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and Environment YES Young Entrepreneurs Schemes Explained Which Competition Environment YES is for researchers working in natural environmental sciences the science needed to provide solutions to the global environmental challenges that the world is facing today and will face in the future ID: 144569

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Slide1

Biotechnology and Environment YES

Young Entrepreneurs SchemesExplainedSlide2

Which Competition?

Environment YES

is for researchers working in natural environmental sciences the science needed to provide solutions to the global environmental challenges that the world is facing today and will face in the future

Climate system, Biodiversity, Sustainable use of natural resources,

Earth system science Natural hazards, Environment, Pollution and human health

Biotechnology YES

is for researchers working in Bioscience

The BBSRC remit is wide and covers basic science in Plants, Microbe and Animals including Humans, Technologies that underpin practical solutions to major challenges such as climate change, food security, healthier ageing, and the control of infectious diseases would all fit well Slide3

Information

http://www.ncl.ac.uk/fms/postgrad/skills/enterprise.htm

http

://

www.ncl.ac.uk/careers/riseup

http://www.biotechnologyyes.co.uk/

http://www.nerc.ac.uk/using/schemes/yes/intro.asp

Slide4

Aim:-

to prepare an oral business plan presentation for

a “hypothetical" company.

You

can do all the work there

– but it’s unlikely you will

win

4 Support sessions here (

provisionally 26

th

Sept – 15

th Oct)

Competition starts

with regional heats over 3 days (2 nights residential)Win the regional heat (2 places) and progress to national finalsSlide5

How much does it cost?

To you it is

FREE

a deposit is required but this can be covered by the Graduate School NB the deposit will be recovered if you do not attendSlide6

Eligibility

All research students & research staffResearching Bioscience or Environmental Science

Masters students one per team must be here in December

2012Slide7

YES Dates

Application for

2012

Entries  

27 May

Briefing Session

@ Nottingham 6 September

Plant, Microbial & Environmental

@

Syngenta

(Jealott's Hill) 3-5 October Southern Workshop @ Oxford 10-12 October Environment YES @?

10-12 October ?BioMedical YES @ GSK & Stevenage Bioscience Catalyst 17-19 October

Scottish YES @ Edinburgh 14-16 November

North West Workshop @ Manchester 21-23 November Final London 10 December 2012Slide8

How much will

you have to do?Slide9

Residential Workshop/Competition over three

daysDay 1 talks in morning (by patent attorneys, entrepreneurs, business plan consultants etc.)

One-to-one advice with a chosen specialist and time to work on business plan

Day 2

Again, talks in the morning by various specialists in the field

One-to-one advice and time for individual workFinal preparations of power point presentation

Day 3

Presentations by each group to an investment panel

(split into streams and one winner from each stream goes through to national final)Slide10

You should turn up with:-The ideaWho you intend to sell toSome sense of production costs

Awareness of competitorsWhat you intend to sell (product, licence)Some consideration of Intellectual Property issuesSlide11

Division of Labour

If possible teams should consist of people equally committed to the

competition

I

f

not, go into the team with your eyes open about what is expected of each member A session to get teams together on Monday 21

st

May

http://faculty-tools.ncl.ac.uk/training/book?instance_id=2018Slide12

What about the Idea

Your idea should be based on realistic science, but currently hypothetical, winning ideas tend to be good with an intrinsic flaw

2011 Using

yeast to produce high value fragrance components

2010 Nitrogen

f

ixing bacteria fertilizer pellets

2008

Vegetarian Omega-3 oil from food industry

waste

2006 GM Plants that reduce a slug’s appetite2002 winning team assumed a micro-organism has been identified with novel enzymatic activity. Newcastle ideas, peanut allergy detector, appetite suppressing chewing gum, a preventative head lice treatment, a meat spoilage detection kit, multiple diseases all in one assay

Your idea must be believable; you should be able to account for the advances in science needed to develop your imaginary technology. Slide13

The Application

Simple reallyhttp://www.nerc.ac.uk/using/schemes/yes

/

http://www.biotechnologyyes.co.uk

/

One person takes the lead Fills

in the application and send it off.

Deposit

Medical Sciences Graduate School will cover deposits for teams with FMS

Research students in, if you don’t attend we will need paid or FINANCE HOLD

For others If you send a cheque it will only be cashed if you don’t turn up.Slide14

SummaryIt’s not easy but doesn’t have to take up too much time and you get a great sense of achievement

You learn a lot of valuable skills that you don’t get elsewhere.It’s completely freeIf you’re not sure you want to stay in Academia it helps see what else is out there!