Image DNA sequencing technology courtesy Abizar at en.wikipedia
Cambridge Enterprise is hosting an event for postdocs who are interested in getting their ideas into the marketplace, on 19 November at 6 pm at the Postdoc Centre in Cambridge.
Cambridge Enterprise’s Investment Manager Bradley Hardiman will provide advice on commercialising University research, including raising investment, and will discuss the financial support and mentoring that Cambridge Enterprise can provide to researchers.
Bradley has 13 years’ experience commercialising university research, which has given him a wide appreciation of different technologies, industry sectors and methods of commercialisation.
The event will be held in collaboration with the Entrepreneurial Postdocs of Cambridge (EPOC), a group founded by postdoctoral researchers at the University to create awareness of entrepreneurial opportunities, support members in their pursuit of entrepreneurial careers, and foster a multidisciplinary network of entrepreneurial postdocs within the University.
Cambridge Enterprise has also collaborated with EPOC to run the Postdoc Business Plan Competition, the first competition of its kind specifically for Cambridge postdocs. The finale takes place on 3 December at Peterhouse College, where the finalists will pitch their ideas to the judges and the two winners of the funding prizes will be announced.
Cambridge Enterprise helps Cambridge researchers at any stage of their academic career. For example, Dr Jing Zhang co-founded Aqdot, an innovative simple method for manufacturing structures in the millimetre and nanometre range for encapsulating actives, when she was still a graduate student in the Department of Chemistry.
This story is adapted from an article written by Kasia Ladds for Cambridge Enterprise.