A guest post by Philip Gimmack, Emotional Intelligence Specialist, Founder of EQworks. Sign-up to Philip’s ACE Saturdays Workshop on Dec 5th here.   Emotional Intelligence & Innovation When asked how emotional intelligence builds innovation skills I wanted to start from the beginning. “Innovation is the creation, development and implementation of a new product, process or service, withaaa

Are you an early career scientist held back from exploring that enticing entrepreneurial space outside your lab by fear of failure? Are you someone who is more familiar with innovating beyond the bench but finds the rarely trodden theme of learning from failure an enticing topic? Then Innovation Forum Oxford’s ACE Saturdays 2020 series isaaa

REGISTER HERE REGISTRATION DEADLINE 5th MAY WE ACE is a programme of workshops dedicated to women entrepreneurs in health and life sciences, with a focus on leadership and negotiation.   In 2018 Innovation Forum Oxford (IFO) created ACE (Awareness, Connectivity, Exchange) Saturdays–a series of workshops aimed at nurturing a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship amongst academic and clinical researchersaaa

“Good ideas need good strategy to realize their potential” Reid Hoffman, Founder, LinkedIn   As part of Innovation Forum Oxford’s (IFO) commitment to accelerating the development of innovative science and technology, IFO is collaborating with INSTA Associates to build INSTA-Insights:   an online platform that will provide free strategy acceleration services to researchers and earlyaaa

Innovation Forum Oxford, in collaboration with the BioEscalator, brings back another instalment of the A.C.E. Saturdays program, a series of five workshops delivering the basic business skills through “learning by doing”. Designed to benefit the Oxford academic, clinical and start-up communities, the workshops tackle fundamental topics (as detailed below) whilst allowing exchange of participants’ unique experiences and perspectives.   Follow theaaa

In our academic community, we lack no creativity, ability, or character to innovate and be entrepreneurial. We only need a nudge in the right direction, a starter business toolkit for a kickstart, and most importantly a nurturing ecosystem to provide the appropriate support. Innovation Forum Oxford had the pleasure to be initiators in the Oxfordaaa

Consulting Skills Introduction “I look to the future because that’s where I’m going to spend the rest of my life”   George Burns   In July Innovation Forum Oxford presented the final workshop of our highly successful ACE Saturdays series with a session led by Maurice McCartney, Oxford University’s Entrepreneur in Residence, that focussed onaaa

My name is Rachel Green, and I am a User Experience Designer at Triteq. In conjunction with a medical student from Oxford University, we are creating a pain mapping exercise sheet for children waiting in A&E. The point of the sheet is to help keep children occupied while they wait as well as encouraging childrenaaa

Self-Pitching Masterclass “You can be a powerful and influential presence…but like most people you probably have never had the chance to exercise your communication muscles.”   On a swelteringly hot Saturday in June, Innovation Forum Oxford continued the ACE Saturdays workshop series with a session focussed on influence and personal pitching led by Sarah McCloughryaaa

Child Health Hackathon “The best and fastest way to innovate, is to collaborate.”   These words from paediatric cardiologist Dr. Anthony Chang capture the motivation behind Innovation Forum Oxford’s Paediatric Innovation Campaign: we want to bring new energy and ideas to the many unsolved challenges in children’s healthcare.   In May 2018 we took anotheraaa