Valid from: Spring 2016
Decided by: Eva Nordberg Karlsson/FN2
Date of establishment: 2016-02-24
Division: Innovation Engineering
Course type: Third-cycle course
Teaching language: English
The aim of this course is to equip PhD students in the life science area, early in their education, with the tools and commercial “spectacles” needed to be able to look at their research from a utilization perspective. This will further stimulate the transfer of research results to society, and contribute to enhanced innovation and cooperation between academy and industry.
Knowledge and Understanding
For a passing grade the doctoral student must
Competences and Skills
For a passing grade the doctoral student must
Judgement and Approach
For a passing grade the doctoral student must
The course is held during five days within 2 months of time with focus areas: a) Research based innovation and idea generation (what is innovation, value creation from research, NABC-concept, market analysis) b) Trends and new markets in life science (business intelligence, global challenges) c) “Protecting your ideas” (intellectual property, patent strategy, licensing, deals) d) Financing innovative research projects e) Communicate your business idea (”Elevator pitch”, presentation skills) f) Collaboration
There is no specific course literature, but the book below is recommended for those who wish to know more about the NABC-concept that was developed at Stanford research institute.Carlson, Curtis R. & Wilmot, William W.: Innovation: The five disciplines for creating what customers want.. Crown Business, New York, 2006.
Types of instruction: Lectures, seminars, project, study visit. The course is built on lectures around the different focus areas and three project assignments, out of which two are individual and one is done in group.
Examination formats: Written report, written assignments, seminars given by participants.
Project 1: NABC-analysis around the students research project presented in a one-page report and orally. Project 2: Groups project around idea with business potential, more thorough NABC-analysis in a 10-page report and oral presentation in value creation forum. Project 3: Individual search around the doctoral student´s research project in patent databases (day 3) which shall be written up in a short report.
Grading scale: Failed, pass
Examiner:
Admission requirements: registered as PhD student
This course is in large parts similar to GEM070F, but adjusted for the life science area. The course is run cooperatively with Medical faculty and attract students in life science area from both Med faculty, Science faculty and LTH to get a good dynamics in the group.
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