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Action 3 · Task 245 · Group 12

Map Curriculum Stages Gates and Support Resources

Curate a tailored sequence of venture-building modules, stage-gates, and advisory assets tailored for university spinouts. Assign specific mentors, legal specialists, and TTO liaisons to each critical pathway gate.

Objective

Customising the curriculum ensures founders focus exclusively on high-leverage commercialisation tasks rather than generic startup content. It builds a rigorous framework that enforces go or no-go discipline at every stage.

What's expected from the founder

Present a fully configured Programme Curriculum Map incorporating explicit stage-gates, required evidence items, and resource allocation lists. Secure written commitments from named academic and industry mentors for each module.

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Five questions an expert would ask when reviewing your output

Use these to challenge assumptions, pressure-test your logic, and check the quality of this action's output in the context of the parent task and wider venture development.

  1. 1

    What evidence justifies the inclusion of each stage-gate, and how do they directly test commercial viability?

  2. 2

    How have you vetted the external mentors to ensure they understand university IP and spinout nuances?

  3. 3

    Why are these specific technical and regulatory tasks prioritised over earlier customer discovery activities?

  4. 4

    How do the gate criteria prevent founders from advancing on technical progress alone without market validation?

  5. 5

    What resource contingency plan is in place if an assigned domain expert or mentor becomes unavailable?