parks

Bio science parks                                                           Enterprise parks

Regeneration parks                                                       Research parks/centres

Innovation centres                                                         Business centres

Business incubators                                                       Business acceleration centres

Trade bodies                                                                  Facilities

University business centres                                           Local Authority business centres


Core Individual Membership

  • Professionals involved in business entrepreneurship, growth and innovation, socio-economic and business development
  • Academics, consultants and other professionals interested in business entrepreneurship, innovation, development  and growth
  • Students of economics, business entrepreneurship and development

Core International membership

  • Organisations; as above, based outside the UK
  • Individuals; as above, based outside of the UK

Affiliate membership

  • organisations and individuals active in the support of business growth community and professionals - eg
    • banks, the business investment community, financial service providers, law firms, communications and PR consultants, recruitment companies and property and infra-structure developers and other suppliers.

Patron membership

  • Have a significant stake in the promotion and success of business and accelerated growth community and their client businesses- eg
    • Banks, venture capitalists, Business Angels, law firms
    •  Government departments and  local authorities
    •  Universities
    •  Entrepreneurs



You can join UKBI online, click here

For more information, please contact Keiron Broadbent or Bhavana Desai