Events
Throughout the Semester MSEC run a number of activities and events activities designed to encourage and staff and students to be enterprising and to be able to turn ideas into something real.
Venture Further
Got an idea for a business? Fancy £25,000 to get it started? Venture Competition Website.
Enterprise taster sessions and guest speakers
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Thinking of being your own boss?
Wednesday 7 February - 12.00-13.00 Roscoe 2.3
An introduction to starting up your own business, hints, tips
and things to set you thinking.
Tim Jones - tim.jones@manchester.ac.uk
Creating ideas
Thursday 8 February - 13.00-14.00 Renold G001
How to generate lots of ideas
using some simple techniques.
Dr Carol Birchmore - carol.birchmore@manchester.ac.uk
Identifying the enterprise opportunity
Friday 9 February - 12.00-14.00 Roscoe 1.22
How to spot the opportunity
to build your business on.
Dr Martin Henery - m.henery@manchester.ac.uk
The bio-entrepreneur
Tuesday 13 February - 12.00-13.00 Humanities Lime Grove A102
How the enterprising bio-scientist takes an idea to
market.
Dr Rob Phillips - robert.phillips@manchester.ac.uk
Patents and protecting ideas
Thursday 22 February - 12.00-13.00 Pariser E001
What does a patent protect?
How does copyright work? What use is a Trade Mark to me? Find
out how to protect your ideas in this introductory talk.
Tim Jones - tim.jones@manchester.ac.uk
Ideas workshop
Friday 23rd February - 12.00 - 13.00 Chemistry Building G.08
A workshop
to stimulate your thinking skills.
Lee Webster - lee.webster@manchester.ac.uk
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