This intensive blended learning course equips PhD researchers with the entrepreneurial mindset, skills, and tools needed to transform scientific discoveries into viable innovations and ventures. The course combines online pre-work with a hands-on, 5-day lecture and workshop series (10-14th of November) and aims to give students and researchers an overview about entrepreneurship as well as common business tools and strategies, to be able to assess the commercialization potential of a scientific idea and to develop solutions towards market needs. Topics include:

• Bringing Scientific Inventions and Research Ideas to Market
• Entrepreneurship in all its Facets
• Designing for Demand / Lean Canvas
• Business Strategies and Models
• Effectuation and Design Thinking
• Intellectual Property
• Financing and Funding Strategies
• Ethics and Regulatory Frameworks
• Risk Management and Mitigation
• Networking, Collaboration and Pitching 
   

Through lectures, interactive workshops, peer collaboration, expert mentoring, and real-world case studies, researchers will learn how to identify opportunities, mobilize resources, and create value (financial, societal and/or cultural). Students will work in groups on three assignments: Lean Canvas, a report detailing Lean Canvas findings and assumptions and a slide deck for final presentations.

To register, contact:
Contact your local NTEU project manager

Instructors:
Ásgeir Jónsson – asgeirjo@ru.is
Hallur Þór Sigurðarson – hallursig@ru.is
Susanne Durst – susanned@ru.is