Course syllabus

Course Overview

MED999 Applied Business Creation and Entrepreneurship in Biomedicine (22.5 hp)
TEK296 Applied intellectual capital management lp1 HT19 (22.5 hp)

This course is offered in a collaboration between;

• Institute of Medicine at University of Gothenburg,
• Institute of Law at University of Gothenburg, and
• Department of Technology Management and Economics at Chalmers University of Technology.

Contact details

Course purpose

The course consists of four innovation and entrepreneurship projects linked to four different project environments (project incubators). Each project represents a main perspective on innovation, entrepreneurship and management of intellectual assets.

• In a first project, the student will develop an innovation to help patients within the framework of healthcare organization.
  
• In a second project, the student should evaluate one academic environment for utilizing research results.
• In a third project the student should work towards realization of a new idea or equivalent in commercial operations.
  
• In a fourth project, the student should contribute to a project aimed at equality, gender equality and other social sustainability.

Schedule

This course schedule will not be edited in TimeEdit. The course schedule is communicated to the students through the course PM/course guide.

Course literature

Petrusson, U. (2016) Research and Utilization. Title of Swedish first edition: “Forskning och Nytta” (Tre Böcker Förlag AB, Göteborg, Sweden, 2015). Petrusson, U. (2016) Research and Utilization.pdf

Course design

The course is based on seminars iterated with group and individual applied work in projects related to the four different contexts. The students are supervised in relation to the practical work in real projects. 

Changes made since the last occasion

The applied work has gone through an overall rearrangement. This has led to a new setup for applying utilization logics as well as provided less parallel work during the course. The environments are now studied in serial order:

1. Healthcare
2. Difference
3. Research
4. Venture

The assessment portfolio has also become clearer with a examination strategy that follows the work in the environments. Last but not least the whole course has been moved to the new "cross-university" learning platform Canvas.

Learning objectives and syllabus

Learning objectives are described in each syllabus according to the standards of each respective university. Please read in the official syllabus of interest by clicking on the following link:

Course syllabus (GU): Course Syllabus MED999.pdf.

Course syllabus (Chalmers): TEK296.

Examination form

The students are examined through an assessment portfolio consisting of three individual written assignments, as well as three oral group presentations. In addition, the student must participate in mandatory parts in the form of 10 seminars, according to instructions in the course guide.
Absence from a mandatory part can be compensated by an alternative task according to instructions from the course manager.