Innovation Micro-Certification
Overview
UK Innovate Micro-Certification offers short, online asynchronous courses focusing on the fundamentals of impact research, commercialization, and implementation. This program equips learners with essential, high-level knowledge to navigate the evolving landscape of research and innovation.
Badges & Certificates
The Micro-Certification is divided into three themes: Innovation, Commercialization, and Entrepreneurship. All three themes have the opportunity to earn a digital badge. Completion of all three themes will earn the learner a certificate of completion.
Themes
Innovation:
Growth Mindset in Innovation: This course explores how adopting a growth mindset can enhance innovation by encouraging continuous learning, resilience, and adaptability in individuals and teams.
Impact Research: This course discusses the role of impact vs Impact in research, where capital I Impact looks to incorporate the community from the very beginning.
Building Impact Research: During this course, participants will gain a better understanding of ‘traditional’ research, translational research, and use-inspired research.
Commercialization:
Idea to Impact: This course is an overview of the journey an idea/early-stage technology takes from the lab, through the Technology Commercialization process, and ultimately into the community.
Protecting Your Idea: This course provides an overview of intellectual property (IP) in the innovation space, highlighting what exactly IP is and is not.
Social Innovation to Effectuate Impact: This course provides an overview of social innovation and how it can be commercialized/disseminated into the larger community to provide tangible benefit to the population.
Entrepreneurship:
Engaging Stakeholders: This course outlines how to identify key stakeholders and strategies for engaging them effectively throughout the innovation process.
Entrepreneurial Ecosystem: This course overviews the concept of entrepreneurial ecosystems, detailing the various types that support entrepreneurial activity.
Who’s Writing the Checks: This course explores various types of innovation funding, giving an overview on where to find potential support for their technology.
Commercialization Planning in Grants: This course introduces concepts related to writing forward looking commercialization strategy sections in basic science and translational research grants.
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About Launch Blue
Launch Blue nurtures promising startup founders and university innovators through intensive accelerator and incubator programs. These programs support entrepreneurs, innovators, and emerging investors with hands-on training to create and sustain successful businesses and technologies that solve real-world problems in Kentucky and beyond.
Launch Blue is dedicated to growing the innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystem of Kentucky. Operating from the University of Kentucky, Launch Blue partners with stakeholders across the Commonwealth and beyond to nurture an environment that allows emerging technologies and social solutions to reach their full potential impact, serving UK’s land grant mission to uplift Kentucky’s innovation economy. As a national startup accelerator, Launch Blue connects the Kentucky ecosystem with national talent, resources, and capital.