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Innovation ecosystem building

This is for you if…

…you run a science park, a technology-transfer office (TTO), an incubator or a university commercialisation team, and want to build or strengthen a research-commercialisation ecosystem;

…or you fund them, or lead the ministry behind them, and want that ecosystem built across your country or region.

Build your innovation ecosystem, with Train-the-Trainer at its core: your own staff learn CBIT’s method on live ventures, then deliver it with us.

Next step

Tell us about your ecosystem, your country or region, and what it should achieve.

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What you get

  • Train-the-Trainer, the core module: training for your technology-transfer, science-park and incubator staff. They learn CBIT’s method by shadowing live ventures, then score and calibrate pitches with CBIT on a shared framework, then co-deliver.
  • Founder pipelines and cohorts: STEAM Founder cohorts for your researchers, and International founder sprints in the UK.
  • Network entry: a place in CBIT’s network, with reciprocal soft landing for ventures through the Global VB Partnership, and a route to a sister centre.
  • Co-delivery with CBIT, across your country or region.
  • ImpactTracker, CBIT’s platform, now live, as the shared evaluation instrument: it tracks how ventures perform after venture building, across economic, social and environmental measures.

Format

  • A five-day hybrid course, a visit to NTU, then co-delivery across your country.
  • Cohorts and network access over several years.

The AI edition

Build an AI-enabled innovation ecosystem: your own staff learn to coach research ventures, then scale the work with CBIT.

What AI adds

  • Partner-stated: STeP asked for training in innovation-driven entrepreneurship in AI, health tech and wellness.
  • Delivered: the British Council train-the-trainer programme with CMU STeP and MFii ran with a focus on AI, equipping staff with AI-enabled methods to design, validate and accelerate high-tech ventures. CBIT era
  • Agreement: the MHESI memorandum of understanding’s cooperation focuses on AI-enabled education, venture building and global innovation ecosystem development.

AI-native outcome: science parks and TTOs whose own staff coach research ventures with AI-enabled methods, and keep doing so after CBIT leaves.

Track record

  • 500+

    professionals trained in Thailand (MHESI and Chiang Mai University programmes, 2024–2026)

    2024–2026

  • 30+

    Thai entrepreneurs hosted in the UK under the STEAM Founder programme

    2024–2026

Source: CBIT figures registry v1.8 (1 October 2026). Figures and sources

Impact story

Innovation ecosystem building

Thai science-park staff learned to coach research ventures, then delivered training across Thailand

Read the story

Who: Chiang Mai University’s Science and Technology Park (STeP) and Mae Fah Luang University’s MFii, in a programme funded through the British Council under the UK’s International Science Partnerships Fund.

The challenge
Thai researchers had strong technical skills but needed an entrepreneurial mindset, and the science parks needed their own staff to carry commercialisation on after CBIT left.
What CBIT did
In late 2025 CBIT ran a five-day hybrid programme, online and at Chiang Mai Science Park. Science-park staff shadowed research teams in a technology-transfer role, then scored the researchers’ pitches and compared their scores with CBIT’s.
What happened
The trainers came to NTU in February 2026, then delivered sessions with CBIT across Thailand. The British Council extended the grant, citing the sessions’ expanded scope and reach.
Where it can lead
In Thailand the next steps were a national AI skills programme and a sister centre.

This story on the Programme impact page

Where this can lead

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