AI Discovery

Turn your research into a venture

You’ve spent years developing knowledge, technology and expertise. AI Discovery gives you the practical tools, expert guidance and connections to explore whether your research could become a viable venture - and understand what to do next.

Why AI Discovery?

• Discover how your research could address real-world problems and create value beyond academia.
• Build practical venture skills without needing previous startup experience.
• Test opportunities, customers and commercial potential before committing time and resources to development.

To apply for AI Discovery, you must:

• Be a Techscaler member.
• Be based in Scotland or intend to build your tech startup here.
• Be an academic researcher: a postgraduate, postdoctoral researcher, or early-career academic.

Explore, validate, commercialise

AI Discovery provides a structured framework for exploring the journey from research to venture, helping you identify opportunities, understand customers, validate ideas, explore commercialisation and venture models, navigate funding pathways, and use AI tools to move your idea forward.

By the end of the programme, you should be able to:

• Identify a credible opportunity within your research with real-world potential.
• Build confidence in the evidence behind your opportunitiy and its potential value.
• Understand the commercialisation route and venture model that could work for your idea.
• Use AI tools to accelerate your thinking, research and venture development.
• Define clear next steps for taking your research towards commercialisation.

Your research has potential. Take the first step towards finding out where it could go.