The US is booming with student founders: Twitch, DropBox, Facebook, Dell were all founded from university dorm rooms.
In the UK, this is widely missing. Why?
Our thesis is that the UK legacy education system has been sorting students into perfectly divided walls, you have your coders, creatives, scientists, and financiers. But innovation is only possible when disciplines, perspectives and beliefs cross paths.
And Kickstart is breaking traditions and brick walls with UK's first ever cross-university-accelerator.