Could you be our next company creator?

Researchers at Durham, Newcastle, Northumbria and Sunderland Universities are invited to apply for the third cohort of Future Founders – a fantastic in-depth training opportunity designed for academics to embrace enterprise opportunities from their research.

Have you got product, service or license opportunities in mind right now, or want to develop the commercial potential of your research in future?

Find out more and apply by 15 February 2021.

You’ll be signing up to eight half-day online workshops which will build your entrepreneurial capability and accelerate your idea development.

The workshops, delivered by innovation and venturing specialists, Viadynamics, cover:

• Diagnosing opportunities and exploring the market
• Accelerating development and de-risking opportunities
• Business planning and business building
• Enterprise financing and fund-raising