PhD to
Consulting
Build your capacity to support emerging innovative businesses
PhD to Consulting is an opportunity to apply your academic background and research expertise as a consultant for early stage innovative businesses built around research discoveries.
Taking life-transforming science & technology discoveries to market as new innovation is a multi-faceted process that requires data-driven decision making. Company founders can benefit hugely from your expertise, research skills and perspective as they make decisions on how to progress their businesses.
By joining the Postgraduate Consultant Programme, you are joining a community of experts who are engaged in supporting startups to make smarter decisions and build investable businesses.
For you, it's an opportunity to build important skills; prepare for your career; build a portfolio; and contribute to products and services that solve many intractable challenges facing humanity. Upon completion of the PhD Consultancy Training you will become eligible for paid consulting opportunities.Sign up for the PhD Consultancy Training Programme now
5 Days
Fully immersive experience
Effectively delivering as a Consultant requires foundational training in the basics of venture creation.
Through our 5-day crash course MBA, The Startup Experience, you can build your knowledge on how businesses operate, and what to consider when taking new ideas to market as products or services.
The MBA immerses you into building a business from the ground up, working on a real life early stage business, to give you complete insight into the process.
Topics Covered
Day 1: Technology Validation
• Client Interview
• Innovation Assessment
• Commercial Journey
• Founding a Company
Day 2: Market Landscape
• Market Valuation
• Customer Profiling
•
Value Proposition
• Competitor Analysis
Day 3: Commerical Strategy
• Value Chain Analysis
• IP Rights Assessment
•
Revenue Model
• Route to Market
Day 4: Business Strategy
• Funding Assessment
• Financial Structuring
• Raising Startup Finance
• Investment Pitching
Day 5: Project Delivery
Deliver your findings back to the client venture
to support their growth as a business
Testimonials
The training was a quantum leap in knowledge, as I was exposed to what it takes to start a business, thinking longterm about how to grow a business, strategic plans on what the market expects from a new starter, and what investors are looking for in a business - all in one week!
PhD Candidate
Maynooth University
The course exceeded my expectations above and beyond. I was expecting classroom type teaching but the course blew me away. The wide breadth of the course delivery; teaching, team talks, individual work, guest speakers, client meetings was fantastic. The online format was incredibly effective, and it actually didn’t feel very different from being in a physical room! This opened my eyes to pathways I didn't know existed. Absolutely recommend for everyone to attend.
PhD Candidate, Queen's University Belfast
I met with the PhD team at the beginning and end of the 5-day program; by the end of the week they sounded more like MBA students than PhD students. I was incredibly impressed with the knowledge they had absorbed while immersed in this program with the Spin Up team.
Enterprise Lead, Quantum Technology Enterprise Centre
Alumni Spotlight
Alumni 1
"An essential experience that gives any PhD student the understanding and confidence to pursue their career after a PhD. The programme addresses a need, for PhD students to lift their heads from the intricacies of our research and explore "real world" applications and opportunities. The understanding of how a business runs, legally, financially and technically is such important information that really hasn't been touched on by any other part of my PhD. Absolutely a vital experience in helping me start my own company, biotIP.
What's fantastic about it, is that you get to spend time with the genuine article. Scientists turned entrepreneurs, and I think that's the best learning environment you could ask for."
Dr Uros Zupancic,
Chief Scientific Officer at biotIP ltd
The Startup Experience© is a product of Spin Up Science Ltd. Interested in working with us to develop a similar program? Get in touch.