MPLS: Developing your ideas

Developing your ideas: planning with room for opportunity

Intended Audience All DPhil students and All Research Staff of: MPLS Division

Possession of a ‘thunderbolt’ idea is not enough to guarantee success in research or business. Planning the practicalities and routes to an end ‘product’ (publications, further funding, marketable items) are a necessary step. Often this planning process brings opportunities and threats to light. This interactive course will use the popular business model canvas combined with your research project as a starting point to develop your ideas further. Aims: To explore the use tools from the world of the business to plan and develop your research project. These tools will help identify stakeholders, map out the possible impact of a project and identify possible road blocks. Objectives: by the end of this session participants will have: •Explored a Business Model Canvas with their peers •Explored other visual business planning methods •Mapped out their research project •Thought about those that their research affects and what affects their research •Linked these to a case for funding https://weblearn.ox.ac.uk/course-signup/rest/course/4D004D101137