The Manchester Science Enterprise Centre (MSEC) was created as one of 13 UK Science Enterprise Centres (SECs) designed to assist engineers and scientists in academia (both staff and students) spin out their inventions into the real world. The idea was to enable student engineers of different disciplines to grow their ideas into a product and venture ready for incubation or a market. The first task of the centre was to build an enterprise laboratory - the Business Creation Unit (BCU) (see fig 1). The choice of generic vocabulary de-emphasises the science or engineering (the two terms are used interchangeably) and emphasises the output of venture creation.
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