KT Events including IKT Recognised Courses

For more details about IKT Events, please look through the calendar below or contact us



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Recognised Course Providers

telephone: 020 7127 8081 or 07092 982814 email: info@ikt.org.uk

The Institute of Knowledge Transfer (IKT) sets the highest standards for the development of its profession. It is keen to help Knowledge Transfer (KT) professionals work more effectively by providing support and guidance on a range of relevant KT Training and Development (T&D) and Continuing Professional Development (CPD) courses and qualifications. The IKT actively seeks providers of best practice Knowledge Transfer training and development and/or CPD who can become recognised suppliers of KT relevant courses.

Whilst we expect content and processes to be unique to each course run, we look for high standards of organisational management and KT relevant training which will be of benefit to busy members in this new and emerging sector. Course providers have the opportunity to demonstrate through their own language and processes, the ways in which they can meet the recognition requirements.

Below is the list of current recognised Course Providers. To take part in any of their programmes, please do not hesitate to contact them directly.

Are you a course provider and wish to join this list? If so please download the Recognised Course Provider Status form and contact us.

Blueberry Training offer a series of professional business courses in Knowledge Transfer to help you improve your skills. Whether you are looking for information on how to start up your own business, how to sell your product, financial advice when running a business, legal requirements for business or employment business information then we can help.

Cardiff Business School offer a Foundation Programme for the KT Professional. This programme is split over a series of 4 x 2 day workshops with a 1 day presentation and awards day to close the programme. The workshop titles are:

  1. Emotional Intelligence and Leadership - where participants are encouraged to look at how they interact with those around them and how they project themselves as leaders in a KT setting.
  2. Leading People - in this workshop participants investigate how KT impacts upon organisational change and their role as a leader/facilitator of that change.
  3. High Performing Teams, Negotiation and Influencing - as professionals working within KT the participants are encouraged to examine their role within multi disciplinary teams and to acknowledge the role of negotiation and influencing within KT.
  4. Contracts, Project Management and Innovation - this final workshop concentrates on some key aspects of KT and the skills needed to be effective within the KT environment.
  5. Call back day - on this day the participants give a short presentation to their fellow learners about a workplace based project they have been working on in KT.

ARJ Consultancy working with the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) have developed a programme entitled 'Managing Commercial Creativity' which focuses on what commercialisation is and what it isn't! Methodologies, tools and techniques that support commercial and creative thinking are explored throughout this course. For more information about this programme, please contact Angela Massey

Kintish is the UK's leading authority in Business Networking Skills training. Kintish have helped thousands of people become confident and effective networkers by offering business networking tips, techniques and training. As a KT professional or as an academic, attending business gatherings are not the most comfortable time in your working day. Meeting a variety of people, often for the first time and talking to them causes doubts and uncertainties to many. It's called networking, a word and an activity which strikes terror and panic for the majority. It's now time to change all that and be Kintish'd

The Leadership Foundation

The Leadership Foundation can support leaders at every stage of their careers. All our open programmes offer invaluable opportunities to reflect on practice, work alongside colleagues from other institutions, and explore recent thinking on university leadership at each level.

The open programmes are designed for clear progression as leaders develop within and beyond their institutions, and it is not unusual for participants to make their way up the ladder of programmes at intervals of one or two years between each programme.

The Training Gateway (University of York) Supporting UK Universities Develop their International Business

The Training Gateway established in July 2008 aims to provide a single point of contact for external organisations to procure executive and corporate training and partnership opportunities from UK universities and colleges.

As well as promoting UK training opportunities, the Training Gateway also promotes international educational partnerships and training opportunities from around the world.

enter-rise

enter-rise is a specialist training company specialised in the development and delivery of tailored entrepreneurship education.

Our courses spark innovation, empower people to turn their ideas into reality and show them a new way to think, work and achieve. Working with the leading academic and research organisations in the UK and beyond we train the best minds of today, helping create the entrepreneurs of tomorrow. We believe successful entrepreneurship education depends on integrating innovators, successful entrepreneurs and educators to stimulate ideas, encourage students' entrepreneurial flair and help deliver novel and innovative products to the marketplace.

If you would like to discuss your entrepreneurship training needs please do get in touch and we will be happy to explore how our programmes can be tailored to your requirements.

The Medici Programme

The University of Birmingham Enterprise Training Programme (formerly Medici)

The Enterprise Training Programme is an established training scheme for researchers from any university wanting to learn more about business and the commercialisation of research.

The training consists of four modules (two days each) which will be running in Birmingham from January to March 2012. We cover the essentials of business (strategy, organisation, marketing, finance and business planning), skills training (negotiation and networking) and intellectual property protection and exploitation. In addition, delegates have an opportunity to socialise and build networks with other entrepreneurially minded academics from a range of other institutions.

The training will be delivered by a mixture of academics and practitioners and will involve lecture style and interactive case study sessions.

For further information or to express your interest in taking part in this programme please contact Catherine Mansell.

Genecom

Genecom offers bespoke, workshop-based coaching and training [at your location or from our 100-seat theatre on the beautiful Pentlands Science Park] which is principally targeted at aspiring innovators and entrepreneurs who want to turn ideas into something real and valuable.

Genecom have raised over £7 million in grants and investments for new enterprise and work independently or in partnership with experienced IP lawyers, real-life entrepreneurs and established trainers with established track records in leadership and management development, developing a performance culture and building companies.

Our clients include the universities of Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Heriot Watt, Leeds, Newcastle, Sheffield and St. Andrews and the Institute for Animal Health, Moredun Research Institute, Roslin Institute and Scottish Crop Research Institute.

If you are a UK university, we may be able to advise on how to subsidise or pay for our services.[ If you are a school interested in entrepreneurship, we are members of STEMNET (http://networking.stemnet.org.uk/). If you are a Scottish SME, find out how we can invest to develop your life science project]. Want to find out more?

NovaUCD

NovaUCD is the Innovation and Technology Transfer Centre at University College Dublin (UCD).

NovaUCD is responsible for the commercialisation of intellectual property arising from UCD research and for the development of co-operation with the industry and business communities. It offers a coherent support programme including:

  • Promotion of a culture of innovation and technology transfer through training and awareness initiatives
  • Management of technology transfer
  • Support for new technology and knowledge-intensive ventures and entrepreneurs
  • Development of partnerships with industry

NovaUCD delivers a comprehensive and flexible programme of courses, seminars and workshops. Our aim is to facilitate Lifelong Learning, and to be a resource to help innovators, entrepreneurs and members of the academic and research communities to navigate the path through the spectrum of opportunities and challenges that is intellectual property and technology commercialisation.