Who should participate?

The Workshop is designed for:

• Business owners and managers
• People who want to start a businesses
• Budding entrepreneurs
• Researchers seeking to commercialise an innovation
• Individuals wanting to explore business or career opportunities.

The Workshop program is suitable for highly motivated people who want to:

• Learn about current business practices and gain knowledge and skills
• Examine and evaluate a new business opportunity
• Obtain investor funding
• Commercialise technology-based activities including biotechnology research
• Step back from the day-to-day of running an established business to understand how they got to where they are now, investigate possible future directions and decide how to get to where they would like to be.

Participating as a team

Organisations may enter a team of three to five people. A team of two may be accepted as an exception following an interview with the Program Director. A number of organisations regularly enter a company team in the Workshop program either to examine a specific company project or to develop entrepreneurial managers.

Participating as an individual

The Workshop is a team-based program. Individual participants receive assistance to become a member of a team. They can choose to work on a real business project that is relevant to their own interests. Some participants have a business idea that they would like to investigate and develop a plan for. They have opportunities to recruit other participants to join a team to work on their idea.