This is a module for all PhD students within the Science Foundation Ireland Centre for Research Training in Foundations in Data Science. The students will enrol in the Structured PhD programme in Science & Engineering. This module aims to develop the student's entrepreneurial, innovation and creative skills enabling them to realise the commercial and societal impact of their research. It will examine research as an innovation, a product, a service, or a process invention that, when viewed with entrepreneurial questioning can generate value (financial and non-financial) for a variety of stakeholders. Students will gain an understanding of how to critically evaluate key concepts, frameworks and best practices for validating the commercial, user and societal impact and value of research beyond the lab and into a company and industrial market contexts. Students will engage in practising the multidimensional components of the entrepreneurial mind-set to demonstrate how these can complement discipline specific subject knowledge.

Content will examine - Research as an innovation, a product, a service, or a process invention that, when viewed with entrepreneurial questioning can generate value (financial and non-financial) for a variety of stakeholders to bridge the gap between discovery and commercialization. - Demystify the language of entrepreneurship and innovation in researcher context and will evaluate approaches to connect research concepts and business opportunities using techniques for creative thinking, idea generation and exploring problem spaces - Market and competitor benchmarking and customer profiling and segmentation - Communication and Collaboration for communicating ideas to an intended audience, establishing project credibility; evaluating financing options for research and pitching with impact

- Explain the creative process and apply a range of creative and innovative strategies in a variety of multidisciplinary contexts - Critically assess key concepts, frameworks and best practices for validating the commercial, user and societal impacts and values of research - Understand the principles of problem-solution fit as well as product-market fit and how these can be applied to research questions.

- Develop entrepreneurial and creative thinking and leadership skills - Exhibit the ability to apply tools and techniques such as ideation, customer discovery, business model canvas, prototyping, testing and pitching - Be able to present ideas clearly and professionally and the exhibition of writing skills for the various research audiences.

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The module will be block-taught, with all scheduling and room bookings managed by the programme manager at the Centre for Research Training (CTR). Delivery will combine lecture and workshop sessions to facilitate the development of student's creativity skills and the practice of ideation, presentation and pitching skills (transferable Skills) will deliver on graduate attributes of being creative and articulate. The students will become more knowledgeable of entrepreneurial and innovation principles and practices which will enable them to understand the broader business language in a technical discipline context. Students will examine how their research links with and addresses the sustainable development goals (SDGs) and will assess how responsible and ethical they behave as researchers.