Events

Venue: Engineering  Department,  Lecture Theatre 4 (note venue changed from LT 0)

Take part in the £1k Business Training event and find out how to impress the judges with your ideas.

The £1k Challenge represents the next stage of the Entrepreneurs Challenge and is open to all members of the University. To enter the competition you must submit a 1500 word Executive Summary by the 5th of December and to help you write the best possible entry, we are running a Business Training event on 8th November to help get you think through the issues.

The event will cover the areas of market research, assessing your ideas, dealing with finances and also what Judges look for in an entry.

Anyone is welcome to attend the event but in order to manage numbers, please register here.

Venue: Law Faculty, Room LG17

How Will You Protect Your Big Idea?

This workshop is aimed at providing potential entrepreneurs in Coventry with the knowledge to navigate issues of patenting, protecting their technology, and establishing trade marks. Speakers will include patent attorneys, solicitors, and entrepreneurs who have had to deal with issues of intellectual property protection.

In between the talks there will be business surgeries, where participants are given the opportunity to speak to intellectual property experts on how they can protect their idea.

A light lunch is provided and following the main sessions there will be opportunity for networking between participants.

Anyone is welcome to attend the event but in order to manage numbers, please register here.

How to get the Consumer to Accept Technology as a Friend

Hear from Philips about their approach to open innovation. You will also go through one or two case studies of recent product innovations that show how Philips products start to fit into your personal life as you would like them to.

Drinks and refreshments will be provided.

Anyone is welcome to attend the event but in order to manage numbers, please register here.