For research and university leaders
Executive PhD routes for your CDT or DTC bid
This is for you if…
…your university or consortium is bidding for a doctoral-training call of the CDT or DTC type, such as UKRI’s Venture Doctorates, and wants doctoral routes for senior professionals and experienced entrepreneurs.
CBIT brings Executive PhD routes into your doctoral-training bid, with venture building for your doctoral candidates and industry partners from the CBIT Venture Builder network.
What you get
- The Executive PhD route: doctoral study for senior professionals and experienced entrepreneurs, with their own company as the living case.
- The practitioner-doctorate route, with CBIT’s venture-building infrastructure behind it.
- Venture building for your doctoral candidates.
- Industry partners from the CBIT Venture Builder network.
Format
- A named role in your bid, such as Venturing Co-Director, and the routes inside the programme.
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Where this can lead
- Fund it together: CBIT named in your doctoral-training bid.
- Add a venture engine: CBIT runs the venture-creation work in the funded programme. Venture partner for your bid
- For one senior professional: the Executive PhD, with their own company as the living case. Executive PhD
Not what you need?
Other ways to work with CBIT, for research and university leaders:
- Interdisciplinary research bids
- Venture partner for your bid
- STEAM Founder for researchers
- Innovation ecosystem building
- Founder sprints in the UK
- Sister centres
- Keynotes and masterclasses
Or another door:
- Founders and SMEs Start or grow a venture
- Business leaders and companies Develop your leaders and teams
- Government leaders and international partners Build national and regional capability

