Business and entrepreneurship course

Business and entrepreneurship training addresses issues on intellectual property, entrepreneurship and business development. This mandatory course will be aimed at getting the ESRs to think about how novel ideas can be commercialized. It will involve a staged series of exercises, which move from vision and idea to definition of work to be done through protecting intellectual property, raising finance, marketing and sales. The whole series will engage the ESRs by getting them to work in teams and develop a business-plan guided by the training team. Case studies will be delivered by entrepreneurs and venture capitalists. The business-training course will be held in Milan (IIT) and will cover topics such as patent law applied to smart materials, drug discovery and diagnostics, public health and entrepreneurship. The CEOs of all non-academic participants (Diagenode, UD-GenoMed, Mosaiques, ACS, Exiqon, LifeGlimmer, YR, SB Science Management) will contribute on commercialization.