Training Content
By registering below, you can access to the following training content and certifications:
- Toolkit 1: Entrepreneurial discovery
- Toolkit 2: Setting up responsible & impactful knowledge and technology transfer office
- Toolkit 3: Responsible research and innovation
- Toolkit 4: Investment and financing
- Toolkit 5: Inclusive KPIs for impactful universities
- Toolkit 6: Entrepreneurship, Innovation & Stakeholders
Register for the trainings HERE.
Take the pre-assessment survey on entrepreneurship competences HERE.
Take the pre-assessment survey on research commercialization perception HERE.
Toolkit 1 – Participatory Engagement Strategy for facilitating the Entrepreneurial Discovery Process
Learning Outcomes:
- Understand why engaging stakeholders at all stages of the research and innovation journey is important
- Assess the status of a research project on a research journey
- Identify and map stakeholders appropriate to the stage of the journey
- Develop and execute a stakeholder engagement plan
- Complete an impact canvas
- Students and researchers who are developing their research plan or who are interested in setting up a new commercial venture or exploiting the commercial impact of research
- University administrators who support researchers on their research and innovation journey
Learning outcomes:
- Understand the concept and the science behind the RiEcoLab EIL.
- Identify the wide range of benefits related to the EILs.
- Operationalize the concept of EIL either as an upgrade of existing knowledge technology transfer (KTT) offices or as completely new institutional units/departments.
- Set up a business plan/proposal (including financial) to be put forward to university higher management in order to receive institutional support towards establishing EILs.
- Develop strategies for ensuring institutional commitment and legacy for the EILs.
- Students and researchers who are developing their research plan or who are interested in setting up a new commercial venture or exploiting the commercial impact of research
- Administrators who support researchers on their research and innovation journey
Learning outcomes:
- Define the policy keys, actors, key principles and process requirements of Responsible Research Innovation
- Recognize the relevant KPIs and different approaches for measuring RRI outcomes
- Identify the tools and methods for creating LLs under an RRI perspective
- Apply a step-by-step plan for setting up LLs under RRI principles
- Identify existing self-evaluation tools and best practices for RRI and LLs.
- Upper Management of HEIs (Board of Trustees, Rectors, Vice-Rectors, Deans)
- Policy Makers and Top Administrators who support Research & Development in other
- Institutions, such as; R&D Business/Industry Departments; Technology Parks; Technology Transfer Offices; local management offices of Governmental Organizations/Ministries engaged in Research, Technology & Innovation; Development Agencies; Chambers of Industry and Commerce; NGOs and Associations of Business/Industry people (ex. Young Entrepreneurs, Export associations, etc) and identified EILs Associated Partners.
- Graduate students and researchers who are engaging in research and innovation wishing to exploit the commercial impact of their research
Learning outcomes:
- Identify the most important factors in a new venture to check before asking for/providing funding
- Understand what impact investment is
- Go through the fundraising cycle with a clear image of the different players involved
- Develop/evaluate a pitch
- Establish positive Investee-Investor relations
- Identify an exit strategy
- Students, researchers and entrepreneurs who are developing their research plan or who are interested in setting up a new commercial venture or exploiting the commercial impact of research
- Entities who support the students, researchers and entrepreneurs mentioned above and want to help them to access capital
- Public and private investors who want an overview of best practices in funding.
Learning outcomes:
- Understand the concept of impact and its dimensions
- Know the possible approaches to and benefits of impact measurement and management
- Recognize the relevant metrics and indicators related to new practices that each HEI should possess to support the development of impactful startups/ scale-ups
- Recognize the relevant metrics and indicators related to measuring the actual impact of the emerged start-ups/scale-ups via their launched innovations in the nearby region
- Be familiar with case studies of university start-ups and scale-ups that have been chosen to represent different types of impacts on the economic, natural and social environment.
- Students and researchers who are developing their research plan or who are interested in setting up a new commercial venture
- Graduate students and researchers who are engaging in research and innovation wishing to exploit the commercial impact of their research
- HEI administrators who support researchers on their research
- Upper Management of HEIs (Board of Trustees, Rectors, Vice-Rectors, Deans)
- Policy Makers and Top Administrators who support Research & Development in other Institutions, such as; R&D Business/Industry Departments; Technology Parks; Technology Transfer Offices; local management offices of Governmental Organizations/Ministries engaged in Research, Technology & Innovation; Development Agencies; Chambers of Industry and Commerce; NGOs and Associations of Business/Industry people (ex. Young Entrepreneurs, Export associations, etc) and identified EILs Associated Partners.
Learning outcomes:
- Understand how innovation, entrepreneurship and collaboration adapt to the digital environment;
- Identify the tools, skills and competencies needed to compete in a digital environment;
- Identify the stakeholders with whom they can collaborate for a successful business journey.
- Students, researchers and other youngster who aim to develop a business or a spin-off in a digital environment;
- Non-academic staff who support research activities and need to develop their digital, collaborative and entrepreneurial skills.
Take the post-assessment survey on entrepreneurship competences HERE.
Take the post-assessment survey on research commercialization perception HERE.
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