An LSE-led team has developed the Trade Policy Hub which builds on three key resources – constantly evolving evidence-based research, expert knowledge and experience, and network of experts. This allows us to provide customised, rigorous and specialised research on trade and investment policy issues.

Our Trade Policy Hub has been awarded a place in the highly competitive ICURe Innovation-to-Commercialisation programme and received a £35k fund to carry out market validation of our research-based business idea. 

ICURe is a 13-week programme piloted by the SETSquared partnership whilst funded by Innovate UK and HEFCE, to offer university researchers with commercially promising ideas up to £50k to ‘get out of the lab’ and validate their ideas in the marketplace. ICURe funds teams to assess whether there is a market for products or services that utilise their research and then, where there is evidence of market demand, licence or spinout the research into a company.

For the Trade Policy Hub, the programme will be a journey to better understand what kind of expertise should be provided to prepare organisations to respond to the multiple challenges in the global trade environment.

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