MoTI - Open innovation: How to collaborate to get your idea to market
The objectives of this module are to:
- Explain why collaboration is essential for successful innovation.
- Show why collaborations are challenging to manage.
- Provide you with the tools and techniques to help you collaborate successfully to get new ideas / research outputs to market.
- Please note that thise course is only available to those in the Graduate School of Life Sciences
- Postgraduates in the Graduate School of Life Sciences
- Researchers in the Graduate School of Life Sciences
Number of sessions: 4
| # | Date | Time | Venue | Trainer | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wed 20 Feb 2013 18:00 - 20:00 | 18:00 - 20:00 | Judge Business School, Lecture Theatre 1 | map | |
| 2 | Wed 27 Feb 2013 18:00 - 20:00 | 18:00 - 20:00 | Judge Business School, Lecture Theatre 1 | map | |
| 3 | Wed 6 Mar 2013 18:00 - 20:00 | 18:00 - 20:00 | Judge Business School, Lecture Theatre 1 | map | |
| 4 | Wed 13 Mar 2013 18:00 - 20:00 | 18:00 - 20:00 | Judge Business School, Lecture Theatre 1 | map | |
Introduction: Definitions and context This session provides an overview of the aims, approach and key concepts to be covered in this module. Attention will be focused on the context of open innovation including: changing technologies, new business models, transformation of industry sectors, new roles for universities, the emergence of venture capital, and related topics.
How do big firms implement open innovation? This session will focus on the ways in which large companies are trying to open up their innovation activities to allow them to work with external inventors, universities, start-ups etc. The session will examine the key management challenges that open innovation poses for managers in large firms, and how they are trying to overcome them.
How can start-ups work with large firms? This session will focus the specific issues facing a very small, commercially inexperienced technology start-up trying to work in partnership with a very large corporation. This session will combine lots of horror-stories and failure cases with the some practical exercises to help you avoid making such mistakes.
How can academic researchers work with industry partners? This session will focus on the challenges and opportunities of getting academic researchers (of all types) to work with corporate partners. The session will combine some broad discussion of why this can be a very good thing, with some examples of what can (often) go wrong, and some practical tools and techniques to help you work more effectively with industrial partners.
By the end of this module students should be able to:
- Understand why collaboration is such an important part of innovation.
- Appreciate why collaboration are so hard to manage.
- Demonstrate an awareness of what you need to do to make collaborations successful.
Presentations
Nobody should book on more than any four of the MoTI courses over the academic year because of length of the courses.
When booking on any of the MoTI courses, you must commit to attending all of the sessions in that course (usually four on consecutive weeks). Failure to do so may result in you being prevented from attending future courses and your department and School may be contacted.
Some of the courses run twice, with parallel streams on different days of the week. You must continue to attend the sessions on the day of the week consistent with the day of the course that you booked on to.
Four sessions of two hours
Yearly
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