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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: 568242

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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!