Working in collaboration with Göteborg University, Chalmers is offering a free-of-charge idea evaluation service for early stage innovations. The service results in a report for academic and industry innovators, created in cooperation with the Chalmers’ course in Idea Evaluation & Feasibility Studies. This offer is now extended to readers of Science|Business.
The idea evaluation is build on over a decade of accumulated experience from education-integrated research commercialisation, utilisation and technology transfer from the Gothenburg Schools of Entrepreneurship. This has now resulted in government-acknowledged best practices being applied in the Masters course, IEFS – Idea Evaluation & Feasibility Studies. In this course, students from Chalmers and Gothenburg analyse innovations and ideas arising from academic and industrial R&D, as a first step in the commercialisation of the idea.
Selected innovation projects are assessed by teams of five supervised masters students applying tools and frameworks in the areas of IP strategy, market and risk analyses, and business model design that are being taught at Gothenburg Schools of Entrepreneurship. The idea provider will - by submitting the innovation for analysis - allow for 2-3 calls/meetings with the analysis team for optimal results.
After analysis and presentation, the holder of the invention receives a full report for further use along with recommendations for further incubation of the innovation. All information is handled with secrecy through non-disclosure agreements and the reports stemming from the process are not public.
Ideas, early innovations, research patents and projects, now have the opportunity of getting this thorough IEFS-analysis free of charge. Out of all applications enrolling, 28 innovations will be chosen.
For more information or to express interest in having your innovation evaluated, contact David Andersson, IEFS Innovation Coordinator at Management of Organisational Renewal and Entrepreneurship at Chalmers.
Applications are accepted until December 21.
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