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“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 […]

Peter Hiscocks joins the Investment War Stories Panel

“I consider enterprise and entrepreneurship to be the engines of growth in the economy and therefore super important for society as a whole.” Peter Hiscocks, Fellow in Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management, Cambridge Judge Business School   We’re delighted to announce that Peter Hiscocks, Fellow in Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management at Cambridge Judge Business School, will […]

PAST EVENT: Investment War Stories

MERLIN ICT Workshop #9: Investment War Stories for Angels and Entrepreneurs Date And Time: Thursday, 19 September 2019; 16:00 – 18:30 BST Venue: St John’s Innovation Centre This interactive afternoon session will provide an insight to The Invested Investor and new rules for start-ups, scale-ups and angel investing.

Speakers announced for new Merlin ICT IP workshop

We are delighted to confirm Esther Ford and Simon Portman of Marks & Clerk as our Guest Speakers for the 8th workshop in the MERLIN ICT series dedicated to Intellectual Property. Marks & Clerk has long been recognised as one of the leading intellectual property firms across the globe, with eight offices across the UK […]

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 […]

Raspberry Pi Co-Creator to speak at lean hardware event

We’re delighted to announce Pete Lomas, Co-Creator & Trustee of Raspberry Pi and Director of Engineering at Norcott Technologies, as our guest speaker for the seventh MERLIN workshop dedicated to lean hardware on 22 May 2019 at St John’s Innovation Centre. This interactive workshop will take delegates through the phases of development of an electronic […]

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 […]