Build the commercial skills to take your technology to market.

Understand how your materials innovation fits the competition, what meaningful end-user involvement looks like and how to explain the route to adoption.

Explore what qualifies as frontier AI, how to frame your feasibility project and what evidence supports a credible development and commercialisation case.

Understand the relationship between grant funding and private investment, and what your business needs to prepare.

Identify what your next project needs to achieve, where evidence is missing and how to assess funding opportunities before investing time in an application.

Simon will take you through how to prepare for key meetings, from inviting a partner into a grant to bringing on an advisor.

Understand what customers and supply-chain partners need, how your technology fits into their systems, and what this means for product design and manufacturing. Explore the evidence and practical steps needed to move beyond the lab and improve manufacturing readiness.

Assess funding fit, shape a credible project and develop your commercial case.

Leave with a funding-fit checklist and application planning worksheet. Includes access to Grant Funding Fundamentals.

Learn whom to involve, how to ask useful questions and how to interpret customer feedback. Leave with a draft validation plan covering participants, methods and next steps. Designed for biotechnology, bioeconomy and EngBio founders, with time on the wider ecosystem and regulation.