In science, the ultimate achievement is a breakthrough that reshapes knowledge and redefines the field. Of course, a breakthrough can also significantly boost your career.
But what are the skills and methodologies required to achieve that goal? We believe the key lies in learning from the startup world, where breakthroughs and disruption are the primary objectives.
This course aims to help you acquire disruption skills, methodologies and mindsets that originate from the startup ecosystem, but have been tailored to the research environment. The course is based on long-term research and was refined with the experience gained in many acceleration courses and workshops.
Our goal is to introduce you to a new mindset of “thinking in terms of disruption” and guide you in testing disruption techniques on your own research.
The course includes 7 main topics:
- Introduction to Disruptive Science – How and when scientific breakthroughs appear, how to move out of the research’s comfort zone.
- Disruptive Checklist – How to test the disruptiveness of a research project, and how to steer it in that direction.
- Breakthrough Brainstorming – How to adjust hi-tech-related brainstorming and opportunity-search methodologies to research.
- Agile Research – How to realign research projects towards disruption.
- Disruptive Mindset – How to seek and leverage research opportunities, how to lead research on less-certain grounds.
- Forefront Collaboration – New ways to create and maintain collaboration at the forefront of a research discipline.
- Promoting Disruptive Research – How to promote research ideas and findings that are non- standard.
In terms of assignments, you will be asked to write approximately one page following each of the topics – testing the topic at hand against your research. The lectures will include reflection sessions, in which we will comment on and discuss these applications. The final assignment will compile these tests and insights into an analysis of your research in disruptive terms.