A practical guide to business start-up: from idea to product

  • Date: , 12:15 - 13:45
  • Venue: Room 2.01, Postgraduate Centre, Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh Campus, Edinburgh, EH14 4AS, Scotland
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Dr Olga Kozlova, Enterprise Creation Manager, co-ordinates a monthly seminar series aimed at providing budding entrepreneurs with useful advice and tips on starting a company.

As well as guiding participants through the exciting and challenging world of high tech start-ups, it assists potential Converge Challenge applicants formulate their business ideas and plans.

Sessions are open to postdoctoral research and academic staff, and PhD, MSc, MRes and final year degree students from Heriot-Watt University or research pools of which Heriot-Watt University is a member.

About this seminar

You’ve put hours of thought, sweat and tears into developing an innovative, clever and marketable idea. What now?

Learn the next steps in how to take your idea through the production process, find investment, and develop it into a fully-formed business proposal, ready for the marketplace. We are delighted to have Stuart Kelly from Wideblue, an expert in product development, for this session of our extremely popular business start-up seminar series.

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About our speaker, Stuart Kelly

Stuart is a chartered mechanical engineer and bioengineer, with 15 years industry experience in multi-disciplinary design and engineering projects.

He has planned and project managed the design of technology-based products for a wide range of medical, scientific and commercial applications, on behalf of companies ranging from multi-national manufacturers to innovative technology start-ups.

Before joining Wideblue in 2007, Stuart was Medical & Scientific Manager at DCA Design International, one of Europe’s leading product design consultancies.

He has also worked for Ford Motor Company and completed bioengineering research projects at Strathclyde and Ghent Universities.