Entrepreneurship Week 2022 Booklet
Entrepreneurship
21 - 25 February Programme
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On behalf of the Centre for Entrepreneurship, I am delighted to present the programme of events for the University’s sixth annual, public-facing Entrepreneurship Week taking place between Monday 21 and Friday 25 February. This year’s programme features a mixture of in-person and online events that feed into all aspects of teaching, research and future career progression for students, staff and the wider community. Topics such as growth mindset, social enterprise, sales and communication skills, investment and fundraising will be covered as well as inspirational talks including an entrepreneurial masterclass from our very own Prof Alessio Ciulli from the School of Life Sciences. On the Wednesday evening we are hosting this year’s Annual Public Lecture in Entrepreneurship, where we will welcome back one of our former medical students Christopher McCann. Christopher will be sharing his entrepreneurial journey from incepting a business idea from the wards at our Ninewells campus to now, seven years later, seeing his business Current Health, a remote patient monitoring business, being acquired by US retail giant Best Buy in a deal which is thought to be Europe’s second largest digital health exit. On Friday, we have the final of our Venture new business idea competition where students, staff and graduates will be pitching for a prize fund of £41,000, a unique opportunity for you to be introduced to the wide variety of innovative ideas that are being generated at the University.
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We look forward to seeing you at the various events throughout the week, where you can register to attend at uod. ac.uk/entweek Brian McNicoll Head of Centre for Entrepreneurship
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Monday 21 11:00-11:45
Elevator Accelerator Information Session
13:30-14:30
Communication, Influence and Persuasion in Business Workshop
15:00-16:30
HealthTech, Road to Commercialisation Overview Virtual Workshop
Tuesday 22 10:00-11:00
11:30-13:00 Understanding Social Enterprise
Converge Application Workshop
Workshop
16:00-17:00 School of Life Sciences Entrepreneurial Masterclass with Alessio Ciulli Entrepreneurial Masterclass
Wednesday 23 13:00-14:00
Converge Startup Business Workshop
18:00-19:30 Lecture in Entrepreneurship with Christopher McCann, Current Health Annual Public Lecture
Thursday 24 10:00-11:00
Converge Research Commercialisation Workshop
14:00-15:00
Validating your business idea Workshop
Friday 25 10:00-11:00
Growth Mindset for Entrepreneurship Workshop
13:00-14:00 School of Art and Design Entrepreneurial Masterclass with Sabine Klaus-Carter Entrepreneurial Masterclass
16:00-18:00
Venture 2022 Pitching Final
Monday 21
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Elevator Accelerator Information Session Monday 21st February, 11-11:45am. This workshop can be attended online. Event open to staff, students & recent graduates. The Academic Accelerator serves as a launch pad for those who have ideas with real potential but need support with making the business case. Our 2022 Academic Accelerator kicks off on 6th June 2022. The intensive, free accelerator is open to current students and recent graduates (within the last two-years), staff and academics together with academic and university spin outs from our partner, University of Dundee, as well as the other higher and further educational institutes in the Tay City Region area. Successful candidates will work closely with mentors and industry experts to test, research, develop and refine their ideas, taking them from concept to viable business plans. Our information session will provide you with an overview of the programme and a comfortable space to ask any questions you may have.
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Monday 21
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Communication, Influence and Persuasion in Business – building your career and your business Monday 21st February, 1:30-2:30pm. Event open to all. This workshop can be attended either online or in-person. Attendance in person is only available for University of Dundee students and staff, with University COVID-19 guidelines followed. The founder of Sales Coach Scot, Sandy McCurdy has a passion for selling. In a long career, Sandy has held many senior roles in sales, marketing and training with global companies. He has helped many sales and customer facing teams to succeed in the harsh world of gaining and keeping customers. Later in life, he moved into enterprise facilitation helping many start-ups and growth businesses. He has worked for a number of business support organisations and for over 4 years has volunteered with Dundee’s Womens Business Station. 18 months ago he became chair of WBS. In this talk, Sandy will explain why persistence, massive patience and an awe inspiring skill set is required to win new customers. He believes that nothing happens in sales unless HE takes action. Leveraging knowledge, skills and processes, Sandy has helped businesses increase sales and profits through effective communication. Effective communication is at the heart of this session. He will explain why inspiring potential customer is much more effective than trying to manipulate them. By the end of this session, attendees will have had their eyes open about the realities of sales prospecting and the importance it plays in ensuring a business survives and thrives.
