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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/funding/available/postgrad/advanced/yesSlide4
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
Support sessions here (provisionally end Sept – early 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 attend
*
EPSRC Funded Students have to be paid forSlide6
Eligibility
All research students & research staff
Researching Bioscience or Environmental Science
Masters students one per team must be here in December
2016Slide7
YES Dates
May
27
th
Application DeadlineAugust 3
rd
Briefing
Session in
NottinghamSeptember Food, Nutrition & Wellbeing (Unilever,
Colworth)October Environment / Chemistry YES (Nottingham)October Biomedical YES (GSK Stevenage)October Biotechnology YES (Manchester)November Biosciecne
YES (Edinburgh)November Plant, Microbe / Environment (Syngeta
, Reading)
December 5th
Finals
in LondonSlide8
How much will
you have to do?Slide9
Residential Workshop/Competition over three days
Day 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 presentationDay 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 idea
Who you intend to sell toSome sense of production costsAwareness 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 memberSlide12
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
2015 Head Lice Treatment
2011
Using
yeast to produce high value fragrance components
2010 Nitrogen
f
ixing bacteria fertilizer pellets
2008 Vegetarian Omega-3 oil from food industry waste2006 GM Plants that reduce a slug’s appetite
2002 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 assayYour 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 really
http://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
Previous Participants
Matt Wilcox – Research Associate (Newcastle)Frida Ponthan – Contract Research,
Epistem
Ltd. (Manchester)
Emma Kirkpatrick - Clinical Trials Co-ordinator (Southampton)Paul Keane – Regulatory Scientist at Roche (Hertfordshire)Richard Hodgett - Lecturer in Business Analytics and Decision Science (Leeds)Mike
Batey - Senior
Business Development
Manager at Waters (Manchester)Slide15
SummaryIt’s not easy but doesn’t have to take up
too much time and you get a great sense of achievementYou learn a lot of valuable skills that you don’t get elsewhere.It’s completely free
If you’re not sure you want to stay in Academia it helps see what else is out there!