HEKATE – Higher Education and Enterprises: Knowledge Alliances for the Training of Entrepreneurs
A HEKATE Enterprise Workshop 'Turning ideas into business opportunities' will take place in Hamburg on 08th - 10th April 2015.
The workshop offers a unique opportunity to early stage researchers (PhD students, Postdocs) and early career business professionals to learn how to turn ideas into business opportunities.
The workshop follows experience-based learning approach. The course involves senior academics and R&D managers anchoring the learning experience of participants by coaching/training, lectures, discussions and presentations. Participants will learn strategies and tools to pursue a business idea throughout different development stages within both company and academic settings. The aim is to strengthen the entrepreneurial drive and the innovation skills among participants.
The workshop is intended for early career researchers and business professionals in scientific and technical disciplines who aim to improve their knowledge about processes involved in bringing ideas into business opportunities.
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.
Further information < http://hekate-project.eu/event/?id=1969(opens in new window)
Note to the editor:
TuTech Innovation which is organising the workshop was founded in 1992 as the technology transfer institute for the Hamburg University of Technology. We are offering services regarding participation in EU funded programmes especially for publicly funded universities and SMEs.