“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 Networking
Date: Monday, 24th June 2019 Time: 16:30 – 18:30 Venue: The Square Café, St John’s Innovation Centre
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 […]
Humanise your tech: UX specialist to talk killer design strategy
St John’s Innovation Centre is hosting the fifth in a series of Merlin ICT interactive workshops aimed at researchers, post-docs, early-stage founders and SMEs to accelerate the growth of their ventures on their way to successful commercialization. “Interpreting the Customer and UX” workshop will be held on 22 January 2019 with key themes exploring innovation […]
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.
MERLIN ICT project kicks off with LEAN STARTUP workshop
CALL FOR ICT RESEARCHERS, POST-DOCS, SMEs and START-UPS: Apply for fully funded, market-driven R&D strategy innovation programme. 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 a MERLIN project, funded by the European Union under the Horizon 2020 programme? […]