Upskill indviduals and teams.

Zuas provides training and skills development workshops that span the range of activities needed to ‘land’ strong science, technology and insight in the world – from idea exploration and building, through product and service development, to commercialisation and knowledge exchange.

Participants acquire the skills to develop product, service and business offerings, and build the self-confidence to successfully engage with commercial businesses, public sector organisations and NGOs.

Training is provided in partnership with Business Development and Knowledge Exchange / Knowledge Transfer teams, and so builds positive relationships between participants and the key individuals who will work with them to drive their work to fruition.

Our training programmes also increase the pool of academics and researchers who have the desire, skillset and confidence to translate their research and make an impact – and means that more and stronger opportunities will emerge from future research.

We believe in ‘learning by doing’ and encourage participants to work on a real opportunity (even if it is only an early idea). Our workshops are interactive, high-energy, and fun.

If you would like to discuss your upskilling needs, please contact us.

Training skills and development modules

  • Exploring and validating the un-met need

    Identifying the lead application

    Winning against current and future competition

    Intellectual property protection and freedom to operate

    Why us? Who else?

  • Rapid product and service design (Design Thinking)

    Validating opportunities with customers and partners

    Managing and mitigating risk and ensuring compliance

    Active milestone management

    Branding and marketing for start-up companies

  • Business model selection - license, spin-out or start-up?

    Building the start-up team

    Leading and managing a start-up business

    Finance and raising investment

    Pitch school

What people are saying about our training sessions and workshops

 

“It was pitched perfectly to our needs.”

 

“Excellent insight into how to start a business.”

“I have never learnt so much in such a short amount of time.”

 

“Really gives you structure and a deeper dig into the commercialisation process.”