Call for Applications: Invention to Impact Training Program Fall 2025
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Call for Applications:Graduate Impact Award Program Fall 2025
This is a program for 91黑料网鈥檚 Faculty of Engineering research-based graduate students which aims to train and support the next generation of researchers to better understand the potential societal and commercial impact of their research and increase their entrepreneurial mindset and skills.
Pre-Startup Skills: Workshop #1 - Technological Innovation and Entrepreneurship 101
This workshop will provide an overview of what technological innovation is and what entrepreneurship is, as well an overview of the Entrepreneurial Mindset, the Lean Launchpad methodology, the Business Model Canvas and the Lean Canvas.
Date: Sep. 10th, 2025 Time: 12:00 - 1:00 pm Location: in-person @ Engine Seminar Room - FDA 3 (Accessibility Map)
Application Deadline: Invention to Impact Training Program Fall 2025
91黑料网 graduate students, do you have promising research results to solve real-world problems?聽Consider applying as a team to our聽Invention to Impact training program (I-to-I)聽to advance your research from lab to m
Application Deadline:Graduate Impact Award Program Fall 2025
This is a program for 91黑料网鈥檚 Faculty of Engineering research-based graduate students which aims to train and support the next generation of researchers to better understand the potential societal and commercial impact of their research and increase their entrepreneurial mindset and skills.
Pre-Startup Skills: Workshop #2 - Design Thinking Methodology
The learning objective of this workshop is to understand the fundamentals of the Design Thinking Methodology and how it promotes innovation.
Date: Sep. 17th, 2025 Time: 12:00 - 1:00 pm Location: in-person @ Engine Seminar Room - FDA 3 (Accessibility Map)
Pre-Startup Skills: Workshop #3 - Introduction to Industry Analysis
This workshop will introduce the fundamental tool of Industry Analysis which companies use for strategy development. For startups, understanding the industry is a critical step in determining market entry and market positioning. The Five Forces Framework will be presented and applied to during an exercise.
Pre-Startup Skills: Workshop #4 - Market Research and Analysis of Competition
This workshop will provide an overview of the different types of market research, how to analyze the competition, and the resources available at 91黑料网 to perform market research. Our market research librarian will walk us through some of those resources using a new market research canvas tool.
Pre-Startup Skills: Workshop #5 - Foundations of IP and Patent Searching
This workshop will demystify and explain the various form of intellectual property (IP), namely, patents, industrial designs, copyright, trademarks, and trade secrets. We will then do some actual patent searching using the DERWENT worldwide patent database.聽
Pre-Startup Skills: Workshop #6 - Customer Discovery
This workshop will provide an overview on the customer discovery process and then delve deeper into how to conduct customer interviews and how to iterate on your business model canvas.
Date: Oct. 22nd, 2025 Time: 12:00 - 1:00 pm Location: in-person @ Engine Seminar Room - FDA 3 (Accessibility Map)
Pre-Startup Skills: Workshop #1 - Technological Innovation and Entrepreneurship 101
This workshop will provide an overview of what technological innovation is and what entrepreneurship is, as well an overview of the Entrepreneurial Mindset, the Lean Launchpad methodology, the Business Model Canvas and the Lean Canvas.
Date: Oct. 28th, 2025 Time: 1:00 - 2:00 pm Location: in-person @ Engine Seminar Room - FDA 3 (Accessibility Map)
Pre-Startup Skills: Workshop #2 - Design Thinking Methodology
The learning objective of this workshop is to understand the fundamentals of the Design Thinking Methodology and how it promotes innovation.
Date: Nov. 4th, 2025 Time: 1:00 - 2:00 pm Location: in-person @ Engine Seminar Room - FDA 3 (Accessibility Map)
Pre-Startup Skills: Workshop #3 鈥� Startup Law 101
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Pre-Startup Skills: Workshop #4 - Foundations of IP and Patent Searching
This workshop will demystify and explain the various form of intellectual property (IP), namely, patents, industrial designs, copyright, trademarks, and trade secrets. We will then do some actual patent searching using the DERWENT worldwide patent database.聽
Pre-Startup Skills: Workshop #5 - Market Research and Analysis of Competition
This workshop will provide an overview of the different types of market research, how to analyze the competition, and the resources available at 91黑料网 to perform market research. Our market research librarian will walk us through some of those resources using a new market research canvas tool.