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Feedback to the participants on their plans
Group Project Part 1
Group Project Part 3
Group Project Part 4
Group Project Part 2
DAWOOD PARKER (Melys Diagnostics Limited, UK)
Can Scientists and Engineers be Entrepreneurs?
DAWOOD PARKER AND TONY BUNN (Melys Diagnostics Limited, UK/MRC Innovation Centre, South Africa)
Classroom exercise on commercializing an idea
DIPALI BHATT-CHAUHAN AND S. RAGHU (IOP, UK/Advanced Fluidics LLC, USA)
Wrap-up for the Day 2
Wrap-up for the Day 3
Introducing Entrepreneurship and Business skills in Science Curriculum
DIPALI BHATT-CHAUHAN AND SURYA RAGHU (IOP, UK/Advanced Fluidics LLC, USA)
Workshop Objectives
Concluding Remarks
FULVIA FARINELLI (UNCTAD, Switzerland)
Developing Key Entrepreneurial Competencies - exercise
Welcome Remarks
JOE NIEMALA AND JOHN DUDLEY (ICTP, Italy/President, EPS)
Writing Skills for Research and Business Plans
Participants upload business plan presentations
RICHARD BROOKS (FD Solutions, UK)
Making a business case of an idea – a classroom exercise
Introduction to financial terminology. A worked gross margin calculation Team exercise using financial forecast App
Business Plan Fundamentals, Introduction to simple valuation, Return on Investment, exercise
Where to go for cash and Investor expectations
RICHARD BROOKS AND JOE NIEMELA (FD Solutions, UK/ICTP, Italy)
Speed-Networking Exercise
Intro to group project. Groups meet with mentors
SURYA RAGHU (Advanced Fluidics LLC, USA)
Market Research, Technology Forecasting and Opportunity Assessment
Taking the inventions to market – Evaluating the Technology Readiness Level (TRL) of an invention for commercialization, processes involved and estimates of time required to develop a product from an invention
Presentation Skills
Key Decisions in Starting a Business and Dealing with Failures
Team Exercise: Opportunities and challenges for your Technology Commercialization
TONY BUNN (MRC Innovation Centre, South Africa)
Importance of Marketing and Competition Analysis Consumer behaviour surveys and customer feedback
TONY BUNN/DAWOOD PARKER (MRC Innovation Centre, South Africa/Melys Diagnostics Limited, UK)
Lessons from start-ups and spin-offs (45 minutes each)
Concept of intellectual property, its significance and protection for starting a high-tech company IP: Patents, trade secrets and trademarks. Who is the inventor and who is not? Who owns the rights to an invention – you or your organization/company? NDA and PIA
Classroom exercise on patenting an idea
Legal Issues, Contracts and Agreements for Entrepreneurs

Organizers

S. Raghu, D. Bhatt-Chauhan, J. Niemela.
ICTP Local Organizer: J. Niemela

Co-sponsors