biotech entrepreneurship training program heidelberg 2016/17

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BiotechEntrepreneurship Training Program

4 teachers

9 courses

135 participantsfrom 10 different

organizations

BiotechEntrepreneurship

and Leadership Lectures

6 editions

30 speakers

BiotechEntrepreneurship

Online Content

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October 24: Matthias Baumhauer, Mint medical, Heidelberg: The DKFZ-spinoffMint Medical: lessons learned

November 07: Patrick Pfeffer, Aescuvest - Crowdfunding your startup, Frankfurt

November 21: Wei Wang und Team, GeneWerk, Heidelberg

December 05: Tim Kaufmann, enmodes, Aachen

December 19: Felix Nickel, iSurgeon, Heidelberg + Christmas Special

January 09: Benjamin Zierock, abcmedien, Heidelberg: Developing mobile anddigital applications for health care providers

January 23: Andreas Wüpper, Fresenius Medical Care Ventures GmbH, Bad Homburg

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Alexander Würfel, AbbVie

Andrea Pfundmeier, Boxcryptor / SecombaGmbH (Winner of the German Founder Price 2014)

Christian Tidona, BioMed X Innovation Center / BioRN Network

Claus Kremoser, Phenex Pharmaceuticals

Colin Bennett, Flames a Mile High

Friedrich Richter, AbbVie

Georg Matheis, Novalung GmbH

Gitte Neubauer, Cellzome

Ingmar Hoerr, Curevac

Jürgen Bauer, EMBLEM Technology Transfer

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Matthias Klaften, amcure GmbH

Marius Rosenberg, Medical Adhesive

Revolution (MAR) GmbH

Patrick Most, uniQure Germany/InoCard

Peter Johann, NGN Capital

Ralf Eckert, Leica Biosystems Nussloch GmbH

Roel Bulthuis, Merck Serono Ventures

Stefan Duhr, Nanotemper (Winner of the

German Founder Price 2014)

Thomas Höger, Apogenix GmbH

Vikas Shah, Swiscot Group (Managing

Director), Thought Strategy (Founder)

Volker Stadler, PEPperPRINT

Dr. Christian Tidona

@ChristianTidona

Dr. Bodo Brückner

@BodoBrueckner

Eva-Maria Gottmann

@Evsche

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Selina Hutzl

@selinahutzl

• Compact course for students, PhDs, and postdocs in Life Sciences & Health Technology at Heidelberg University

• 2 ECTS for master students

• Started in 2009

• Participants from:

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What are our goals?

• Generation of a basic understanding of intellectual property, innovation, and economic value creation from academic research results

• Development of a viable and compelling business idea

• Presentation of the business idea in front of a critical audience

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How does it work?

• Basics are provided in three lectures

• Participants are grouped in “founder teams” to jointly work on business ideas based on current research articles or own ideas

• Teams present their business ideas

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Summer semester 2014:12 participantsFeedback survey:7 participants (58%)

Winter semester 2013/14:37 participantsFeedback survey:20 participants (55%)





• BETP fills a gap in the curriculum on entrepreneurship

• BETP also improves presentations skills

• Everyone would recommend it to his peers

• Peers play an important role as reason toapply

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“Very useful intro toentrepreneurship.”

“It's a unique seminar thatgives a feeling for economicconsiderations in the fieldof biology.”

“It is a great chance to learn something that I was never told at school/university from people who are credible.”

“Good chance to practice team work with people who you didn't know before.”

“It was greatfun.”

• to get an idea about entrepreneurship in general since it is not part of the master program

• to better understand how biotech inventions can be developed into marketable products

• to get better idea about what Entrepreneurshipreally is and how to start a business

• feeling there was a lack of economical context in my university program

• to learn more about how I could generate my own start-up and what are the important business-related and financial things to consider

• “Highly skilled instructors; feedback on the final presentations was very useful.”

• pitching with a team

• the spirit was awesome

• the opportunity to meet people who have the same interests as me

• working out the business idea out of research results

• how knowledge came naturally while preparing the pitch

• the presentations and team work

• elaborated feedback and suggestions

• “Good atmosphere; challenging team; very new kind of problem to solve; work together with people of different backgrounds”

• additional material on the webpage

German EIT Health GmbH

Im Neuenheimer Feld 130.1

69120 Heidelberg

Phone: +49 6 21 76 44 610

Email: [email protected]

Web: eithealth.eu/clc/eit-health-clc-germany/

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