Communities for innovation [St Lucia]
Thriving communities are at the heart of entrepreneurship and innovation, providing the support, collaboration, and shared vision needed to tackle big challenges and drive impactful change. Community building equips individuals with the skills to bring people together, foster creativity, and spark innovative thinking across disciplines and industries.
In this workshop you will learn:
- the fundamentals of community building and its role in innovation
- strategies for fostering collaboration, trust, and engagement within diverse networks
- how to create and sustain communities that fuel innovation in research, social impact, and business
Whether you are an aspiring entrepreneur, researcher, or social changemaker, the ability to build and nurture communities is a key driver of innovation. By connecting with people who share your goals and values, you can turn ideas into impactful solutions, build support for new ventures, and create a lasting legacy in your field.
About Entrepreneurship
We are now entering a new era where there is demand for commercial returns of publicly funded research: research that is transformational, innovative and solution-focused. It is important for any researcher to understand the possibilities and processes that connect research outcomes to the generation of commercial intellectual property and the varied strategies for turning this commercial IP into new products, processes and services. The Graduate School works actively in the entrepreneurship space with UQ Ventures and UQ's commercialisation arm, Uniquest.
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