BeefCAMPus: 2008 Calendar fully subscribed

BeefCAMPus: real CASES, real ACTION, real LEARNING
Combines professional learning with real-life practice and consulting.
Three-step learning process: careful screening and preparation of participants; 3 days of workshop in Mallorca -AND IN OTHER, EASY-TO-REACH, NICE PLACES (SUGGEST ONE); follow-up.

IN 2007, WE TRAINED MORE THAN 200 PARTICIPANTS TO BECOME "questioneers". NEW 2008: on this site, we have started to build a series of FUTURE NOW articles, mainly RSS feeds from other sources, which have been carefully selected for the Beef Thinker.

This is a special offer for researchers technology transfer and innovation professionals from companies, universities and contract research organisations.

Jacob and Max have packed all their many years of experience into a compact format.

BeefCAMPus, 3 days of building your own clear-cut action plans about how to commercialise a portfolio of concrete cases. How to build the business case of your own Technology Opportunities, and, as usual, a lot of learning.

Beef CAMPus will be offered on the island of Mallorca, which, apart from its natural beauty and friendliness, is easy and cheap to reach from almost anywhere in Europe. Together with local partners we offer the best training facilities.

Beef CAMPus will be for 8-16 participants at a time. Led by Jacob Bar ("questioneer") and Ernst Max Nielsen ("Where's the Beef").

Objectives
The objective of the Beef CAMPus is to develop skills in regard to commercialising inventions and innovative business ideas. Secondly, to enhance the business case for presented inventions/ideas brought by the participants. Thirdly, to actually assist in the commercialisation business process, i.e. to achieve real results.

Participants will learn to make the proper decisions and to evaluate business plans and feedback from real action in regard to real life cases.

These objectives will be reached through lectures, exercises, case-based training and consulting as well as group-based presentations and discussions.

Benefits
The participants will learn to make better, faster decisions, and to prioritize a given portfolio of technology opportunities with a view to determining the cases offering most business potential. Another benefit will be learning how to prepare and conduct negotiations with potential stakeholders for a given case. Participants will learn to use and implement results of advanced searches using state-of-the-art engines. Participants will learn how to use multi-criteria decision making support tools to rank and weight a portfolio.

Participants are surveyed for pre-existing skills and needs and wishes.
Participants' cases are screened before workshop.
Participants get follow-up mentoring online and by phone in regard to own cases (all included). Subject to limitations.
Participants get a free 30-day trial period (access) to JBEngine and discounts on follow-on subscriptions.