Fundamentals of Supporting Consultancy for KT
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This course highlights the importance of structuring consultancy agreements and ensuring compliance with consultancy policy to maximise benefits, including enhanced societal impact, additional revenue for the institution, and professional growth for researchers. 

Participants will explore how knowledge transfer partnerships can be harnessed to drive innovation and ensure successful consultancy engagements. 

The course also covers best practices in training and knowledge transfer, helping institutions create a robust consultancy policy that supports impactful collaborations between academia and external organisations.

Why join this course?

This course offers practical insights into structuring consultancy agreements and highlights real-world examples of successful consultancy projects. You will learn to differentiate consultancy from research activities and how to showcase impactful examples of consultancy benefiting society, the economy, universities, and researchers.

Learning Objectives

  • Differentiate between consultancy and research activities 
  • Gain insights into the structuring and support of consultancy agreements 
  • Learn best practices for managing and facilitating consultancy projects 
  • Analyse real-world examples of impactful consultancy engagements 
  • Develop skills to support academic consultancy effectively within your institution

Course Topics

  • Understand what consultancy is and why it should be supported 
  • Explore consultancy policy and its implications 
  • Identify risks associated with consultancy and learn mitigation strategies 
  • Examine legal issues and key contractual terms in consultancy agreements 
  • Discuss different operational models for managing consultancy projects

Testimonials

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I thought that this was an excellent introduction to the topic of Venture Capital for early-stage tech startups (and the interface with TT). The calibre of the lecturers was excellent. They were all approachable, knowledgeable, and happy to engage with the participants.

The topics covered were broad and pitched at the correct level.

Dr Alastair Cunningham, Spain

Venture Capital TC

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This is my first experience of this kind and ASTP was far beyond expectations. I really have no words. I feel much richer in soul and intellect. I wanted and still want to evolve, to learn. Even if I still have to learn, my colleagues and trainers have been exceptional.

Maria Spiridon, Romania

Building KTO for

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Left a little piece of my heart in Latvia this past week at the ASTP course for Creating Successful Spin-outs in Riga. I'm grateful to the wonderful ASTP staff for a fantastic programme.

I value these programmes for the knowledge transferred and especially for the connections made. The training days are long and intense, but as they say in Italian, vale la pena. We emerge with a better understanding and appreciation for the work we do, which in turn helps us to be more active, engaged, and generous within our respective ecosystems.

Arendt Speser, Italy

CSS

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Many thanks to ASTP for bringing your wonderful training events to Riga! I learnt a lot about early-stage technologies and their transfer via Spin-outs. It was lovely to meet friends and colleagues from previous ASTP events.

We discussed how the knowledge transfer processes are organised at our institutions and about the team effort that goes in to supporting academic inventions together with researchers.

Anna Stikane

Latvia

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It has been three intense training days and an insightful experience of learning and connecting with knowledge transfer professionals across Europe.

Thank you for providing us with such a high-quality training experience on Spin-outs!

Faye Orfanou, Greece

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