Enterprising Scientists: Generating Value and Opportunities
24 March 2015 - 25 March 2015
United Kingdom
Do you want to?
• Develop a business idea related to your research?
• Learn about enterprise opportunities in large firms as well as in high-tech start-ups?
• Gain skills to communicate in an effective manner in industry contexts?
What does the workshop aim for?
• Understand how important ‘enterprise’ is in turning an idea into an innovation through real industry case studies
• Identify enterprising opportunities around your research – in a university setting, a large corporation and SME.
• Enrich your career prospects by engaging directly with industry speakers
What will you learn?
• Skills in understanding innovation, communicating and convincing all stakeholders, including investors and to expand networks.
• Opportunities and challenges of being enterprising scientists within academia, small and large firms.
Who should take the course?
The workshop is intended for the final year PhD students and Early-stage post-doctoral researchers in scientific and engineering disciplines, who are interested in industry career.
Early career researchers working in industry who want to generate value from research and technology are also welcome to attend.
Speakers
Industry contributors, EIRMA (European Industry Research Management Association), University of Manchester, Manchester Business School (MBS), and HEKATE project team.
The workshop has been developed in the course of the HEKATE – Higher Education and Enterprises: Knowledge Alliances for the Training of Entrepreneurs – project (www.hekate-project.eu). HEKATE is a project within the European framework of the University–Business Cooperation initiative. The main aim of the initiative is to form the so called “Knowledge Alliances”. ‘Knowledge Alliances’ are intended to bring together businesses and higher education institutions to strengthen and develop Europe’s innovation potential via the provision, for example, of new higher education learning and teaching methods.
HEKATE is positioned specifically in the topic ‘Fostering entrepreneurial skills and attitudes, by promoting transversal skills through the inclusion of enterprise education throughout higher education programmes.’ HEKATE has been funded with support from the European Commission. Project partners are Manchester Business School, Hamburg University of Technology, EIRMA (European Industrial Research Management Association), Solvay and TuTech Innovation.
Please visit www.hekate-project.eu for further details or contact Dr. Margarete Remmert-Rieper at euwork@tutech.de.
• Develop a business idea related to your research?
• Learn about enterprise opportunities in large firms as well as in high-tech start-ups?
• Gain skills to communicate in an effective manner in industry contexts?
What does the workshop aim for?
• Understand how important ‘enterprise’ is in turning an idea into an innovation through real industry case studies
• Identify enterprising opportunities around your research – in a university setting, a large corporation and SME.
• Enrich your career prospects by engaging directly with industry speakers
What will you learn?
• Skills in understanding innovation, communicating and convincing all stakeholders, including investors and to expand networks.
• Opportunities and challenges of being enterprising scientists within academia, small and large firms.
Who should take the course?
The workshop is intended for the final year PhD students and Early-stage post-doctoral researchers in scientific and engineering disciplines, who are interested in industry career.
Early career researchers working in industry who want to generate value from research and technology are also welcome to attend.
Speakers
Industry contributors, EIRMA (European Industry Research Management Association), University of Manchester, Manchester Business School (MBS), and HEKATE project team.
The workshop has been developed in the course of the HEKATE – Higher Education and Enterprises: Knowledge Alliances for the Training of Entrepreneurs – project (www.hekate-project.eu). HEKATE is a project within the European framework of the University–Business Cooperation initiative. The main aim of the initiative is to form the so called “Knowledge Alliances”. ‘Knowledge Alliances’ are intended to bring together businesses and higher education institutions to strengthen and develop Europe’s innovation potential via the provision, for example, of new higher education learning and teaching methods.
HEKATE is positioned specifically in the topic ‘Fostering entrepreneurial skills and attitudes, by promoting transversal skills through the inclusion of enterprise education throughout higher education programmes.’ HEKATE has been funded with support from the European Commission. Project partners are Manchester Business School, Hamburg University of Technology, EIRMA (European Industrial Research Management Association), Solvay and TuTech Innovation.
Please visit www.hekate-project.eu for further details or contact Dr. Margarete Remmert-Rieper at euwork@tutech.de.