Welcome to the PhD course From Research to Business!
From Research to Business is a PhD course on how to commercialize research.
To transform research into business is not always an obvious path. For one, the rationales behind successful research and successful commercialization differ. The value-proposition, the stakeholders, and the type of resources also differ. However much more research could be and ought to be turned into entrepreneurial endeavors or commercialized in other ways.
At the end of this course the students will have gained both knowledge and experience in how to identify and assess possibilities in commercializing research.
- 20 PhD students with big variation in their research from 12 Swedish universities are participating.
- The students will put 400 hours each into the course, of those hours are 150 scheduled within workshops.
- The students meet five times during the academic year 2009/2010.
- The students have the opportunity to work in a local entrepreneurial environment, and they all have mentors from VINNOVA.
- During the course the students meet teachers from leading schools, such as Stanford University and London Business School.
- The course is developed and organized by ESBRI in close collaboration with VINNOVA.
- The academic year 2009/2010 of From Research to Business is financed by VINNOVA.
