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ACCELERATE Innovation is a portfolio of initiatives to support innovative thinking and creativity for healthcare innovation.
- Entrepreneurship Skills for Researchers-
ARCHIVED: this event is now offered through UCL Innovation and Enterprise听SPERO Programme.听
This one-day online workshop will focus on the fundamentals of developing an entrepreneaurial mindset. It will help you heighten the impact of your research and think about the value that you are creating with/for existing and potential collaborators. Even if you don't have entrepreneurial ambitions, this workshop will help you frame the skills that you are developing so that you can apply them to widen the impact of your research and identify the support available at UCL.
It will help you:
- Start to recognise and use your enterprise skills;
- develop your own entrepeneurial thinking; and
- generate and develop enterprising ideas using tools such as the business model canvas.
By the end of the workshop, you'll be better able to:听
- develop ideas that create value and make a difference to others;
- identify the relationships needed with relevent stakeholders to move an idea forward more smoothly; and
- set goals to progress your enterprising activity.听
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- Mentoring for Medical Innovation
Would you like听to听have support with听navigating the challenges of medical innovation听and translational research?听听
Would you like to be mentored by a senior innovation leader in the field?听听
Our new mentorship programme will provide a unique opportunity听to听be supported by听one-on-one mentoring with听leading听medical innovators from听CASMI听- The听Collaboration for the Advancement of Sustainable Medical Innovation. Expert training听and resources听will be provided throughout the scheme听to get the听most out of the experience for both mentees and mentors.听听
The scheme is a collaboration听between听ACCELERATE Translational Research Training Programme听and听CASMI.听
For more information, check out the web page
- Team Challenge
This eight-week hands on training programme will see you apply knowledge and skills to develop a proposal to solve a real-life translational research challenge of your choosing in an interdisciplinary team. For example, this can be a commercial idea for a healthcare need (e.g.听a new product or service) or a way of improving an existing service in a non-commercial setting (e.g.听making a hospital process work more efficiently, healthcare data sharing etc.) - anything that proposes to improve healthcare.
Participants will be placed into interdisciplinary teams around shared interests. As a team, you will develop a proposal for an innovative idea that can be solved by the unique combination of skills and experiences of your team members.
At the end of the programme there will be a chance to bid for up 拢10,000 or non-financial support to take your team鈥檚 proposal forward. The previous two cohorts saw 5 projects awarded a cumulative total of almost 拢50,000.听
Target Audience: The Team Challenge is aimed at all healthcare researchers across UCL and the three UCL Biomedical Research Centres, from any discipline and background, from first year post-doctoral fellows upwards. This includes those starting to develop their own research group. Applicants will apply as individuals and be placed into teams based on shared interest.
When and where: The programme will run online. It consists of a blend of whole cohort sessions, independent teamwork sessions, and team coaching sessions with the programme facilitators. Round 3 of the programme will run from 25th September 2023听to 23rd November 2023.听
Apply: 听More information, and the sign up form, are on our webpage
- Innovation in Research
Do you want to create an environment that drives innovation? Crucially, what you need is the听right people in place with the right skills, but how do you do this?
This workshop will give you an introduction on how to build a culture for innovation to flourish.
This workshop will help participants to:
- Understand what creativity and innovation is in the context of research
- Identify the characteristics needed by research leaders and their teams in order to be innovative and
- Plan and design a work environment for innovation to flourish within your research group.
Duration: 90 minutes
Format: OnlineNext event: Monday 30th October 2023, 10am-11:30am.听
Sign Up:听
- Exploring Enterprise Creation
This workshop will give you an insight into how to spot an opportunity for an enterprise from a given research idea. Using case study-based scenarios, the workshop is designed for you to learn the basics of developing a research-led business idea.
This workshop听will help participants to:
- Identify the skills required for a leadership team;
- Recognise enterprise challenges and work with others to find innovative ideas to meet them
- Understand market influences; and
- Develop and communicate a business proposition
Next Event: Tuesday 7th November 2023, 10am- 4:30pm. In Person. Sign Up:
- Translating Your Research For A Non-Academic World (1.5 Day Course)
By taking part in this 1.5 day听workshop, you will learn how to develop your own entrepreneurial thinking and start to identify opportunities to translate your research to make an impact for society.
This workshop will help participants learn how to:
- Pitch yourself and your research effectively to a chosen audience.
- Explore your own enterprising skills and how they relate to translating academic research to a non-academic audience
- Identify ideas for creating value from your research
- Develop ideas that create value and make a difference to others
- Set goals to move forward with the impact that you are making Identify and communicate with stakeholders
Day 1 (of 2)听 Wednesday 15th November 2023, 10am-1pm.听
Duration: Half day
Format: OnlineDay 2 (of 2) Friday 17th November, 10am-4:30pm.听
Duration: One day
Format: In-person
Venue:听University College London
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- At UCL听
- Enterprise Training Programme听- provided by Innovation and Enterprise.
- MSc in Bioscience Entrepeneurship- Post-graduate taught course.
- Medical Innovation and Enterprise MSci- at UCL.听
- 听events on healthcare adoption
- Beyond UCL听
- online course from the Univeristy of Manchester and the NHS.
- online course from the University of Manchester, Manchester Metropolitan University, MAHSE.
- online course from MIT听
- 听series of online courses from the University of Minnosota听
- 听from Medicines Discovery Catapult on innovative drug discovery Bioindustry Association (BIA)-听
- 听webinar series with a focus on omics, biomarkers and bilogics.听
*Disclaimer - These resources have not been produced by UCL and although they have been shared as containing information that may be useful to the Translational Research community, they do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of UCL, ACCELERATE or the Academic Careers Office 听
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