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ACCELERATE Innovation is a portfolio of initiatives to support innovative thinking and creativity for healthcare innovation.
- Entrepreneurship Skills for Researchers-
ARCHIVED: this event is now offered through UCL Innovation and Enterprise SPERO Programme.
This one-day online workshop will focus on the fundamentals of developing an entrepreneaurial mindset. It will help you heighten the impact of your research and think about the value that you are creating with/for existing and potential collaborators. Even if you don't have entrepreneurial ambitions, this workshop will help you frame the skills that you are developing so that you can apply them to widen the impact of your research and identify the support available at UCL.
It will help you:
- Start to recognise and use your enterprise skills;
- develop your own entrepeneurial thinking; and
- generate and develop enterprising ideas using tools such as the business model canvas.
By the end of the workshop, you'll be better able to:
- develop ideas that create value and make a difference to others;
- identify the relationships needed with relevent stakeholders to move an idea forward more smoothly; and
- set goals to progress your enterprising activity.
- Mentoring for Medical Innovation
Would you like to have support with navigating the challenges of medical innovation and translational research?
Would you like to be mentored by a senior innovation leader in the field?
Our new mentorship programme will provide a unique opportunity to be supported by one-on-one mentoring with leading medical innovators from CASMI - The Collaboration for the Advancement of Sustainable Medical Innovation. Expert training and resources will be provided throughout the scheme to get the most out of the experience for both mentees and mentors.
The scheme is a collaboration between ACCELERATE Translational Research Training Programme and CASMI.
For more information, check out the web page; https://www.ucl.ac.uk/school-life-medical-sciences/about-slms/office-vice-provost-health/academic-careers-office/career-schemes/accelerate/accelerate-4
- Team Challenge
This seven-week hands on training programme will see you apply knowledge and skills to develop a proposal to solve a real-life translational research challenge of your choosing in an interdisciplinary team. For example, this can be a commercial idea for a healthcare need (e.g., a new product or service) or a way of improving an existing service in a non-commercial setting (e.g., making a hospital process work more efficiently, healthcare data sharing etc.) - anything that proposes to improve healthcare.
Participants will be placed into interdisciplinary teams around shared interests. As a team, you will develop a proposal for an innovative idea that can be solved by the unique combination of skills and experiences of your team members.
At the end of the programme there will be a chance to bid for up £10,000 or non-financial support to take your team’s proposal forward. On the pilot programme, 2 out of 3 teams secured financial funding to take their idea forwards.
Target Audience: The Team Challenge is aimed at all healthcare researchers across UCL and the three UCL Biomedical Research Centres, from any discipline and background, from first year post-doctoral fellows upwards. This includes those starting to develop their own research group. Applicants will apply as individuals and be placed into teams based on shared interest.
When and where: The programme will run online. It consists of a blend of whole cohort sessions, independent teamwork sessions, and team coaching sessions with the programme facilitators. Round 2 of the programme will run from 25 October 2021 to 13 December 2021.
Apply: More information, and the sign up form, are on our webpage; https://www.ucl.ac.uk/school-life-medical-sciences/about-slms/office-vice-provost-health/academic-careers-office/career-schemes/accelerate/accelerate-6
- At UCL
- Enterprise Training Programme - provided by Innovation and Enterprise.
- MSc in Bioscience Entrepeneurship- Post-graduate taught course.
- Medical Innovation and Enterprise MSci- at UCL.
- UCL Partners events on healthcare adoption
- Beyond UCL
- AI in Healthcare online course from the Univeristy of Manchester and the NHS.
- Understanding Innovation in the Healthcare Sciences online course from the University of Manchester, Manchester Metropolitan University, MAHSE.
- The Science and Business of Biotechnology online course from MIT
- Healthcare Marketplace series of online courses from the University of Minnosota
- MDC Connects webinars from Medicines Discovery Catapult on innovative drug discovery
- Bioindustry Association (BIA)- 'Bench to Bedside' webinar series with a focus on omics, biomarkers and bilogics.
