The National Council for Graduate Entrepreneurship (NCGE) and the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation (EMKF) joined together in 2006 with the UK government to develop the NCGE-Kauffman Entrepreneurship Fellowship (NKEF). The NKEF was developed to enable science, engineering and technology students and postgraduates to develop their entrepreneurial skills and ideas and to start a business that would be based in the UK.

In 2006 NKEF offered a 6 month placement in the United States with America’s most innovative entrepreneurial thinkers, experts, universities and small and medium-sized businesses.

Universities across England and Northern Ireland were asked to nominate candidates for the Fellowship. The following Fellows were selected:

2007 Fellows