“The Perils of Early Stage Commercialisation”: Podcast
St John’s Innovation Centre is delighted to share a hands-on Merlin ICT podcast with Dr Uday Phadke discussing the key stages of the researchers’ commercialisation journey. Delivered by Merlin ICT, the European project supporting market-oriented researchers, SMEs and start-ups to consider the full potential of their research and to shape ideas and outputs into innovations […]
PAST EVENT: MERLIN ICT Co-Venturing Event
MERLIN ICT Co-Venturing Event Date And Time: Mon, 8 July 2019, 15:00 – 19:00 Venue: St John’s Innovation Centre
PAST EVENT: MERLIN ICT Networking
Date: Monday, 24th June 2019 Time: 16:30 – 18:30 Venue: The Square Café, St John’s Innovation Centre
PAST EVENT – Workshop #7 LEAN HARDWARE
Are you a researcher wanting to exploit your ICT research results and have you considered them as a spin-off, patent or licence? Are you an ICT start-up looking to bring a new idea or process to market? Have you been working hard on developing new ground-breaking technologies and disruptive services, but when it comes to […]
PAST EVENT – Co-Venturing and Open Innovation
Welcome to Merlin ICT Meet-Up #1 – ‘Co-Venturing and Open Innovation: Explore new ways to build commercial partnerships’ We’re delighted to announce the first in a series of Merlin ICT meet-upswith a hands-on, problem-solving approach to help researchers, post-docs and early-stage businesses explore paths to market for their R&D projects and new ways to create value. We […]
PAST EVENT – Workshop #5: INTERPRETING THE CUSTOMER & UX
Date: 22nd January 2019 Time: 9:30 – 13:30 (Lunch provided) Venue: St John’s Innovation Centre, Cowley Road, Cambridge, UK, CB4 0WS Are you a researcher wanting to exploit your ICT research results and have you considered them as a spin-off, patent or licence? Are you an ICT start-up looking to bring a new idea or […]
New event to help entrepreneurs turn users into customers
Building on the success of the MERLIN ICT Cambridge workshop ‘Entrepreneurial Mindset’ with David Gill as a guest speaker exploring principles of effectuation as an approach to entrepreneurship, the team at The Centre is inviting researchers, post-docs, SMEs and start-ups to the fifth event in a series, ‘Interpreting the Customer and UX’ on 22nd January […]
UX strategist to share how to find customers for innovative technologies
St John’s Innovation Centre is delighted to welcome Dr Anna Mieczakowski as a guest speaker to the third event in a series of interactive business workshops aimed at researchers, start-ups and SMEs who want to take their ideas to market. Customer Discovery is a third fully funded workshop delivered under the MERLIN (Methodologies for […]
PAST EVENT: Workshop #2 BUSINESS MODEL CANVAS
Date: 19th June 2018 Venue: St John’s Innovation Centre, Cowley Road Cambridge, UK, CB4 0WS
PAST EVENT: Workshop #1 LEAN STARTUP
Held at St John’s Innovation Centre on 24th April 2018, the LEAN STARTUP is dedicated to the lean start-up methodology and learn about key techniques designed to create fast-growing ventures.