Entrepreneurship and Business Planning in health/life sciences

6^th – 10^th October 2014,
at SKEMA Business School, Sophia-Antipolis, France

The Academy organized by SKEMA aims at providing participants the necessary tools for planning and executing on their business ideas, transforming them from mere ideas to successful ventures. As for all Health2Market training activities, participation is free of charge.

Detailed programme

Context and training description

Entrepreneurship is the art of recognition and exploitation of opportunities. Transforming opportunities into entrepreneurial ventures requires that individuals not only possess knowledge, but that they also have the cognitive abilities that allow them to formulate, value and exploit that knowledge. Particular focus will be put on the health/life science issues that arise when trying to create a new venture.

Participants will experience the entrepreneur?s mindset and acquire methods and tools to structure, formulate and pitch their business plan through an intense accelerated academy. They will benefit from cross-fertilization with their peers, and best practice transfers, coaching and feedbacks from entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and key stakeholders of local innovation systems.

Join us to?

• Evaluate the potential of your innovation with the ISMA 360° methodology
• Experience the combination of skills required to launch a new venture and practice the entrepreneurial mindset and toolkit
• Develop and formulate the synthetized pitched business plan for your innovation
• Pitch in front of peers, investors and stakeholders to provide a clear, short and valuable understanding of your entrepreneurial project

Who should attend

This training is dedicated to health/life science researchers, entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs holding an entrepreneurial project.

SKEMA Business School

SKEMA Business School, the School of Knowledge Economy and Management is a leading international business school in the field of innovation management. With more than 40 faculty members and scholars specialized in the domains of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, SKEMA has been developing learning tools and methods to bridge the gap between theory and the practice of strategic management of innovation and entrepreneurship. SKEMA expertise is disseminated from its French, USA, and Chinese campuses and incubators throughout its 30000 alumni and hundreds of entrepreneurs trained in its entrepreneurship executive education programs.