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Carnegie Innovation Sport Health Tech Incubator

Supporting early-stage and scaling businesses in the sport, physical activity, health and wellbeing technology sector.

Leeds United player, Rodrigo Moreno Machado, running on a treadmill in LBU's Centre for Human Performance
The entrance Carnegie School of Sport building and outdoor seating area on Headingley Campus

What is Carnegie Innovation?

Carnegie Innovation is a Sport Health Tech Incubator hosted by Leeds Beckett University and located within the Carnegie School of Sport on the university's Headingley campus.  The incubator targets early-stage and scaling businesses in the sport, physical activity, health and wellbeing technology sector. It provides high-quality co-working and incubation space within the repurposed Grade Il listed Fairfax Hall, embedded in our  world-leading sport and health research environment.

What we do

Carnegie Innovation combines physical infrastructure with access to:

  • applied research expertise and facilities
  • innovation support
  • commercialisation pathways

This strengthens the West Yorkshire region's sport health tech ecosystem. The Incubator offers a community of early-stage Sport Health Tech businesses to help support you as you grow your business.

A programme of workshops and talks from supporting experts is also available along with social and networking events.

our network

Backed by a £1.1million investment from the West Yorkshire Combined Authority through the West Yorkshire Investment Zone, Carnegie Innovation supports the regions aim to establish itself as one of the UK’s most influential hubs for health tech and the ideal place to start a Sport Health tech business.

We're also connected to our wider region's academic community through our association with In-Path, a pan West Yorkshire academic brokerage service. This collaboration allows us to ensure that we can link businesses to the right university expertise, facilities talent and funding mechanisms.

This collaboration allows us to ensure that we can link businesses to the right university expertise, facilities talent and funding mechanisms.

Get in touch with Carnegie Innovation

We can support you to begin or scale your business in the sport, physical activity, health and wellbeing technology sector.
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