Prince of Wales Innovation Scholarships

Taking Wales to the World... and the world to Wales

What is POWIS?|

Managed by the University of Wales Global Academy, the Prince of Wales Innovation Scholarships (POWIS) is enabling research and development projects within Welsh companies. POWIS is already working with over 30 Welsh based companies, ranging from global corporations to new technology start ups.

POWIS helps build a global team to drive innovation in businesses by:

• Placing top global doctoral researchers within participating companies
• Finding expert academic supervision from Welsh and international universities to support your R&D project
• Assigning one of our specialist project managers to steer your R&D project from ideas to market as quickly as possible
• Providing free access and membership to some of world’s leading thinkers and open innovation programmes such as Massachusetts Institute of Technology Industrial Liaison Program.

Take a look at our introduction video about the benefits for companies working with POWIS.

POWIS will help improve your company’s access to cutting-edge R&D and thinking and, then help to generate new commercial products, processes, patents and services. The programme is unique in that the emphasis is upon driving innovation and commercialisation within business, rather than other collaborative programmes which have tended to focus on the skills development of the scholars.