{"id":2224,"date":"2015-03-20T16:52:33","date_gmt":"2015-03-20T16:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/evoice\/?p=2224"},"modified":"2015-03-25T16:26:21","modified_gmt":"2015-03-25T16:26:21","slug":"the-icure-innovation-to-commercialisation-pilot-programme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/evoice\/the-icure-innovation-to-commercialisation-pilot-programme\/","title":{"rendered":"Moving university innovations into the marketplace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/evoice\/files\/2015\/03\/sugar.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2312\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/evoice\/files\/2015\/03\/sugar-300x281.jpg\" alt=\"sugar\" width=\"300\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/evoice\/files\/2015\/03\/sugar-300x281.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/evoice\/files\/2015\/03\/sugar.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The challenge of translating research discoveries into viable business and industry ideas\u00a0is being addressed by a new innovation to commercialisation programme.<\/p>\n<p>Innovation-to-Commercialisation of University Research (ICURe)\u00a0is run by\u00a0the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.setsquared.co.uk\/\">SETsquared<\/a> Partnership and funded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hefce.ac.uk\/\">HEFCE<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/organisations\/innovate-uk\">InnovateUK<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Its aim is to\u00a0move ideas and innovations out of universities and into the marketplace. The\u00a0programme funds teams, with grants of up to \u00a350,000, to determine whether there is a market for their discovery.<\/p>\n<p>The basis of ICURe is a real-world, hands-on, immersive learning experience about what it takes to successfully transfer innovations into the market.\u00a0 It\u00a0is about engaging with industry and talking to customers, partners and competitors to identify the most appropriate business model.<\/p>\n<p>Programme participants go on a three-day intensive boot camp followed by a market assessment period. This involves\u00a0early career researchers taking\u00a0the lead in engaging with potential customers, partners and competitors to validate the commercialisation potential of the research. Each team is fully supported by SETsquared and has a business mentor from a relevant industrial sector.<\/p>\n<p>ICURe ties in closely with work by HEFCE to develop entrepreneurial skills and knowledge in a new generation of scientists and engineers.\u00a0 The programme will also benefit teams who just want to improve their\u00a0knowledge of the marketplace. This can be\u00a0used\u00a0back in the\u00a0lab to either refine\u00a0ideas and technologies or to take the research down another path.<\/p>\n<p>This video case study shows an\u00a0example of ICURe in action &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/120785720\">https:\/\/vimeo.com\/120785720<\/a> &#8211; the password is SETsquared.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on ICURe please contact <a href=\"mailto:ben.mcclure@setsquared.co.uk\">Ben McClure<\/a>, Programme Manager 01225 388722.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The challenge of translating research discoveries into viable business and industry ideas\u00a0is being addressed by a new innovation to commercialisation programme. Innovation-to-Commercialisation of University Research (ICURe)\u00a0is run by\u00a0the SETsquared Partnership and funded by HEFCE and InnovateUK. Its aim is to\u00a0move ideas and innovations out of universities and into the marketplace. The\u00a0programme funds teams, with grants&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":97356,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/evoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/evoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/evoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/evoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/97356"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/evoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2224"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/evoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2472,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/evoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224\/revisions\/2472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/evoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/evoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/evoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}