04 - Say YES to learning about Business & Entrepreneurship as a PhD Student
Hi all, I recently took part in a great competition developed to raise awareness of the commercialisation of ideas among PhD students and Postdoctoral researchers. In this post, I decided to share this experience with you because it could be very beneficial to you or your friends doing a PhD or Postdoc in the UK. This training is called YES for Young Entrepreneur Scheme (now you get the title of the article, right? ^^). To summarise the whole experience in one sentence: YES is a unique opportunity to experience the start-up creation process and see how an idea can be transformed into a business! But why would an engineering PhD student learn about business? Well, although PhD programmes are mainly designed to prepare for research and academic roles, not all PhD students want or can pursue a career in academia. Firstly, the academic world doesn’t suit everyone (due for example to the lack of application of the work done). Secondly, there are too many PhD students for too