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One point of contact for tailored support for your business across four structured areas.
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Welcome to the Business Solutions Centre, your gateway to business support at LSBU Business School.

Are you a sole trader, a growing SME or an established business in London looking to take your business further? The BSC connects you with LSBU Business School academics, professionals and students, who provide structured, evidence-based support tailored to your specific challenges.

We offer four defined areas of support, a single point of entry, and partnership tiers that grow with you, from a first guest lecture through to live briefs, to a full Partnership that can include Knowledge Transfer and/or Talent Pipeline development.

Our four areas of support

Enterprise Education

Real business challenges solved by LSBU students and academics through live projects, innovation projections and training. Includes: -Live briefs and innovation projects (academic experts, undergraduate and Master’s) -CPD workshops and employer-facing training

Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship in residence support, Incubator programmes, start-up support and mentoring from sector experts. Includes: -Link to South Bank Works incubator programmes -Opportunities to join Start-up London and Freelance QuickStart series

Placements and Internships

Placement agreements, work-integrated assessment and talent pipeline development. Includes: -Placement agreements and work-integrated assessment support -Career Skills Award and digital certifications

Research and Knowledge Exchange

Applied research collaborations, capability development and Knowledge Transfer Partnerships. Includes: -Applied research projects with SME partners -Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTPs and Management KTPs)

Business Engagement: five steps from enquiry to delivery

Every business and partner enquiry comes through a single point of contact, so nothing gets lost and every request reaches the right team.

  • Email us at bus.bsc@lsbu.ac.uk to register your enquiry. Every request is logged and acknowledged.

  • We arrange an initial meeting, online via Microsoft Teams or face-to-face on campus, to understand your business, your goals and where you need support. This conversation shapes your project brief.

  • We match your enquiry to the most appropriate area of support: Enterprise Education, Entrepreneurship, Placements and Internships, or Research and Knowledge Exchange.

  • A dedicated team works with you to develop tailored solutions and actionable outcomes, business strategies, marketing plans, financial improvements or research insights.

  • Your solutions go live. We review the engagement together, gather your feedback and, where further support would add value, begin a new cycle. Our aim is continuous impact, not a one-off transaction.

Partnership tiers

We offer structured routes for organisations that want to work more closely with LSBU Business School. Each tier maps to one or more of our four areas of support, so it is easy to see where your organisation fits — and how the relationship can grow.

Tier 1 EntryTier 2 EmbeddedTier 3 Strategic
  • Guest lectures
  • Advisory contributions
  • Live briefs
  • Innovation projects
  • Employer event sponsorship
  • Placements and internships
  • Joint modules and curriculum co-design
  • Knowledge Transfer Partnerships
  • CPD programmes

Areas of expertise

When you work with us, our academics and students can draw on expertise across the following areas:

  • Access to finance
  • Behavioural and decision science
  • Branding
  • Business planning
  • Business strategy
  • Digital marketing
  • E-business and e-commerce
  • Market research and consumer behaviour
  • Marketing strategy
  • Offline marketing
  • Pitching
  • Project management
  • Record keeping
  • Risk management
  • Social media marketing
  • Tax and small business accounting

Not sure where to start? These are some of the questions our partners most often bring to us:

  • How can I use social media to compete in today’s market?
  • How can I grow my business online and offline?
  • How can I identify and understand my competitors?
  • How can I write or improve my business plan?
  • How can I access potential funding or resources?
  • How can I improve my financial management and record keeping?
  • How can I manage risk more effectively?

Working with the BSC is designed to deliver value you can see and measure:

  • Clearer routes to collaborate, one point of entry, a structured process, and a named team for every engagement.
  • Higher-value outputs,  evidence-based strategies, plans and insights, reviewed with you at the end of every engagement.
  • Talent and workforce pipelines, direct access to students and graduates through placements, internships and live projects.
  • Innovation and capability growth applied research and knowledge exchange that build lasting capability in your organisation.

We gather feedback at the close of every engagement and track outcome over time, so our support keeps improving and its impact can be evidenced.

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