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Monday 21
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HealthTech - Road to Commercialisation Overview Monday 21st February, 3-4:30pm. Event open to all. This workshop can be attended either online or in-person. Attendance in person is only available for University of Dundee students and staff, with University COVID-19 guidelines followed. This workshop is designed to help people with health tech related business ideas understand the startup process and regulatory approvals that will be required as well as being able to line themselves up for successful and less arduous fundraising and development. This workshop will be delivered online by Aidan Petrie,Managing Partner, New England Medical Innovation Center Aidan is a founding Partner of NEMIC (New England Medical Innovation Center), New England’s Med Tech venture studio and a Fellow of the Provost at RISD, focused on intersections between user centered design and healthcare. He is a member of Cherrystone Angels and a mentor and adviser to many startups. He also co-founded the MagpieX MedTech Accelerator Fund. MagpieX provides pre-seed capital investment, along with clinical and regulatory expertise to Med Tech and Digital Health startups, through a synergistic partnership with NEMIC.
Tuesday 22
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Converge Application Workshop Tuesday 22nd February, 10-11am. This workshop can be attended either online or in-person. Attendance in person is only available for University of Dundee students and staff, with University COVID-19 guidelines followed. Event open to staff, students & recent graduates. Navigating the ups and downs of starting a new business? Converge is here to help. Designed for staff, students and recent graduates of all Scottish universities, we offer intensive business training; a dynamic network; 1-2-1 support and generous, equity-free cash prizes to springboard your idea from concept to reality. Applications for Converge Challenge the are open until Tuesday 5 April, so find out everything you need to know, including what our judges look for in a successful proposal. Our team can also give you practical hints and tips and tailored advice to help your application fly.
Tuesday 22
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Understanding Social Enterprise Tuesday 22nd February, 11:30-1pm. Event open to all. This event can be attended either online or in-person. Attendance in person is only available for University of Dundee students and staff, with University COVID-19 guidelines followed. This interactive session will cover the steps to setting up a social enterprise, deciding on the legal entity, the development of aboard. The need for a More Than Profit approach and the need for the development of multiple income streams for sustainability and growth. Kirsty Thomson is Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Circle Scotland CIC. Kirsty is a serial social entrepreneur. She is also a Company Director, Non -Exec Director and a Charity Trustee. Kirsty has a wealth of knowledge and experience working in and with charities and social enterprises for over 20 years to secure more than £13 million in funding. She understands the challenges that face grassroots organisations in terms of investment, accessing funding and demonstrating impact to attract this. She is determined to make a difference to communities across the UK and focus on a business model that is more than just profit.
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Tuesday 22
Tuesday 22nd February, 4-5pm. Event open to all. This event can be attended either online or in-person. Attendance in person is only available for University of Dundee students and staff, with University COVID-19 guidelines followed. Prof Alessio Ciulli holds the Personal Chair of Chemical Structural Biology at the School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee. He is also the Director of the newly announced Dundee’s Centre for Targeted Protein Degradation (CeTPD). Prof Ciulli’s laboratory has made important contributions to selective chemical intervention on protein-protein interactions targets and to the development of proteolysis-targeting chimeric molecules (PROTACs) as a viable strategy for targeted protein degradation. Amongst his most significant discoveries are the fragment-based design of ligands for the E3 ligase von Hippel-Lindau (VHL), and their use to design one of the first VHLbased PROTACs: the BET degrader MZ1. Prof Ciulli’s Lab later illuminated fundamental insights into PROTACs’ mechanism of action, solving the first crystal structure of a PROTAC ternary complex. Prof. Ciulli is the scientific founder of Amphista Therapeutics, a company that develops new protein degradation platforms. Before joining Dundee, Prof Ciulli was a group leader at the University of Cambridge, where he previously earned his PhD degree and carried out postdoctoral research. Amongst his honours are the EFMC Prize for Young Medicinal Chemist in Academia, the ICBS young chemical biologist award, the RSC Capps Green Zomaya Award in medicinal computational chemistry, and election as Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. This unique Masterclass will give you an insight into Alessio’s journey from scientist to entrepreneur, and how he turned his scientific research into a business.
