Members of the Royal Academy of Engineering are scheduled to visit Barbados from October 3-7 on a mission to raise awareness about the Leaders in Innovation Fellowship (LIF) Global programme. The programme brings together the emerging leaders in the global innovation community, providing them with access to high-quality skills training focused on commercialisation, a network of peers in their own country, the UK and around the world, and a rich and varied experience with clear immediate and long-term benefits.

Persons interested in meeting with the academy members can contact jsargeant@bidc.org for scheduling.

LIF Global brings together the emerging leaders in the global innovation community, providing them with access to high-quality skills training focused on commercialisation, a network of peers in their own country, the UK and around the world, and a rich and varied experience with clear immediate and long-term benefits.

Who can apply?

The programme welcomes individuals with an interest in entrepreneurship and have an engineering-based innovation comporting a small-scale prototype, with potential to contribute to the social and economic development of their country.

What does it involve?

The training is highly tailored to each participant’s unique goals and challenges, as well as covering business fundamentals like business modelling, sales and marketing, leadership, value proposition and finance. The selected cohort will benefit from 1:1 mentoring with experts, events in-country and in the UK, as well as lifetime membership of a thriving LIF alumni community.

To date, more than 1000 innovators from 19 countries have come through the programme. They have gone on to secure more than $80 million of public and private finance for their businesses, and created over 2500 jobs.

For more information about the programme, please visit the LIF Global page.
Information on how to apply will be available on the same webpage in September.