From PhD to Innovator – Online Workshop
- Digitale Veranstaltung
- Workshop
Awaken your entrepreneurial spirit! In a workshop by Young Entrepreneurs in Science (YES), participants explore their entrepreneurial potential. Together with other PhD students and postdocs from different disciplines and guided by experienced coaches, they will learn how to turn their doctoral thesis into a business idea and finally a company, how Design Thinking can help them and how to convince an expert jury of their idea in a pitch. The workshop is free of charge and requires no previous knowledge. The YES Workshop series is supported by the Center for Entrepreneurship & Transfer (CET) of TU Dortmund University.
YES have developed a curriculum that reflects the main points of the workshop and at the same time takes sufficient screen breaks into account. The workshop will be held in English in order to allow access for international PhD students and postdocs of the universities.
DAY 1: How much startup is in your doctoral thesis?
Patricipants will find out what it means to be an entrepreneur, discover their entrepreneurial skills and meet our role models.
- Introduction: Entrepreneurship and meet the role models
- Ideation: From research to business idea
- Prototyping: Test your product for its critical function
DAY 2: Iterate & Pitch
On day 2, the participants will present their prototype to an audience and learn how to convince others of their idea and personality. For business insights, an intrapreneur from Evonik will answer questions.
- Iteration: Test your prototype and apply feedback
- Pitch: Practice presenting your idea on the digital stage
- Innovation and intrapreneurship: Insights into a German commercial enterprise.
For more information and to register, visit www.youngentrepreneursinscience.com.
The application for the workshop is open until April 27.
More information about the Center for Entrepreneurship & Transfer (CET) of TU Dortmund University (only in German).