VOLT goes places!
While most PhD students decide to go abroad for their change of scientific environment, I decided to do something different. As researchers, we tend to forget that our research can have real-world applications; this fact is often overlooked during university education in Life Sciences. I learned a bit about innovation during my master’s degree and I wanted to explore this option further. This is why I joined the first edition of the Pathways program, an intensive, 7-week course on innovation, organised by KU’s SCIENCE Innovation Hub. Here, I learned to bring my research-based ideas into the real world and build a start-up to develop my idea into a viable business. On the 7th week, we went on a study trip to South Korea to visit the Innovation Center Denmark in Seoul and learn more about the thriving start-up ecosystem in South Korea.
Overall, the program was a great experience, and I am very happy to see that KU is starting to put more emphasis on research based innovation! If you’re unsure of where you’re going to go for your change of environment and you have an innovative idea with great potential, or if you just want to learn about the start-up world, you can find more information here:
https://science.ku.dk/science-innovation-hub/science-innovation-hub/pathways/
Written by Miguel Á. Salinas-García, PhD student at VOLT
Oversættelse:
Mens de fleste PhD studerende tager til udlandet for at få en forandring i deres videnskabelige miljø, besluttede jeg mig for at gøre noget anderledes. Som forskere, har vi en tendens til at glemme at vores forskning har en anvendelse i den virkelige verden; denne kendsgerning bliver ofte overset i universitetsuddannelser inden for biovidenskab. Jeg lærte lidt om innovation i løbet af min kandidatgrad og jeg ville gerne udforske denne mulighed yderligere. Det var derfor, jeg sluttede mig til den første udgave af Pathways programmet, et intensivt, 7-ugers kursus om innovation, organiseret af KU’s SCIENCE Innovation Hub. Her lærte jeg at føre mine research-baseret ideer ud i den virkelige verden og bygge en start-up for at udvikle min ide til en levedygtig forretning. Den 7. uge tog vi på studietur til Sydkorea for at besøge Innovationscenteret Danmark i Seoul og lære mere om det blomstrende start-up økosystem i Sydkorea.
Generelt var programmet en fantastisk oplevelse, og jeg er meget glad for at se, at KU er begyndt at lægge mere vægt på forskningsbaseret innovation! Hvis du er usikker på, hvor du skal hen for at skifte miljø og du har en innovativ ide med stort potentiale, eller hvis du bare gerne vil lære om start-up verdenen, kan du finde mere information her:
https://science.ku.dk/science-innovation-hub/science-innovation-hub/pathways/