The Venture Science Doctorate (VSD) is a 3-year, fully-funded, sector-agnostic PhD program, running using the same proven innovation model that underpins Deep Science Ventures itself. The PhD is provided by Deep Science Ventures College at Woolf, a Global Higher Education Institution. The program is truly inclusive, we believe in the strength of
diversity and want to source and attract people into the worlds of research and venture-creation that would not otherwise do so.
The aim of year 1 is for candidates to familiarize themselves with a given industry, mapping the landscape, to identify areas of opportunity for high-impact venture creation. In a process we call Scoping, candidates will identify the optimal solution to a given problem and, alongside accredited courses such as experimental design, perform lab work to develop their hypotheses and contact partner research groups for further experimentation.
Year 2 is focused on invention, and further developing the initial hypotheses, working within leading research groups to prove the technology against the original hypothesis and validate it through technoeconomic analysis.
The goal for year 3 is venture creation, building further on the research from the previous two years, to develop a scalable technology, capable of product market fit. If necessary, candidates may join multiple different research groups to do this. Having validated the technology, candidates will work with experienced venture partners to build a complementary team and a rock-solid investment case, before engaging with some of the 400+ investors that DSV co-invests alongside.
Upon graduating, all the intellectual property is transferred into the new venture, which the candidate continues to lead as a cofounder. For more details on the program, please download the prospectus using the submission form above.