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31st May
Biotech Business Skills Workshop - University of Dundee
Well it seemed to go ok; all the students came back the next day! Good degree of interest from the University in Biotechnology YES for this year. Just need to get them talking and into teams. Good to see Wei come all the way from London to take part and to Link in with him and Monika, so must be doing something right. Fantastic enthusiasm for YES from Hosea and his team and grateful for their help on Day 2. Is there really nothing like this in London? If not, I'm sure we can help. Can I look forward to nect year? We'll see.
Biotech Business Skills, University of Sheffield
Unless Survey Monkey lied, the students definitely liked it. Excellent encouragement and enthusiasm from Prof Tim Skerry and some cynicism about fat blokes in a suit from Prof Simon Foster. Must go on a diet before too long! A presentation from Professor John Peberdy MBE on reasons to do YES went down really well and thanks to Tabitha and the guys for going through the pitch again. Too much beer was drunk with Dave Martin on the Monday night and the next night found that the pub at the Station also sells fantastic beer;thanks, James. Already lining up 2011 with Lucy.
Old News
Institute for Knowledge Transfer recognises Genecom as a 'recognised Course Provider'
The Institute for Knowledge Transfer is a body of professionals "who are professionally engaged in making the exchange of knowledge more effective" Sir Brian Feder President. The Institute of Knowledge Transfer (IKT) sets the highest standards for the development of its profession and provides support and guidance on a range of relevant KT Training and Development (T&D) and Continuing Professional Development (CPD) courses and qualifications. Genecom is excited to announce that IKT has recognised Genecom as a provider of best practice Knowledge Transfer training and development for the supply of KT relevant courses.
BBSRC-Royal Society of Edinburgh Fellowships
These fellowships provide:
- one years salary for scientists wanting to develop the commercial potential of their BBSRC-funded research
- business training to help fellows develop their business plans
- Access to a great network of mentors and people who are experienced in life sciences commercialisation
People who have been there before include Dr. John March, CEO of BigDNA Ltd, one of the fastest growing life-science companies in Scotland
Interested?
e-mail business.unit@bbsrc.ac.uk or call 01793413275
www.royalsoced.org.uk
Genecom at the University of Dundee
On 24th March, Genecom teamed up with Marks and Clerk and Generic Skills and the College of Art Science and Engioneering at the University of Dundee as part of the Colleges EPSRC 'Inspiring Innovation initiative' Students learned from Dr Steve Parkes, Star Dundee Ltd, Colin MacDonald, Studio Manager at Real Time Worlds Ltd, Paul Farley, Tag Games and Graeme Malcolm at M Squared Lasers about their inspirations, drivers and motivators. Sandy McKinnon of Pentech Ventures a leading Venture Capital investor in software, internet, telecom and computer games talked about the current climate for investment. In the afternoon, Genecom and Maureen Kinsler of Marks and Clerk led a workshop on IP management finished off as has become usual with Patricks' infamous 'Who Wants to Be An Entrepreneur?' game.
Inspiring Innovation
On March 17th, we were pleased to co-host the popular business speaker, Mike Southon, co-author of numerous business guides including the 'Beermat Entrepreneur', the 'Boardroom Entrepreneur', 'Finance on a Beermat' and others, to Moredun. I think that Mike is a great motivational speaker and most of those that saw him agreed with me although the plastic guitar made a few look twice! Mike's first words to me when confronted with "how can I encourage entrepreneurship among our scientists" were "if they don't want to be an entrepreneur, then they don't need to be". He then went on to rehearse his arguments on 'it's the team that matters' introoducing me to his Beermat Cornerstones concept which I'm now happy to share whenever I teach young scientists asking me how they can translate their science into business whilst keeping up the day job? Thanks to Professor Tim Skerry, University of Sheffield and CEO of Medella Therapeutics, the ubiquitous Dr. John March, CEO Big DNA Ltd and Eric Hunter for showing us how different personalities can succedd in the business environment and how they fitted with the roles Mike advocates are important to develop a successful business.
Yoodoo.biz
Yoodoo is a new website that claims to "provide all you need to know to get started, tools to build your plan and help from lots of people just like you if you're interested in or curious about business". In the beta mode, Yoodoo is fast and easy to use and based on a video format incorporating easy to use explanations of new terminology It’s fun, it’s free and it works.Broken down into episodes that start with the basics, can any one run a business? can I turn my idea into business? finding customers, time management, where's the pain? accounting, finding a mentor, business is a people business, marketing, sales, the elevator pitch, PR leadership and money, Yoodoo looks like it's going to be an excellent tool. It's like the video's you can find on this site but organised into a hugely clever user interface (come on Bill, get your finger out!)Each episode finishes with a short test of what you've learned (what a voice!) Recommended