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Target Audience: Anyone across the university who is interested in developing the mindset and skills to become an entrepreneur or is in the early stages of business development.

This is a live - online session.

Course Description;

Interested in becoming an entrepreneur?  Thinking about developing a micro business or looking for an opportunity?  This session explores how to find inspiration and explore areas of opportunity of innovation and start to seed a fledgling innovative idea or business.  All you need to know from a practical point of view with lots of tips and insights from an experienced entrepreneur.

This course is aimed at beginners who are interested in considering an entrepreneurial enterprise of any size.  You may or may not have an idea yet or you might have a fully developed business idea, the aim is to develop an understanding of innovation in terms of identifying areas of opportunity and taking the business idea through the business process within the university and also engaging with external funding. Practical and applied, this session offers insights drawn from lived professional experience of digital innovation and business growth.

Course Outcomes/Objectives;

• What is innovation?
• Areas of Opportunity
• New Knowledge
• Feasibility
• Make the Leap
• Sandbox time
• Funding innovation
• Intellectual Property
• Copyright, Patents
• Design Rights
• Digital Businesses
• Transiting from innovation.
• Invention through to concept and confidentiality agreements
• Developing and registering the prototype.

Accessibility;

We are committed to ensuring our events and courses are accessible to all staff:

For online activity:

• The session will take place on Teams
• Auto-captions will be enabled
• There will be audience participation but it is optional.
• You can keep your camera off
• You are asked to attend the whole session
• There will be a break of 15mins
• The session is relaxed – this means you can stretch, move around, stim etc.
• Digital copies of resources will be emailed to participants in advance of delivery upon request.
• Please contact osdu-equity@strath.ac.uk to discuss any further access requirements

Prerequisites

Cancellation Policy

When applying for a course, you should note that there will be a £50* charge to your Department / School if you do not attend your place on the course. There will be no charge as long as you cancel your booked place before the event or notify our staff at osdu@strath.ac.uk that you can no longer attend.

A Department / School is welcome to send someone else in your place if they wish without incurring a charge, providing that person has the necessary prerequisites for the course. In the case of courses split over more than one day, you are expected to attend ALL parts of the course.

*This is the standard charge for cancellation or non-attendance of a course of 1-day duration or less. For some courses, there may be a higher cancellation charge and if this is the case you will be advised of this at the time of booking.