Biotech Entrepreneurship Heidelberg Overview

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BiotechEntrepreneurship Training Program

3 teachers

8 courses

135 participantsfrom 10 different

organizations

BiotechEntrepreneurship

and Leadership Lectures

5 editions

23 speakers

BiotechEntrepreneurship

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October 12: Christian Piepenbrock, serial entrepreneur

October 26: Markus Wilhelms, usMIMA, Barcelona

November 09: Hong Cheng, Sanofi

November 23: Christian Tidona, BioMed X / BioRN Network

December 07: Thomas Schulz, Société Coopérative Healthbank, Genève

January 11: Christoph Zrenner, MedTech Accelerator Tübingen

January 25: Adrian Carter, Boehringer Ingelheim

January 27: Colin Bennet, Flames A Mile High

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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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• 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%)


Summer semester 2015:13 participantsFeedback survey:13 participants (100%)


• 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.”

“Gives a newperspective.”

“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

• curiosity• feeling there was a lack of economical context in

my university program• wondering how you can start a company• “real life” impression• only seminar available on entrepreneurship at

Heidelberg University

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

• pitching with a team

• instructions for how to make business plan

• working out the business idea out of research results

• 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

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Next BETP course starts on April 27!

05:00 – 07:00 p.m.

Further information:

www.biotech-entrepreneurship.com

BioRN Cluster Management GmbH

Im Neuenheimer Feld 582

69120 Heidelberg

Phone: +49 (0) 6221 4305 111

Email: [email protected]

Web: www.BioRN.org

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