Spin-off Competence Lab (9)

 

The aim of this task was to improve and support an entrepreneurial mindset and entrepreneurial competences among scientists in a two-step process to increase and exploit the potential of entrepreneurial ideas and initiatives. The first step was achieved by the development of a competence laboratory dedicated to early-stage researchers and offering virtual training – on […]

On 4th and 6th July two sessions of the webinar of the Spin Off Competence Lab about “Design Thinking – Solving Problems with new ideas” were led by Katharina Knapp and Leve Freiwald.   The speakers have prepared a webinar consisting of two fully and complementary practical sessions, where participants have been able to work […]

On 25th January the second webinar of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) within the Spin Off Competence Lab was about Trademarks © led by Justyna Pawlowska. Justyna started the presentation sharing with the participants the challenge of protecting new areas of inventions like: Informatic programs, electronic design, technical ethic and technical effects, detection process of junk […]

On 24th January a webinar of the Spin Off Competence Lab about “Business Model” was led by Raúl Estrada.   Estrada starts with an interesting introduction talking about what is a business model and gives to the participant a lot of resources to learn about business models. Also Raúl goes through the presentation analysis of […]

On 10th January a second opportunity to attend to the lesson of the Spin-off Competence Lab about Speculative Design was led by Prof. Ivica Mitrović from University of Split.    Ivica gave us an interactive presentation full of videos, news and examples about the state of Speculative Design and the possible future paths for the […]

On 23th November the last session of the Spin-off Competence Lab 2022 was led by Margaret Mangion from University of Malta.   Margaret presented a very participative and useful session about how to train our creativity in order to turn problems into opportunities. Also reference was also be made to evaluation methods using creative thinking […]

On 11th November the third session of the Spin-off Competence Lab was led by Prof. Ivica Mitrović from University of Split.    Ivica presented an entertainment lecture about the state of Speculative Design practice via personal projects and SpeculativeEdu project experiences and the possible future paths for the practice.   Speculative design emerged around 20 […]

On 9th November the second session of the Spin-off Competence Lab was led by Prof. Russell Smith (University of Malta).   All start-up businesses will need early finance to cover the deficits that arise prior to the new enterprise becoming profitable.   Since start-up rarely have products or services for sale at the outset, it […]

On 20th October the first session of the Spin-off Competence Lab was held by Raúl Estrada.   The session was about the Lean Canva Methodology for early researchers who have interest in entrepreneurship apart from their scientist aspirations. Estrada explained in a very entertaining and easy way the important steps about how our students should […]