Start your entrepreneurial journey
Thinking like an entrepreneur can maximise the impact of your research.
We’ll guide you on your entrepreneurial journey by helping you to build your network and learn the skills of an entrepreneur.
Discover more and start on your path through our entrepreneurial training programmes and webinars.
Want to showcase your cancer innovation and receive sector-wide recognition?
If you’re an enterprising UK-based researcher, translating your innovative discoveries into benefit for cancer patients, nominations for our Innovation and Entrepreneurship Awards are now open.
Training opportunities
An online course for UK-based postdocs and final year PhD students.
Benefits
You'll grow your professional network of translational researchers and learn how to
- Articulate how a translational approach to scientific research can speed up the development of new ideas to improve the lives of people living with cancer
- Describe the critical role of patients in translational research and ways of engaging with them in the process
- Define the basic knowledge and skills required in translating your research
New programmes coming in 2023
Lean Launch is a 10-week online course for UK-based postdocs and late-stage PhD students that takes the scientific method (hypothesis, test, evaluate) and applies it to business ideas, allowing you to quickly determine whether there is a market for products or services stemming from your oncology-focused research.
Benefits
- 2-day Bootcamp training teaching you how to communicate your technology to customers and develop a hypothetical business model
- 10-week market validation with weekly 1-hour coaching clinics from experts experienced in taking research ideas to market.
- 1-day online pitch training for potential customers and investors
- Access to leading experts from academia, business and investors
- Receive up to £4,000 of funding to validate commercially promising ideas in the marketplace and a pathway to a further £25,000 of ICURe funding plus follow-on funding support
New programmes coming in 2023
A training programme for junior group leaders, postdocs and PhD students. Open to all researchers interested in fighting cancer, regardless of your career stage or discipline.
Benefits
- Attend webinars and workshops on entrepreneurship, forming a company, operations, team building, market research, fundraising and other topics
- Networking events to connect with mentors and serial entrepreneurs
- Interact with scientists from different disciplines to co-develop ground-breaking new cancer therapeutic diagnostics and preventative interventions
- Receive information about funding to support your work, including grants and other non-dilutive funding, angel investment and venture capital
The training scheme is now open
I highly recommend this incredible course. Eureka not only taught me about translation but also about team science, academia, industry, and leadership
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Alessia Errico
Regional Translation Lead (London) & Entrepreneurial Programmes Lead
