INNOVATE
Workshop series with experienced entrepreneurs to go from technology to a business idea
Who should join?
Q&A Webminar
OCT. 13 - 2017
Learn about Startup Nano and ask as anything.
6h00 pm to 6h30 pm
Business Models
OCT. 18 - 2017
Structure your Business Model
with Adam Pool (Angel Investor)
14:00 - 14:30 Check-in and Registrations
14:20 - 15:40 - Toolbox: What is the Lean Business Model Canvas and Validation Board with Startup Braga
15:40 - 16:10 - Talk: What it takes to start a Nanotech Startup - Adam Pool (Early Stage Venture Capitalist / Angel Investor, USA)
16:10 - 16:30 - Break and Snacks
16:30 - 18:30 - Team Work: Business Model Canvas and Validation Board (with Mentors)
Q&A Webminar
OCT. 18 - 2017
Learn about Startup Nano and ask as anything.
9h30am to 10h30am
Kickstart Idea
OCT. 28,29 - 2017
From Idea to a Startup with Rene Bastijans
Day 1 - Goal: Learn to prepare your Business Model validation with Rene Bastijans
9h30 - Introduction to Lean Startup and the Lean Canvas
10h30 - Exercise: startups document their project on the Lean Canvas
11h30 - Group presentations: 2-3 startups present their canvases to the group for constructive feedback
12h00 - Assumptions and Hypotheses
12h30 - Methods for testing (MVPs)
13h00 - Lunch Break
14h00 - Introduction to the Experiment Board
14h30 - Exercise: startups design their 1st experiment
15h30 - Group presentations: 2-3 startups present their experiment boards to the group for
constructive feedback
16h00 - Finding customers & how to discover their struggles, hopes and expectations
17h00 - Making sense out of experiment data
17h30 - Day Wrap-up and Q&A
Day 2 - Goal: Prepare your Startup Roadmap
9h30 - Welcome Coffee
10h00 - Working Session: Building a Team - Where is my CEO?
11h30 - Working Session: How to Select your Beachhead Market - The disciplined entrepreneur
12h30 - Lunch
13h30 - Working Session: Product Roadmap - Where should I start?
14h45 - Working Session: IP and Legal Protection - To NDA or not NDA is the question
16h00 - Pitch and Mentoring with Startup Nano Team
17h30 - End
Nanotech Opportunities
OCT. 19 - 2016
Kick Off Event
Discover Opportunities in Nanotechnology
08h45 – Check in
09h00 –Introduction to the partnership "Alliance Nano for Entrepreneurship" - Lars Montelius, INL
09h05 – Introduction of the Startup Nano fostering an entrepreneurial spirit - Carlos Oliveira, Startup Braga
09h15 – Roundtable: Nanotechnology Opportunities
- Lars Montelius, INL
- António Braz Costa , CeNTI
- António Cunha, Univ. Minho
- Carlos Oliveira, Startup Braga
(Moderator: Carlos Neves)
10h00 -Startup Nano Program Presentation
10h30 - Networking Break
11h00 - Panel: Building an innovation ecosystem for Nanotechnology
- Nanotechnology Startup Stories - Vitor Abrantes, Graphenest
- Nanotechnology Startup Stories - Sofia Aires Martins, Magnomics
- An investor perspective on an innovation ecosystem - Adam de Sola Pool
(Moderator: Miguel Amador)
12h20 - Session End
Tech. Applications
NOV. 05 - 2016
Identify and select a business opportunity for a technology
with Maria Costeira (Med Tech Entrepreneur and Investor)
11h00 - Welcome
11h15 - Guest Speaker
12h00 - Lunch Break and Projects Pitch
13h30 - Workshop: How to Find a Need (Explore and Define)
15h00 - Fruit Break
15h30 - Workshop: How to screen Needs (Existing Solutions, Stakeholders Analysis, Market Analysis, Technology Opportunity and Screening)
16h45 - Lessons Learned Pitch
17h30 - Workshop Wrap Up
Business Models
NOV. 19 - 2016
Structure your Business Model
with Tord Lendau (Business Entrepreneur and jury of SwedNanotech)
11h00 - Welcome
11h15 - Guest Speaker
12h00 - Lunch Break and Projects Pitch
13h30 - Workshop: Business Model Canvas and Validation Board
15h00 - Fruit Break
15h30 - Workshop: Business Model Canvas and Validation Board (with Mentors)
16h45 - Lessons Learned Pitch
17h30 - Workshop Wrap Up
Kickstart Idea
NOV. 25,26 - 2016
From Idea to a Startup
with Vidar Andersen (Business Trainee and Entrepreneur)
Day 1 - Goal: Join a Team and define your Value Proposition
9h30 - Registration
10h00 - Team Building
11h30 - Ideas and skills Pitch
12h30 - Lunch and Team Creation
13h30 - Workshop: Building a Value Proposition to the Client
14h45 - Working Session: Defining the Value Proposition
17h00 - Working Session with Mentors
Day 2 - Goal: Design your Business Model and plan the validation
9h30 - Welcome Coffee
10h00 - Workshop: Business Model Canvas
10h45 - Working Session: Business Model
12h30 - Lunch
13h30 - Workshop: Preparing validation
14h15 - Working Session: Validation and MVP
16h45 - Pitch
18h30 - Closing Session
From a Technology to a Product
JUL. 14 - 2017
Learn the steps that take a technology and application to a product ready to the market or to be licensed to a partner.
with Hugo Macedo (CEO Smart Separations - UK)
09:00-09:30 Check-in and Registrations
09:30-10:30 Keynote Speaker - Going from a Technology to a Product with Hugo Macedo, Smart Separations (UK)
10:30-13:00 Workshop: Developing a Tech-Based Product
- Business Model and a Go-To-Market Roadmap
- Understanding the Industry Value Chain
- How to work on B2B and Partnerships
- Startup Go-to-Market versus Dream Company
- The Value Staircase for a Technology Base Product
with Miguel Amador, StartupBraga
13:00-14:30 Networking Lunch
14:30-16:30 Visit to INL and Startup War Stories: Biomode and RubyNanoMed (Limited to 50 People)
Finding Technology Market Applications
SET. 22 - 2017
Identify, analyze and select a business opportunity and then apply it to a technological point of view
with Tatiana Correia (UK Knowledge Transfer Network - Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials) and Maria Costeira (Entrepreneur and CEO, and Investor at SBS Fund)
14:30-14:45 Check-in and Registrations
14:45 - 15:30 - Keynote: Moving Nanotechnology from Research to the Market: a UK experience - Tatiana Correia (UK Knowledge Transfer Network - Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials)
15:30 - 16:15 - Keynote: Who to select market opportunities worth pursuing - Maria Costeira (Entrepreneur and CEO, and Investor at SBS Fund)
16:15 - 16:45 - Intro to CeNTI and Visit
16:45 - 18:00 - Exercise: Select Market Opportunities for a Technology with Startup Braga
Transfer from/to INL (Braga) and CeNTI (V.N. Famalicão) is provided for free upon request on registration.