BioMed Entrepreneurship

The Minor in BioMed Entrepreneurship offers a new way of thinking for life scientists!
In the rapidly evolving life science industry, there is a need for scientists who combine business, science and technology knowledge for innovative medical advances. 

The Minor in BioMed Entrepreneurship brings industry experts and successful entrepreneurs to teach essential entrepreneurial tools, skills and know-how to translate research results into marketable products. Learn from the mindset of successful entrepreneurs how they built their businesses. Gain insights about innovation, applied R&D, marketing, regulations, intellectual property, budgeting, corporate management, funding, negotiation, team building, leadership.

The Minor in BioMed Entrepreneurship offers you to:

• acquire in-depth entrepreneurial knowledge through team and individual work,
• formulate business-related questions for the translation of scientific knowledge,
• apply skills of various interdisciplinary fields (communication, finance, regulations and marketing),
• communicate your projects in a concise and appealing way through weekly pitching sessions.

This Minor provides a solid foundation for working in the BioTech, MedTech or pharmaceutical industry. It will help you to shift your mindset towards translational science and business-oriented questions. 

You will develop a set of hard skills (marketing, finance and legal) and soft skills (communication, networking, negotiation, leadership and team building) that will be valuable for the rest of your life, no matter where you go afterwards.

Minor BioMed Entrepreneurship overview (PDF, 170 KB)