Postgraduate Course: Industry and Entrepreneurship in Biotechnology (PGBI11090)
Course Outline
| School | School of Biological Sciences |
College | College of Science and Engineering |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Credits | 10 |
| Home subject area | Postgraduate |
Other subject area | None |
| Course website |
None |
Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | This course will explore ways in which new opportunities arising from advances in biological knowledge can be turned into viable organisations that create value. The course will seek to teach students how advances in bioscience have been ¿spun out¿ into biotech companies and how such entrepreneurial biotechs have both succeeded and failed in becoming sustainable enterprises.
It will also emphasise that biotech investors do not back individuals, they back viable teams and consequently around half of the course will involve working in small teams on group projects and proposals.
The course aims to teach students how to:
- Identify potentially significant scientific advances which open up valuable opportunities.
- Create a team to take advantage of such an opportunity.
- Obtain the resources necessary to create an entrepreneurial organisation.
- Manage the entrepreneurial organisation after its launch.
- Seek to grow the business into a sustainable enterprise.
- Create value for the enterprise¿s stakeholders. |
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2013/14 Semester 2, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Learn enabled: Yes |
Quota: None |
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Web Timetable |
Web Timetable |
| Course Start Date |
13/01/2014 |
| Breakdown of Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
100
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Lecture Hours 20,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
78 )
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| Additional Notes |
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| Breakdown of Assessment Methods (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| No Exam Information |
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
At the end of this course, students will have acquired:
- Entrepreneurship skills, including increased capability to start a biotech business.
- The capacity to recognise the commercial opportunities opened by new biological discoveries.
- The ability to look at pressing problems from the perspective that these may have a biotechnological solution. |
Assessment Information
| A 5000 word group report, in a Wiki format (100%) |
Special Arrangements
| None |
Additional Information
| Academic description |
Not entered |
| Syllabus |
Not entered |
| Transferable skills |
- How to fuse individual initiative with a managed group effort within a structured enterprise swith a common goal.
- Communicating with people outside academia.
- Time and effort management
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| Reading list |
Not entered |
| Study Abroad |
Not entered |
| Study Pattern |
This course will be taught using a variety of methods.
Lectures, follow-up discussion sessions, project team formation, project team work on starting an entrepreneurial organisation to commercialise a biotechnology which will report via a Wiki.
We will engage a business consultant with experience in launching new start-ups to give 3 lectures on industrial structures, IPR gathering and investor presentations. |
| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr David Arnot
Tel: (0131 6)50 5503
Email: D.E.Arnot@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Sarah Anderson
Tel: (0131 6)50 8643
Email: Sarah.H.Anderson@ed.ac.uk |
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