Are you a Future Founder? Training opportunity for academics to develop the commercial potential of research

Academics at Durham, Newcastle, Northumbria and Sunderland Universities are invited to apply for a new training opportunity.

Have you got product, service or license opportunities in mind right now, or want to develop the commercial potential of your research in future?

Future Founders is a new training offer from Northern Accelerator’s Ideas Impact Hub – specifically designed for academics to embrace enterprise opportunities from their research.

Find out more and apply for the first cohort by 20 January 2020.

You�ll be signing up to four hands-on workshops which will build your entrepreneurial capability and accelerate your idea development.

The one-day workshops, delivered by innovation and venturing specialists, Viadynamics, cover:

� Diagnosing opportunities and exploring the market
� Accelerating development and de-risking opportunities
� Business planning and business building
� Enterprise financing and fund-raising