Last modified: 05 Aug 2021 13:04
This course will describe the basic language of business and give examples of large versus small businesses in the bioscience area. Intellectual property rights will be explained as will how present your business and how to set up a small biotech company. A comparison will be made of the big Pharma business model and that of small biotech businesses.
| Study Type | Postgraduate | Level | 5 |
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| Term | First Term | Credit Points | 15 credits (7.5 ECTS credits) |
| Campus | Aberdeen | Sustained Study | No |
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This course will describe the basic language of business and give examples of large versus small businesses in the bioscience area. The importance of Intellectual Property (IP) will be presented. The course will provide a framework for setting up (spinning-out) a biotech business from a University and presenting this business to investors or commercial partners. Throughout this course, comparisons will be made to the stark differences seen between business models of global “big-pharma” and those of small, drug-discovery biotech companies.
Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 20 | |
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| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 30 | |
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| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 30 | |
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| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 20 | |
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All written work is marked with written comments. Oral feedback is given on all work when required or deemed necessary. |
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There are no assessments for this course.
| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Factual | Understand | Understand Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) and how to use them to protect ideas/inventions including Patents |
| Conceptual | Analyse | Discuss the drug development process and how this impacts on the commercialisation of life-science “assets”, risks and rewards in big Pharma and small biotech |
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