Entrepreneurship and Innovation workshop with Dr. Marco Masia from the Technology Transfer Office

DoSChem organizes a workshop together with Dr. Marco Masia from the Technology Transfer Office (Research Services and Career Development, University of Vienna) about Entrepreneurship and Innovation.

• Registration is open till 25.10.23

• When: 06-07 November 2023, both days 9:00-17:00

• Where: Apostelgasse 23 (Institut für europäische Integrationsforschung/ U3 station Kardinal-Nagl-Platz, in the 3^rd district);  in person only;

• Target Audience: DoSChem PhD students of all stages, but recommended after the first year of your PhD; for full participation you will get 1 ECTS (soft skill workshop) and official participation certificate
• up to 20 participants

Overview of the workshop topics:

• Introduction to Entrepreneurship and Innovation
• Idea generation
• Fundamentals of Intellectual Property Rights
• Idea generation
• Minimum viable product
• Business Model canvas
• IP strategy
• Financial modeling
• Pitch

About the workshop:

Academic research in Europe is witnessing an important transition phase. As the number of PhD holders increases, it is critical to equip researchers with the talents, business skills, and entrepreneurial capacity to be competitive in the evolving markets.

With this workshop, researchers will learn fundamental methods of business innovation and hypothesis driven entrepreneurship, and how to apply these to their projects. In addition, they will acquire the knowledge and skills to communicate effectively with different audiences, including stakeholders, policy makers, other researchers, journalists, and the public. The workshop will also cover the basic elements concerning Intellectual Property Rights and IP strategy.

The workshop package is structured to teach researchers how to navigate an entrepreneurial journey - from idea generation to starting their own business, and will focus on core concepts from strategic communication. Participants will be trained in state-of-the-art techniques to foster their creativity working in teams. The workshop will focus on core concepts in capacity building and active learning, using the approach pioneered by the Harvard Business School, that is currently used by leading Business Schools worldwide.

Entrepreneurship and Innovation (univie.ac.at) (please note that the workshop dates on the website are not organized by DoSChem).

• For Registration, please send an email with your full name, gender and country of origin to dos.chem@univie.ac.at and please indicate the subject matter „Registration for the Tech Transfer Workshop 06-07 November 2023”

soft skill training Effective Scientific Writing: Process and Product held by Dr. Katherine Tiede.

Dr. Katherine Tiede has spent more than three decades working with scientists on how to communicate their research. She draws on her background in linguistics to provide scientists with tools to be able to see their writing as a reader does as well as tools to draft, write, and revise more effectively. She completed her Ph.D. at the University of Toronto and after a decade as faculty, began in 2008 to give annual seminars at various Austrian universities. 

Goals and course of the workshop

When: new date tba; 1-5pm CEST – 4 afternoon sessions (plus some homework prior and inbetween the sessions)

Where: online

Capacity/Admission: 12 participants

Target Audience: advanced DoSChem PhD students who already have some data and currently writing an article and have previously not participated in similar scientific writing courses. 1 ECTS will be given for participation (soft skills).

How to apply: Please address short your motivation for this course (max 5 sentences) outlining your professional added value of participation in this course.

All submitted abstracts will be evaluated by our management team and the priority will be given to 12 eligible students. The waiting list candidates will also be notified.

Please send an email with your full name, panel affiliation, in which year you are in and your short motivation to dos.chem@univie.ac.at and please indicate the subject matter „Application for workshop Effective Scientific Writing: Process and Product”

• Overview workshops offered by the Center for Doctoral Studies
• Courses on Well-being in Adademia
• Scientific writing (at the moment only in german), here you find some writing workshops in english

Please note that the workshop and courses from the Center for Doctoral Studies are not credited with ECTS! 

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