It’s been a busy few weeks and one of the reasons for it has been that I’ve recently taken part in an entrepreneurship competition.
I attended a three day workshop, where me and my team were given training and guidance on innovation and how to commercialise research. At the end of the three-day workshop, teams present and pitch their ideas for an imaginary environmental start-up company in competition with each other. I wrote a blog post on the whole experience for my lab blog (http://www.geomagnetism.org/, apologies for the shameless plug!), to which I also make regular contributions. I’ve attached a link to the post about the entrepreneurship competition here.
Commercialisation of research may not be an area of interest to all of our readers, so that’s why I’ve chosen not to include the full post here. However, the post very nicely introduces another post that I’m preparing, which I hope will go live in the next couple of weeks: Making the most of your PhD. In that post, I’m going to explore how, although the main focus of a PhD is undoubtedly the research you are conducting, there are lots of opportunities out there for you to maximise the skills you can gain during the PhD process. Like I say, keep tuned to the blog in the next couple of weeks for more on that front!
