This online course is run by the Researcher Academy
The Researcher Academy courses are very popular and the majority are run in both semesters to give you the opportunity to attend at a time of the year that suits you. Semester 1 courses will be available for booking from the second week of October and Semester 2 courses from the second week of February.
Target Audience:Description:
This course consists of two 1.5-hour webinars in the same day (10:30-12:00 and 14:00-15:30). Participants must attend both webinars to gain the training point associated with the course. The first webinar will describe the theory of commercialisation and the various ways that research ideas can move from the research-based environment into the commercial setting. The second webinar will describe practical concepts within commercialisation and provide examples of previous ideas, discussing their stories and how they were made into a commercial product.
Aims/ Objectives:
This course is designed for postgraduate research students and any staff with an interest in commercialisation. The principal aim is to help researchers understand the process of taking a science or technology-based idea to commercial exploitation.
After this course you will:
Our webinars/ online courses are very popular, especially in the current period and we are experiencing large volumes of people on our waiting lists.
Please do let us know if you would like to cancel your place on this course so we can offer your place to another delegate.
Please note, attendances for webinars/ online courses will still be recorded and corresponding training points, when shown as available, will be awarded.
Webinar Access Instructions
This session may be recorded. If a recording is kept of the session, then please note, that it may be made available to the wider University of Nottingham researcher community.
This webinar will be run via Adobe Connect. You will need a headset or speakers for the webinar and we recommend that you join fifteen minutes before the webinar is due to start so that you can test them. You won’t need to use your microphone, any questions can be asked via the chat.
Make sure that your speakers or headset are plugged in and switched on before you click on the link to open the webinar. Log in by typing your name into the 'guest' box (not 'registered user'). It is not possible to log in with your university username and password -this will not work.
If you are prompted to update your flash player, or download and install any ‘add-ins’ please do this. If you run into any problems with your speakers or headset go to 'Meeting' >’Audio setup wizard' and follow the steps displayed.
Please note that this course will consist of two webinars, run on the same day. In order to get the training point associated with this course, you must attend both webinars. Webinar 1 will be 10:30-12:00 and webinar 2 will be 14:00-15:30. If you can not attend both webinars, please cancel your place on this course.
There will be a break between 12 and 2PM.