Project Mentorships: What’s Available & For Whom?
Individuals interested to learn IP Commercialisation courses in a hands-on approach by working on a real-world project can opt for an immersive mentorship under an experienced Innovation Consultant ONLINE across a few weeks' tenure (e.g. 5-week, 10-week). Though trainees can learn informative skills and knowledge from a Practising Consultant by attending a LIVE class or Online course, there is always a time-constraint on the trainee to comprehend 'lots of taught info' during the short teaching session of the Consultant. Trainees also often find a gap between having learnt a skill and delivering a task using the learnt skill. There is no better way for imbibing a skill by a learner through executing hands-on of what is being learnt on a real-world project.
Through a pre-mentorship kick-off meeting, the mentee will be provided an overview briefing of what to expect during the mentorship tenure and the basics of tools and frameworks to be used during the mentorship tenure will be taught. The mentee will be asked to do an assigned task weekly to 'explore and analyse certain problems/topics on own and the output drafts completed by the mentee will be discussed with an Innovation Consultant (from IP2Impact Ltd) in the following week (via a weekly catch-up call, that may last up-to 2hr max). As the mentee progresses through weeks of the mentorship tenure, the mentee would have worked hard towards preparing the final deliverables reports/outputs. The weekly catch-up call is an opportunity for the mentee to get 'doubts clarified' from the expertise of the Innovation Consultant. The learning experience of the mentorship and the final outputs delivered will be almost like the way how professional consultants deliver outputs/reports for a client.
It is likely that few mentees may wish to attend a relevant Self-Study Course or a LIVE Class (available in this website) prior to attend a specific Project Mentorship as a way of acquiring/tasting the learning materials on the taught-theme. Mentee may either proposed an actual project of theirs or a sample real-world project for undertaking the Project Mentorship. Various Mentorship topics have been created for ‘hands-on learning experience’ by the Candidates from the four client groups stated below:
Academic & Research Student
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Though Researchers and Founders do have the option to avail 'readymade inputs and analysed reports' for easy consumption directly from External Consultants and Professional Support Staffs in their employer organisations', it is essential for themselves to learn the basic principles and tools of how to do the tasks of creating those inputs and analysis reports. Such a learning will enable the researchers and founders to apply their will and direction of travel on the way of how their projects are moving forward. Moreover, they will be able to lead on their projects with confidence instead being led by consultants/support-staffs.
The learning experienced provided through this Project Mentorship is comparable to the experience received by a researcher or a founder or a budding innovation support professional through 'undertaking an accelerator programme', at the fraction of time and at the convenience of the Mentee (as this Mentorship is planned around the availability of the Mentee).
Note-1: Employers/Institutions can also sponsor their staffs (e.g. Researcher, Academic, Research Support and Knowledge Exchange Professional) to undertake this Project Mentorship for an appropriate topic/theme. This Mentorship is like a direct 'one-to-one teaching and experiential learning' scheme towards delivering a high quality output on a real-world project at a fraction of the price usually paid to an external consultant for the outputs.
Note-2: IP2Impact Ltd can also consider the possibility of delivering Project Mentorships on other topics/themes which is not currently advertised in this website, provided it is feasible to do so. Further discussion on this aspect can be made with IP2Impact Ltd by submitting your request proposal via emailing at ‘info@ipcommercialisation.co.uk’.