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The Skills School

Learn the skills.
Apply them to your next challenge.

Build a commercialization plan, prepare a funding case, interpret business data or test an AI business idea. Choose a focused course for yourself or a learning program for your organization.

Applied learning · The flagship pathway

Research-to-Market Lab

Work on a real innovation. Examine its market opportunity, map a commercialization pathway and develop a practical action plan.

For researchers, innovators, entrepreneurs and institutional teams.

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Explore the courses

Choose the skill.
Make the next move.

Focused courses and connected
learning pathways.

Course formats, fees and cohort dates are confirmed through an enquiry. Explore a topic for yourself or discuss a private program for your organization.

IP and licensing

Intellectual Property Frameworks

Understand how IP systems shape protection and commercialization choices.

Applied focus An IP landscape and questions to resolve for your innovation.

IP and licensing

Protecting Intellectual Property

Explore patents, trademarks, copyright and the practical choices behind protection.

Applied focus A structured inventory of IP assets and protection priorities.

IP and licensing

IP Value and Commercialization

Connect intellectual property to business models, value creation and revenue pathways.

Applied focus An initial commercialization pathway for an IP asset.

IP and licensing

Invention Licensing

Examine licensing structures, negotiation priorities and royalty arrangements.

Applied focus A licensing brief setting out the terms and questions to explore.

Financing and partnerships

Research and Innovation Financing

Compare funding pathways and match them to the stage and needs of an innovation.

Applied focus A funding-pathway map and financing priorities.

Financing and partnerships

Grant Writing and Management

Build a stronger proposal, budget and delivery plan, with sustainability beyond the grant.

Applied focus A proposal outline, budget structure and grant-management checklist.

Financing and partnerships

Teams and Innovation Partnerships

Design collaboration around the capabilities, incentives and responsibilities a project needs.

Applied focus A partner map and a practical collaboration brief.

Financing and partnerships

Investment Strategy for Innovation

Explore investment options and the evidence needed to communicate a credible funding case.

Applied focus An investment-readiness brief and evidence priorities.

Marketing and adoption

Science Communication

Make complex research understandable and relevant to the people who need to act on it.

Applied focus A clear research narrative tailored to a defined audience.

Marketing and adoption

Marketing Research and Innovation

Translate technical strengths into a market proposition, positioning and an engagement approach.

Applied focus A value proposition and an initial innovation marketing plan.

Marketing and adoption

Digital Content and Public Engagement

Use communication tools, content formats and media to reach stakeholders with clarity.

Applied focus A content and channel plan for your research or innovation.

Marketing and adoption

Sustaining Innovation Adoption

Use customer feedback, stakeholder relationships and adaptive communication to sustain relevance.

Applied focus An adoption and communication action plan.

Data and commercial intelligence

Commercial Data Literacy

Turn a business question into an analytical task, assess data quality and interpret the evidence.

Applied focus A business-question brief and data-quality checklist.

Data and commercial intelligence

Dashboards for Better Decisions

Choose useful measures and connect dashboard signals to decisions, owners and actions.

Applied focus A dashboard brief and decision-action map.

Data and commercial intelligence

Applied Predictive Analytics

Understand model selection, validation and uncertainty through business scenarios.

Applied focus An analytical experiment plan with validation criteria.

Data and commercial intelligence

Forecasting and Scenario Planning

Test assumptions, compare plausible futures and communicate uncertainty in commercial plans.

Applied focus A scenario comparison and decision brief.

Data and commercial intelligence

Executive Data Leadership

Translate analytical findings into strategic choices, governance and accountable action.

Applied focus An executive intelligence brief and decision framework.

Entrepreneurship and AI

Building a Business in the AI Age

Find a problem worth solving, validate what customers will pay for and design a dependable AI-enabled business.

Applied focus A tested business thesis, service prototype and launch experiment.

Need a more specialized program?

Discuss regional IP context, inclusive innovation financing, ethical communication or a tailored combination of topics.

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New courses in development

Build judgment for
an AI-enabled world.

AI for Leaders

Evaluate opportunities and limitations, and frame an adoption decision.

Responsible AI and Governance

Translate ethics, accountability and oversight into organizational practice.

AI Agents and Workflows

Understand tasks, tools, permissions and evaluation in applied systems.

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Build capability
across your organization.

Bring us your learning priorities. We can shape a focused workshop, a connected learning series or a private program around the decisions and work your people need to handle.

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