• Question: How long have you been planning your idea?

    Asked by 557envf27 to Ashwanth, Jeni, Mark, Natalie, Stephen on 17 Jun 2016.
    • Photo: Mark Gowan

      Mark Gowan answered on 17 Jun 2016:

      My role is to develop ideas and concepts and bring them into the real world. I typically run 5 or 6 projects at one time all at varying stages of their development.

    • Photo: Stephen Richardson

      Stephen Richardson answered on 17 Jun 2016:

      I have worked on lots of ideas over the last 8 years. Some were projects for clients which usually took around 3-9 months each.
      I’m now working on a 4year research project. But even that has several different parts, so probably about 1 year per idea I guess

    • Photo: Natalie Wride

      Natalie Wride answered on 19 Jun 2016:

      Hi 557envf27 🙂

      I’ve worked on lots of different projects and ideas ranging from about 2 months to two years in length but then even after my involvement the project still needs to be built so it could end up being longer!

      Now I’m doing my research, it’ll be roughly 4 years working on my project. As with Stephens’ work, within that theyre’s lots of different parts which will take roughly a year each but they will all overlap so I’ll do bits of different work side by side 🙂

    • Photo: Jeni Spragg

      Jeni Spragg answered on 19 Jun 2016:

      Process development is quite complex, so it takes lots of people a lot of years to create a new industrial process.

      I haven’t been planning my specific idea for long (only a few months), but I am continuing the work of the research group that I’m in. Over the last few years, they have worked on little parts of the research, and now I am joining in and adding more knowledge to the mix.

      Together, we’ll build up a really good idea & knowledge of the new chemical process. Eventually, in a few years it might go to the next stage where people can scale it up from lab-size to pilot-size (much bigger but still not quite as big as an industrial process), to test it at a bigger scale.

Comments