ECTS credits:
1 ECTS

Course parameters:
Language: English
Level of course: PhD course
Time of year: Fall 2019
No. of contact hours/hours in total incl. preparation, assignment(s) or the like: 30 / 48
Capacity limits: 20 participants

Objectives of the course:
How to involve industry in a research project through networking and interviews. Through teaching days and industry interaction, the student will be guided through the process of building a network around the science project.

Learning outcomes and competences:
At the end of the course, the student should be able to:

• Use the Research Canvas to organize and plan the progress of his/her scientific project
• Create new industrial and academic contacts and utilize new contacts to benefit the scientific project
• Identify business and societal needs in the research project, incorporate them, and thereby add extra value to the project
  
  

Compulsory programme:

• Active participation in teaching lessons and interactions with industry
• Perform interviews
• Fill in research canvas

Course contents:
Teaching days (3) and interactions with industry (4):

• Teaching day 1(3 hours): Research Canvas Workshop
  • Fill in research canvas
  • Prepare interview guide
• Industry Interaction 1(5 hours): Open Science Seminar, September
  • Perform small interviews using interview-guide: Industrial need for the research project
• Teaching Day 2(3 hours): Validate problem/need
  • Ethnographic methods
  • Plan industrial observations
• Industry Interaction 2 and 3 (5+6 hours): Open Science Seminar, October, and short company visit
  • Arrange company visit
  • Visit company to observe production, development, or other relevant departments.
• Teaching Day 3 (3 hours): Ideation and realization
  • Fill in the rest of the research canvas and prepare interview guide
• Industry interaction 4 (5 hours): Open Science Seminar, November
  • Verify solutions
  • Interview with focus on important parameters concerning the research and technology – what should happen after this research project, how does the science make it into industry/society?
    
    

Prerequisites:
The student must be doing a research project that could benefit from an industrial network alongside the course.

The student must be motivated for engaging with a new network.

Name of lecturers:
To be announced

Type of course/teaching methods:
Workshops, seminars, exercises and networking

Literature:
None

Course homepage:
None

Course assessment:
Pass/Fail based on active participation and research model canvas

Provider:
iNANO, Aarhus University

Special comments on this course:
This course is part of the Open Science collaboration at ST, AU (www.spoman-os.org) and has been evolved in collaboration with Open Entrepreneurship

Time:

• September 2019 (2 dates)
• October 2019 (3 dates)
• November 2019 (2 dates)
  
  

Place:
iNANO

Registration:
Deadline for registration is 10 September 2019. Information regarding admission will be sent out no later than 12 September 2019. 

For registration: Send an email to ibenbk@inano.au.dk, with a short description of your research project. Include current industrial collaborators, or future industrial relevance of the project.

If you have any questions, please contact Iben Kongsfelt, Open Science, e-mail: ibenbk@inano.au.dk