flare 2013
Get your bright business ideas off the ground with flare – the University of Hertfordshire’s Enterprise Ideas Challenge.
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Do you have a business idea, product or service, or have launched an existing business in the last three years?
What is flare?

A competition for budding entrepreneurs to help you get your bright business ideas off the ground.
Support for contestants

Benefit from training workshops designed to support you every step of the way through the flare competition.
Winners and runners up

Read about our previous flare winners and see what they won during earlier years of the competition.
News and events
Local Entrepreneur Scoops Top Prize In Enterprise Challenge
Monday 21 May

A young female entrepreneur has claimed the first prize in the final of flare, the University of Hertfordshire’s prestigious annual Enterprise Ideas Challenge.
Levi helps to launch Enterprise initiatives
Thursday 27 October

The University’s Enterprise Team launched a collaboration event of their Enterprise initiatives to kick-start the academic year earlier this month.
Midwifery Student Scoops Top Prize In University Business Challenge
Tuesday 14 June

A business idea set to revolutionise the way in which foetal heart rate is monitored won this year’s flare competition during an awards ceremony held at Hatfield House.
Hertfordshire named Entrepreneurial University of the Year
Friday 26 November

The University of Hertfordshire has won the prestigious Times Higher Education ‘Entrepreneurial University of the Year’ award.