Masterclasses
Prof Alessio Ciulli
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Entrepreneurial journey: Drug discovery using PROTACs
Entrepreneurship Week 2022
Founder of Amphista Therapeutics
Tuesday 22 February 4-5PM Large MSI Lecture Theatre or Online Free Tickets: uod.ac.uk/entweek
Wednesday 23
Wednesday 23rd February, 6-7:30pm. Event open to all. This event can be attended either online or in-person. Attendance in person is only available for University of Dundee students and staff, with University COVID-19 guidelines followed. Chris McCann is the CEO and co-founder of Current Health. During his time as a medical school student at the University of Dundee, Chris saw an opportunity to make a broader impact in the healthcare field by using technology to address systemic issues plaguing population health— those primarily being provider resource and talent constraints that have propelled reactive, versus proactive, care delivery models. He founded Current Health in 2015 with co-founder and CTO Stewart Whiting. Their mission was to use AI-enabled remote care management technology to empower healthcare providers to continuously monitor and engage patients outside the hospital. As a result, providers could proactively identify and manage potential patient issues and ensure better care at scale. Current Health has went on to become a Scottish startup success story, recently being acquired by Best Buy Medical. Hear the story of how Christopher incepted his idea at Dundee and in only 7 short years created the second largest digital health exit in Europe.
Public Annual Lecture
Entrepreneurship Week 2022
Christopher McCann
Wednesday 23 Feb 6-7:30PM Free Tickets: uod.ac.uk/entweek
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Current Health is a Scottish startup success story that provides world-class care at home. Hear the extraordinary story of how Christopher incepted his idea whilst studying medicine at Dundee, and in only 7 years created the 2nd largest digital health exit in Europe.
Thursday 24
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Converge - Research Commercialisation Workshop Thursday 24th February, 10-11am. This workshop can be attended either online or in-person. Attendance in person is only available for University of Dundee students and staff, with University COVID-19 guidelines followed. Event open to staff, students & recent graduates. Commercialisation of research is becoming increasingly important and valued by universities, funding bodies and governments. This workshop will cover the value of research commercialisation, the different ways in which research can be commercialised, and what the pathways to commercialisation can look like in Scottish universities. You’ll also hear from one of our past winners, Andrew Woodland of In4Derm.
Thursday 24
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Validating your Business Idea Thursday 24th February, 2-3pm. Event open to all. This workshop can be attended either online or in-person. Attendance in person is only available for University of Dundee students and staff, with University COVID-19 guidelines followed. Angie De Vos, Founder and CEO of Women’s Business Station (WBS), will be running this workshop. Angie is so passionate about values that it’s the first topic she focuses on when supporting women in business. WBS is your first stop to the best start, working together to support you on your business journey and empower you to achieve your goals, whether big or small.
Friday 25 #UoDEntWeek22
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Growth Mindset for Entrepreneurship Friday 25th February, 10-11am. Event open to all. This workshop can be attended either online or in-person. Attendance in person is only available for University of Dundee students and staff, with University COVID-19 guidelines followed. Develop a deep understanding of mindset theory and practical tools to use to develop a growth mindset. Understand your own mindset, how to change behaviours and attitudes towards increasing your chances of achieving your goals and how to apply growth mindset as an entrepreneur, particularly in a crisis.
