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Impact Assessment Project for UCL's Entrepreneurship Provision. Programme Director and impact project leader Tim Barnes from UCL Advances.

This one-day course is aimed at UCL Entrepreneurs and covers how to exploit research to launch a high-tech Start-up, using students’ own resources and minimal funding.

The increased emphasis on entrepreneurship facilitated by the additional funding from EPSRC aligns closely with UCL’s policy on researcher development, and has enabled the creation of a new and innovative programme of activities for research students.

This is a brief summary of the organisational model that we have adopted in order to work more closely with Schools, Faculties and Departments and 'partner' with them in understanding and providing for the needs of their particular staff in a ‘bespoke’ way where appropriate. This positions us better to target our resource towards meeting real needs, while striving for enhanced alignment between UCL’s research strategy and individual aspirations. This new model also enables us to work more closely in partnership with other key people deployed at a Faculty or Department level, such as Research Facilitators, Research Leaders, HR Consultants, Faculty Managers etc.

Increasing size and complexity of research projects means increasing need for effective collaborations - across the ICR, with other academic organisations, and with Industry. This workshop will look at some of the key challenges and the practical steps needed to allow successful collaborations – whether at individual, team or Institute level.

This is a wide ranging study of existing and past post-graduates of Birkbeck College in order to assess whether our Skills Training Strategy (inplace since 2003) has had an impact upon researcher behaviour.

A business challenge model for training in business awareness and innovation delivered in the format of a social entrepreneurship competition. Running over a 4 week period participants followed a mandatory programme of training in enterprise-related topics covering the phases involved from development of the original idea to presenting a business plan to potential investors. The format for the final was a Dragon’s Den style pitch to a panel of judges.

A two day event in collaboration with Young Enterprise London designed around the focus on entrepreneurship within a research context.