Train the trainer – How to support researchers in grant acquisition, project management and exploitation

Monica Schofield has over 30 years’ experience of innovation management in industry large and small in Sweden, the UK and Germany. Aside from her industrial career in robotics, she is the co-founder of a robotic sensing company, founding editor of the International Journal of Medical Robotics and Computer Assisted Surgery, and has been a board member representing a major investor in an advanced software company. Since 1993 she has been an expert advisor in various capacities to the European Commission on matters relating to research and innovation policy. She has been delivering workshops and acting as a consultant on research and innovation management across Europe since 1995. Monica has a degree in engineering science from the University of Durham, is a Chartered Engineer and is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology.

Monica joined Tutech Innovation GmbH in 1999. She currently heads the business area Consultancy and Competence Development and is Director International Cooperation. Her team provides services for researchers at Hamburg University of Technology and external clients to help them make best use of the opportunities provided by European funding programmes for research, innovation and regional development. This includes advising small and medium-sized enterprises on matters relating to innovation and young entrepreneurs wishing to commercialise research results. Monica is a member of the Programme Planning Committee of the European Industrial Research Management Association EIRMA (www.eirma.org) for which she also leads a task force on responsible innovation.