Friday 25
Friday 25th February, 1-2pm. Event open to all. This event can be attended online. Sabine Klaus-Carter graduated with a Bachelor in Time Based Arts in 2005 and a Master of Science in Electronic Imaging in 2008 from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design University of Dundee. Following her degree, she initially started in video production and set up her own business Creation Editor in Edinburgh in 2010 focusing on films for corporate companies, charities and also continuing her passion for media dance art. However, in 2016, her world was turned upside down when her 6-months old son Calvin ended in ICU after a life-threatening allergic reaction. It was the start of a journey during which her son and she could only live on 3 food items: chicken, broccoli and coconut. Desperately wanting some food for her child, she invented a free from bread made with coconut. At the same time, she learnt that other people could benefit from the coconut bread, too. Thus, she stopped making films and started baking bread. Calvin’s Free From Foods was born. Sabine has won awards for her video work and her coconut flat bread rolls. She was named Great British Entrepreneur for Food & Drink for Scotland and Northern Ireland in November 2021.
Masterclasses
Sabine Klaus-Carter CEO & Founder
Entrepreneurship Week 2022
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Resources – finding, creating and being one
Friday 25 February 1-2PM Free Tickets: uod.ac.uk/entweek
Friday 25
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Come along to the Venture Competition Final 2022 Friday 25th February - 4.00-6.00 pm. Event open to all. This event can be attended online. Venture 2022 is a £41,000 new business idea competition for all University of Dundee Students, Staff and Recent Graduates across 8 prize fund categories. In advance of the Final an external expert panel of judges will have judged the viability of each business idea the day before in a private judging session. The live public final is then the opportunity for each of the finalists to deliver a 1-min pitch to the live audience and receive their feedback from the judges and for the audience to take part in live voting for the best pitches of the evening. The winners of the prize funding will then be revealed. By registering today you will secure your free ticket to:
Watch live pitching from our staff, students and recent graduates where we ask you, the invited audience, to vote on which teams delivered the most impactful presentations → Take part in live audience voting → Find out which of our aspiring entrepreneurs will be receiving funding to develop their business ideas further from the £41,000 prize fund, a record for the competition → Be inspired by the variety of innovative ideas you will hear from across the university community
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Sonsors
Masterclasses
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Join our Masterclass series The Centre for Entrepreneurship host Entrepreneurial Masterclasses which offer advanced insights into the career journey of successful entrepreneurs, and also knowledge of a cutting-edge area which they have become experts in. Masterclasses complement the Enterprise Challenge and Venture programmes by providing insights you can apply to your business idea drawn from the latest trends for the modern entrepreneur. The talks are open to students, staff and general public. For FREE tickets & to view previous talks: uod.ac.uk/masterclass “An amazing opportunity to explore entrepreneurs from diverse fields, who have unique techniques and remarkable stories. Every speaker teaches you to see beyond your everyday capabilities. It helps you to drive through restrictions and embrace your talent.” - Sofia Skevofylaka, International Business graduate
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Enterprise Challange #ThinkAskAct
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Enterprise Challange The Enterprise Challenge is an extra-curricular programme allowing students and staff to develop sought-after skills that can be utilised for whatever stage their career is at. In Semester 2 there are over 10 teams working through their business concepts over a 7 week period before battling it out at the virtual live final for a share of the £1,500 prize funding in the New Ideas Award category. Those who don’t want to take their idea forward at this time, can be in with a chance of winning an advanced insights.com Discovery Profile each. → Week 1: Ideation, Value Proposition & Team Formation → Week 2: Business Model Canvas & Competitor Analysis → Week 3: Market Research → Week 4: Legal Introduction & Business Surgery → Week 5: Business Proposal & Pitch Workshop → Week 6: Finance, Marketing & Intellectual Property Introduction → Week 7: Pitch Practice → Week 8: The Final
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