From researcher to entrepreneur
2nd year DPhil students, 3rd+ year DPhil students and All Masters students of: MPLS Division; Medical Sciences Division
This 1-day course explores how the two worlds of research and entrepreneurship overlap and how – through the application of a creative problem solving framework – business opportunities in research activity can be identified and progressed. This framework (which is also useful for streamlining the research activity itself) includes a number of tools and techniques that can help nurture a more creative mind-set that may be applied to both business development and research.

Areas covered:
-What is an entrepreneur?
-What do we mean by creativity and innovation?
-The research cycle and how it maps on to the practice of Entrepreneurship
-Drivers for innovation
-The Entrepreneurial skill set and the elements of business planning
-Creative problem solving and the generation of ideas
-A simulation on setting up a new business

Attendees will gain:
-Experience in exploring the business potential of their research in its widest sense (ie the research itself, the tools and techniques of the research, and their own tacit skills & knowledge)
-Experience in applying an idea-generation tool to a research field in order to identify new research and business opportunities
-Greater understanding of the skills of entrepreneurship and how these relate to research skills
-An understanding of the essential aspects of business development
-An understanding of visual business planning, including product definition, marketing, intellectual property rights and finance.
Date: 31 January 2018, 9:00 (Wednesday, 3rd week, Hilary 2018)
Venue: 24-29 St Giles', 24-29 St Giles' OX1 3LB
Venue Details: LG03, Dept Statistics
Speaker: Dr Kevin Byron (University of Leicester )
Organising department: Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences (MPLS)
Organiser: Anne Miller (MPLS)
Organiser contact email address: anne.miller@mpls.ox.ac.uk
Part of: Enterprising Researcher Development Programme
Booking required?: Not required
Booking url: https://weblearn.ox.ac.uk/course-signup/rest/course/4D004D101049
Audience: Members of the University only
Editors: Anne Miller, Sophie Campbell