Offered at NTNU, Trondheim this Autumn, this intensive four-day course will introduce the concepts and tools used to evaluate research-based innovation and feasibility of different paths in bringing this innovation to users.
Grounded in the internationally recognized entrepreneurship education framework developed at Engage – Centre for Engaged Education through Entrepreneurship, the course blends lectures, workshops, group discussions, and real-world practice. You will work with your own research-based innovation idea to explore alternative pathways to impact and evaluate these for their feasibility, including your own role in this. Along the way, you’ll interact with experts from NTNU’s Innovation Ecosystem, including the Technology Transfer Office.
By the end of the course, you will:
- Understand innovation from the value perspective in relation to user/ customer/societal needs.
- Be able to evaluate the feasibility of alternative pathways to realize innovation, including considerations of
- Ethics
- Resource needs
- Your own motivation and role
- Intellectual property
- Be familiar with the Norwegian innovation ecosystem and support available
- Understand effective communication for resource acquisition
- Understand your own entrepreneurial competence
Read more about the course here.
This course is ideal for PhD candidates seeking to strengthen their innovation competence, meet requirements of the Norwegian National Qualifications Framework, and prepare for careers both inside and outside academia.
Admission requirement:
- Enrollment in a (Norwegian) PhD programme.
- Physical attendance is mandatory due to the course’s interactive, practice‑based design.
Dates:
4 days: November 12 & 13, and November 26 & 27, 2026
Course fee: Free. The normal course fee of NOK 5,000 is exempt this year due to financial contribution from NTNU and Innovation Norway’s national ecosystem funds.
Take the next step toward making your research matter — not just in theory, but in practice. Join us and develop the skills, confidence, and mindset to become an innovator within your field.
