From Idea to Funding Pitch
On Monday March 23rd 2026, Cambridge NeuroWorks held a workshop entitled "NeuroSparks: Developing Problem-Solving Neurotech Ideas" in Scotland Christof Gaunt, Innovation Pathway Manager at Cambridge NeuroWorks, led a session entitled "Identifying untapped opportunities, exploring early business ideas and refining your concept". The aim of this session is to compress the 12-week process of finding a "Need" into a single hour of structured thinking. The first two stages of this six stage process pertains to identifying "why" where the goal is to find and screen a need. Next two "what" stages pertain to concept generation and screening it. Final two "How" stages pertain to strategy development and business planning. The road map is to first start with an initial idea based on a raw scientific concept. For instance hyper-mirroring causes distress in Misophonia from my own 2021 Journal of Neuroscience study.# Secondly focussing ...