• IMPERIAL TECHCELERATE 2018

    Imperial's Flagship Postdoc Entrepreneurship Programme

  • About

    The Techcelerate Programme is designed to create a creative, supportive and experimental environment to activate the entrepreneurial potential of Postdoctoral Researchers through a combination of experiential education and access to an entrepreneurship ecosystem.

    Techcelerate 2018 Cohort

    Empowering Postdocs

    'Get out of the Lab'

    The Techcelerate Programme will support three months of full-time, intense market assessment where Researchers, engage with 100+ prospective customers, regulators, suppliers, partners and competitors, and taking steps to validate the commercial potential of their research.

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    Evidence-based Approach

    'Find Product Market Fit'

    Built upon on the learnings and insight from the successful postdoctoral accelerator SETsquared ICURe programme at Southampton University, participants are encouraged to pursue an evidence-based approach to entrepreneurship, formulating and testing a series of customer and business model hypotheses.

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    High-Pressure Environment

    'Designed to be Challenging'

    The programme is deliberately designed to be challenging, creating a constant high-pressure environment that emulates the PhD research process something which previous programme participants have consistently responded positively towards.

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    Masterclass Series

    'Expert-led Workshops and Talks'

    A set of expert-led workshops and talks specifically designed to add value as a stand-alone session and complement the Techcelerate Programme. Carefully curated to include the most important topics and subjects - helping to shape thinking on product design, development, and finding product-market fit. ​

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    Business Coaches & Advisors

    'Industry Support and Guidance'

    The Techcelerate programme provides unlimited support and guidance from an assigned business advisor and coach. Giving access to a wealth of resources around business acumen, industry landscape and invaluable connections.

  • Outcomes

    The 3-month Techcelerate Programme is designed to:

    Fast-track Ideas

    The commercial development of innovative ideas derived from university Postdoctoral Researchers.

    Alternative Pathways

    Enhance commercial knowledge & skills, giving insight into possible alternative career pathways.

    Pipeline of Potential Spin-outs

    Increase the commercialisation of university research through all vehicles.

    Commercial Experience

    Provide experience and training for Postdoc Researchers in the commercial marketplace.

  • The Techcelerate Programme

    The Imperial Techcelerate Programme will support three months of full-time, intense market assessment, engaging with 100+ prospective customers, regulators, suppliers, partners and competitors, and taking steps to validate the commercial potential of their research.

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    14 Postdocs

    Designed to be challenging, creating a constant high-pressure environment emulating the PhD research process.

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    Week-long Residential

    Week-long intensive residential to capture/extract key business model and value proposition hypotheses.

    3

    3-month Full Time

    Teams have access to coworking space, Masterclasses, Peer-to-Peer Support and Business Advisors.

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    £30k Resources

    Researchers get up to £30k to ‘get out of the lab’ and validate their ideas in the marketplace.

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    Customer Interviews

    Critically evaluate ideas by engaging with 100+ potential customers, competitors and partners.

    6

    Showcase

    Opportunity to present findings to an industry panel, helping secure support to move to the next stage

  • The Techcelerate 2018 Teams

    “We must learn what customers really want, not what they say they want or what we think they should want.” - Eric Ries

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    Dr. Bakul Gupta

    Medical device for detecting the onset of epileptic seizures

    The idea behind our technology is to use biocompatible nano- materials for the detection of electrical signals in the brain.

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    Dr. Deborah Adkins

    Interactive tool allowing homeowners and stakeholders to physically interact with their replica HOUSE and receive immediate digital information.

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    Dr. Daniel Malko

    Utilising atmospheric oxygen to oxidise organic molecules without energy input

    Developing a safe and unique technology to significantly reduce the energy and cost required for the cleaning of industrial wastewater”

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    Dr. Gregory Craven

    Covalent drug discovery

    Applying a novel fragment-based screening platform to rapidly develop covalent drugs against traditionally “undruggable" proteins.

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    Dr. Florence Gschwend

    Commercialising the BioFlex process; a chemical process enabling the use of unwanted waste wood for the large-scale production of materials, chemicals and fuels.

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    Dr. Hamidreza Alidousti

    Total Shoulder Replacement System

    Developing a unique and disruptive minimally invasive approach to Total Shoulder Replacement.

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    Dr. Geraldine A. Torin-Ollarves

    High-Speed

    Micro Sampler-Injector

    This versatile new technology can be used as a sampler, an injector or a flow-control valve in an automated and reliable way, working in a wide range of temperatures and pressures.

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    Dr. David Yates

    Our technology is able to rapidly and wirelessly recharge everything from small, low power devices such as phones to large, high power devices such as electric vehicles.

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    Dr. Marin Sawa

    Solar Bio-battery

    Collaborative research has demonstrated the scalable fabrication of a paper-based BPV using a simple inkjet printer. Fully printable on plain paper, consisting of a printed layer of electron-producing cyanobacteria.

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    Dr. Richard Ahlfeld

    UQuant - artificially intelligent virtual assistant for engineering

    We want to build an artificial intelligence that provides feedback by autonomously making sense of data and physics.

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    Dr. Vladimir Yufit

    RFC Power Limited:

    Low-cost batteries for grid energy storage

    Developing a cost-effective hybrid Manganese Hydrogen Flow Battery (MHFB) with exceptional performance and efficiency.

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    Dr. Babu Choudhary

    A new technology to non-invasively monitor machines providing a lot more data for prognosis.

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    Tino Millar

    Machine vision for sports

    Real-time understanding of human performance, injury risk and team tactical analysis. This is accomplished using edge computing and computer vision to track the motion and trajectory of athletes, while understanding the context they are performing in.

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    Dr. Richard Kelwick

    Platform for the large-scale isolation of extracellular vesicle (EV) therapeutics

    We are developing standardised processes for the production and isolation of extracellular vesicle-based anti-cancer therapeutics.

  • The Team

    Management and delivery team for Imperial Techcelerate 2018.

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    Dr. Simon Hepworth

    Director

    Enterprise

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    Dr. Rebecca Wilson

    Head of Corporate Partnerships

    Faculty of Natural Sciences

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    Ben Mumby-Croft

    Director

    Entrepreneurship

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    Vicky Kilcoyne

    Associate Director

    Academic and Enterprise Ventures

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    Hiten Thakrar

    Programme Lead

    Imperial College

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    Paul Sturrock

    Facilitator

    Slingshot Ventures

  • Stay in Touch

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  • Get in touch

    To find out more about future programmes and other Imperial support place get in touch below.

    Enterprise Lab, Imperial College London, Level 0, Sherfield Building, South Kensington, SW7 2AZ
    +44 (0)20 7594 1964