| CODE | EBI3090 | ||||||||||||||||
| TITLE | Business for Bioscience | ||||||||||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 03 - Years 2, 3, 4 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||||||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 6 | ||||||||||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 4 | ||||||||||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Centre for Entrepreneurship and Business Incubation | ||||||||||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This study-unit shall focus on the importance that early career bioscientists possess a combination of scientific expertise and business awareness to serve as highly valued links between the industrial research process and development /commercialization routes of market. As many science graduates lack even rudimentary business awareness, this study-unit is designed to prepare graduates for employment in the bioscience industry. Study-unit Aims: The aim of this study-unit is to help students recognise the commercial value of scientific research as well as to grasp the key points of how a commercial return on investment is generated by employers such as the pharmaceutical industry. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to explain the basic principles of enterprise including: - Business structures; - Intellectual property; - Innovation life cycles; - Business model; - Market research; - Business planning; - Business budgets; and - Raising finance. 2. Skills: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Prepare product summary; - Undertake market research; and - Create a business budget. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: Handbook to be provided by tutor via VLE. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture and Independent Study | ||||||||||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Russell Smith |
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