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Two-day workshop & mini-conference · Melbourne

Entrepreneurial Mindset Training for Victorian STEM Researchers

Dates: 17–18 September 2026 Time: 9:30am – 4:00pm both days Who: STEM early- and mid-career researchers (EMCRs) in Victoria
Free to attend

Do you have research you would like to translate into real-world impact? If yes, then you should sign up, that's exactly what this event is for.

Some fun facts:

  1. Participating in entrepreneurship and research translation activities appears to make researchers more successful at securing grant funding.
  2. Achieving non-academic impact from research can boost citations.
  3. Working with researchers who have achieved entrepreneurial success is correlated with increased success in achieving impact.

If you are interested in any of the above, then this two-day intensive workshop is for you.

Led by researchers who have successfully translated their research into successful products, raised millions in venture capital, secured grants, and even sold companies and IP, this workshop will give you the tools, hands-on practice, and insights to help you and your teams achieve your research translation goals.

Register your interest

Your answers below will help us tailor the workshops for the room and allow us to produce Initial Guidance Reports for you. Rough answers are completely fine, but please be specific in your descriptions. Optionally, you can answer questions 12–21 to receive an additional Persona report.

Just your details below — we'll email you the program and venue information closer to the date.

Have materials already? Attach them.

If you have documents that already cover the ground below — a past grant or accelerator application, a pitch deck, a one-pager, a business case — attach them here instead of re-answering the basics. You're welcome to do both: attach materials and answer whatever they don't cover. The more we know, the better we can tailor the workshop and guidance to you.

Up to 5 files — PDF, Word, PowerPoint or text. Your documents are kept absolutely confidential. See our privacy policy.

Questions 3–11 are optional if your attached materials cover them — otherwise, please answer them below.

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9. How confident are you that what you plan is technically feasible?
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10. How familiar are you with suppliers, methods of production, other operating costs, costs of reaching customers, etc., in the commercial context?
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11. How familiar are you with all the financial parameters of commercialisation?
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Answer the questions below (about 5 minutes) and we'll email you your personal Impact Persona report.

12. Have you ever done work to enable your research to be used for purposes other than academic publication and citation?
13. In the last three years, how much time have you invested in efforts to translate research into something that is used and to enable adoption for use beyond publication and citation?
14. To what extent does impact beyond academic publication and citation form a core part of how you define success and of who you want to be or be known for?
15. How would you describe your level of commitment to investing time and effort (both during and outside of work hours) to translating your research and to building the skills needed to do so?
16. In considering what influences your selection of research topics, how much has your past and current selection of topics and research design been influenced by a desire to solve problems or needs outside of academic publication and citation?
17. Considering your current and expected workload, as well as other commitments, how much time could you spend on creating solutions based on your research and making people aware of them as compared to other priorities?
18. Thinking about your workplace culture and what gets rewarded, your organisation's support programs (such as internal funding schemes, capability workshops, and access to expertise), and its policies and processes (such as IP policy or invention disclosure): how would you describe your overall experience of your organisation's encouragement and support for research translation?
19. Thinking about the people around you at work: what is your experience of being connected to colleagues who have successfully translated their research into widely used solutions, of forming projects with people from other parts of the organisation, and of accessing people with the capabilities to help you create solutions and communicate with potential users?
20. How do you think others would rate your awareness of the steps needed to successfully translate research for impact — and your skills to carry those steps out?
21. For each of the following, select the response that best describes your knowledge of, familiarity with, and experience in application:
  1. Completely new concepts, no previous exposure
  2. Have read about the concepts before but they are not familiar and I have never applied them
  3. Somewhat familiar with the concepts and have heard about others who have applied them
  4. Familiar, but have not personally applied this concept to a research translation activity
  5. Fairly knowledgeable and have applied the concepts at least once
  6. Very knowledgeable and have applied the concepts multiple times
  7. Extremely knowledgeable and apply the concepts regularly
Desirability — all factors influencing whether users are willing to invest time (or money) to understand, obtain, and use something
Adoptability — the barriers users must overcome to obtain or use something, and all the factors that stop someone adopting a solution
Feasibility — the technical or scientific challenges or prerequisites in developing and delivering a new solution
Viability — whether the benefits outweigh all the costs of creating and delivering a solution
Worth Doing — whether hidden, intangible, long-term, or opportunity costs make it not worth doing
People & Psychosocial Influences — the human factors and psychological elements that influence adoption decisions
22. For each of the following, select the response that best describes your knowledge of, familiarity with, and experience in:
  1. Completely new concepts, no previous exposure
  2. Have read about these activities before but they are not familiar and I never done them
  3. Somewhat familiar with these activities and have heard about others who have done them
  4. Familiar with the activity but have not personally done this activity
  5. Fairly knowledgeable and have done this at least once
  6. Very knowledgeable and have done this activity many times
  7. Extremely knowledgeable, do this activity regularly and help others to do so successfully
Identifying, differentiating, and validating distinct potential users, beneficiaries, and customers
Creating adoptable solutions based on research outputs or conclusions
Proof of concept development and testing in a real-world context
Building awareness for adoptable solutions
Gaining widespread use and application of solutions by people outside academia

Your answers are kept confidential and used only to generate your report. See our privacy policy.