Ways to boost your research career and income

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Explore opportunities and support available from Edinburgh Innovations to promote the commercialisation of your ideas and knowledge exchange activities.

These opportunities can offer you:

·      additional skills and expertise to increase your career options

·      additional income for your personal or research use

·      increase the impact of your research on the world

·      increase your research contacts in private and public sectors

Hear directly from Kelly Fleetwood and Alice Smith (both early career researchers, ECRs) who will share their experience of Edinburgh Innovations support to facilitate engagement with industry.

The webinar will split into parallel breakout sessions, where you can explore the services provided by your dedicated Edinburgh Innovations team. Please register for your chosen breakout session and you will automatically be registered for the joint session.

Blackboard Collaborate links to join the event and your selected breakout session will be shared closer to the date.

Event Agenda

Joint session 13:50 - 14:40

13:50 - 14:00 Pre-event login

14:00 - 14:10 Siddharthan Chandran (Academic Champion)    

Siddharthan Chandran will begin the webinar by encouraging ECRs to innovate their research via commercial opportunities. He has personally engaged in consultancy and multiple spinout ventures.

14:10 – 14:20 Case study 1 - Kelly Fleetwood

As a consultant, Kelly Fleetwood produced a statistical report for a health technology assessment. This kept up skills gained during her previous research, gave her influential contacts and funded her attendance at more conferences.

14:20 – 14:30 Case study 2 - Alice Smith

Alice Smith formed a spin-out company Speak Unique which markets a synthetic voice product from technology developed during a collaborative research project. Her career benefits from the new skills and experience of forming a company. Funding has helped to develop the technology beyond the scope of the original research project, allowing more lives to be improved.

14:30 – 14:40 Andrea Taylor - EI Champion

Andrea Taylor will introduce your dedicated Neuroscience Team who have a breadth and depth of expertise to support you at every step along your commercial and translational journey. She will give an overview of what support EI can offer.

 

Parallel breakout sessions 14:45 - 15:00

The webinar then splits into parallel breakout sessions where you can deep dive into the breadth of services Edinburgh Innovations can provide.

• Jane Redford, Business Development: your first contact - As first point of contact for Edinburgh Innovations within Edinburgh Neuroscience, find out how I can help you to translate or commercialise your work and ideas.
• Gurman Pall and Tracey Campbell, Consultancy and Business Services - Consultancy is a knowledge exchange activity, we will discuss how your research experience can be a useful starting point to connect with industry, generate extra income and boost your research profile.
• Lysimachos Zografos, Wellcome Entrepreneur-in-Residence - We will discuss how to identify and develop early stage translational ideas into projects that create an impact on human health and wellbeing and have commercialisation potential.
• David Pritchard, Technology Transfer - In this interactive session we will discuss how to obtain protection (Intellectual Property) for discoveries/Inventions and how technologies can be made available through vehicles such as licensing.
• Barbara Blaney, Enterprise Services - Enterprise Services provides practical startup and business advice at every stage of stage of setting up a company – we work with staff to turn innovations into spinout opportunities. We’ll discuss our approach to helping you understand the commercial potential and support available for your business.
• Claire Pembleton, Commercial Skills - In this interactive session we will explore skills and tools for engaging with industry.

Meeting wrap up 15:00 - 15:15

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