In today's competitive academic landscape, research is about more than just generating knowledge—it's about creating meaningful value for communities, industries, and society.
Postgraduate research students can play an important role in enhancing the impact and value of higher education institutions to their local community and economy. They not only undertake research which has value to different groups of stakeholders external to the institution but they also represent the future academic workforce.
Our innovative program is designed to help postgraduate research students transform their groundbreaking work into tangible, impactful outcomes.
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The programme
The programme is designed to assist higher education institutions in enhancing the effectiveness of enterprise and entrepreneurship education activity for postgraduate research students.
Our unique initiative provides:
- Two intensive, interactive two-day workshops
- Tailored support to help students understand and communicate research value to others
- Personalised consultancy sessions for the institution to develop enterprise and entrepreneurship education resources which will assist students in commercialising their research
- A briefing report summarising the key outcomes.
Benefits of the programme
Students will:
- Gain insights into commercialising research
- Build enterprising behaviours and skills
- Build an entrepreneurial mindset
- Improve employability skills
- Learn to communicate research impact effectively
Institutions will have:
- Enhanced understanding of research commercialisation potential
- Improved postgraduate student training
- Compelling case studies for external assessments
- Stronger connections between academic research and societal needs