Bookmark and Share

Young Researcher Entrepreneurship Bootcamp


Technical University of Denmark


General course objectives:
The course “Young Researcher Entrepreneurship Bootcamp” for doctoral students and early career researchers will help you develop your entrepreneurial knowledge, skills and mindset. The aim with the course is to grow your entrepreneurial mindset to benefit your current research and future career. Whether your future career lies in academia, working for a large-scale organisation or running your own business, the course can help prepare you. The course is specifically targeting issues related with entrepreneurship and the establishment of university based startups within the fields of AI, data science and computer science. This applies to the use of AI models in practical production, commercialization of software and collaboration in relation to IP with the university. The course is developed by DTU in close collaboration with other universities and relevant key players in computer science and university-based entrepreneurship, including the DIREC, the AI Pioneer Centre and Venture Cup. Furthermore, the course will be closely related to the Startup Community at Digital Tech Summit where participants from the course can pitch their own pre-startup cases.

Learning objectives:
A student who has met the objectives of the course will be able to:
  • Develop an entrepreneurial mindset that cuts across academic and business cultures.
  • Understand the fundamentals of creating a novel startup (how to develop a research project or idea to a business opportunity) while working on hypothetical case studies in groups or on their own preconceived startup idea.
  • Learn and discuss some of the basics of MLOps as a prerequisite for building an AI startup (Bridging Machine Learning, DevOps and Data Engineering). Students will be introduced to and discuss a set of practices that aims to deploy and maintain machine learning models in production reliably and efficiently.
  • Learn and explain how having an entrepreneurial mindset can benefit how you approach your current research and future career.
  • Learn key concepts for early-stage enterprise/startup building, including ideation, business modelling, and startup building, prototyping, testing, building networks, sales, marketing and raising finance.
  • Significantly improve their business knowledge and the professional skills needed to start a business; and in adition develop an entrepreneurial mind-set as well as transferable skills such as collaborative working, innovative thinking, and presentation skills and communicate complex commercialization projects.
  • Exaplin intellectual property (IP) based startups, including software IP, Open Source etc.
  • Understand, interact, network and navigate within the innovation ecosystem (investors, venture builders, suppliers and other stakeholders and other startups) through peer-learning and role-play exercises. This includes working with tech-trans officers, business developers and other IPR professionals and university administration.

Contents:
The course is divided into three steps: 1. Develop your entrepreneurial knowledge, skills and mindset. This one-day workshop is for doctoral students and early career researchers who want to learn more about the benefits of thinking entrepreneurially. You will learn the fundamentals of creating a novel startup while working on hypothetical case studies in groups. You will also learn how having an entrepreneurial mindset can benefit how you approach your current research and future career. 2. Learn how to turn an idea into an enterprise. This one-day workshop delves deeper into business language and entrepreneurial thinking. You will learn about key concepts for early-stage enterprise creation, including ideation, prototyping, testing, building networks, sales, marketing, and raising finance. This workshop will also help you develop an entrepreneurial mind-set as well as transferable skills such as collaborative working, innovative thinking, and presentation skills. 3. Build your enterprise - management and negotiation skills. This one-day workshop is for doctoral students and early career researchers who are considering starting a business but are unsure how to get started. This workshop will help you significantly improve your business knowledge and the professional skills needed to start a business. Sessions one and two focus on company administration and financial planning for intellectual property (IP)-rich startups. Sessions three and four explore how to have conversations with investors, suppliers and other stakeholders through role-play exercises.

Back
Course organizer
Kim , Gitte Storm Hougaard
Place/Venue
Anker Engelunds Vej 1
City
2800 Kgs. Lyngby
Country
Denmark
Workload
2.5
Link
http://kurser.dtu.dk/course/02980