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Information about the course held spring 2024
Duration: 2 modules (4 days per module) in March and April, 2024.
- Module 1: 12–15 March, Oslo, Norway.
- Module 2: 16–19 April, Holte, Denmark.
Location: Oslo in Norway and Holte in Denmark.
Participants: PhD students, post-docs, clinicians, young assistant professors, young clinicians, researchers.
Maximum capacity: 60.
Admission: Based on CV and motivational letter. For PhDs to be considered, it is required to include a supervisor recommendation letter (confirmation of acceptance of your enrolment in the course is sufficient).
Application deadline: 1 February, 2024.
Program: TBA. You can find the 2022 programme on the Copenhagen University webpage. Be aware the course structure has changed.
Language: The teaching language throughout the course is English.
About the course
The course will equip medical, healthcare, and life science researchers with tools and knowledge to innovate services for patients, create companies based on their research ideas, or bring their research ideas into existing companies.
You will meet with and learn from leaders in academia, hospitals, and healthcare companies.
Methods
Case-based learning is a core part of the programme, where the participants are given the opportunity to develop an idea from their own research environment. By the end of module 1, you will be grouped in a team of 4-6 people. You will decide on a topic based on a team member's own research. You will work with this team during the end of module 1, and module 2. This project will be the center for our case-based learning and so, you will use this project to apply all theoretical knowledge developed during the course.
Please, note that you may or may not work with your own project. This will depend solely on your team's decision. It is not a requirement to have a commercially-ready idea/project to participate in the course.
Admission
The School of Health Innovation is a Scandinavian programme open for Life Science/Health PhDs, postdocs, young assistant professors, and young clinicians from ANY Scandinavian public university or hospital (Norway, Sweden, and Denmark).
Admission is based on CV (2-pages in pdf), motivation. For PhDs to be considered, it is required to include a supervisor recommendation letter (confirmation of acceptance of your enrolment in the course is sufficient).
Expenses
The course is free of cost and the School of Health Innovation covers breakfast, lunch, and dinners pre-booked by SHI as well as three nights of accommodation for each module. We reimburse travel expenses up to 2,000 DKK. per module. Taxa is to be preapproved and no additional accommodations are reimbursed.
Practical issues
The course gives 7.5 ECTS (PhD level). ECTS are optional, and one can also apply without ECTS.
Learning outcomes
After completion of the course the participants will be able to:
- Learn how to build a business in healthcare based on their own research.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the opportunities of health innovation and entrepreneurship for utilization of research.
- Apply scientific background and new knowledge of health innovation to address challenges and develop services and products within a clinical setting and a biopharma/medtech setting.
- Use various business tools for ideation and feasibility studies; to develop, prototype and test solutions in response to user needs.
- Develop a business plan based upon a novel idea and communicate a business plan to people within the startup world.
- Demonstrate an understanding of how Tech Transfer Offices and other innovation support actors can support the commercialization process.
- Apply the basics in financing a startup company from private and governmental funding bodies.
- Discuss and argue for different types of intellectual property and intellectual assets, and understand different patent strategies.
- Assess their skills in health innovation and reflect on the exploitation of their own research.
- Combine being a scientist and a health innovator/entrepreneur.
Examination
In order to get a certificate of participation and be entitled to 7.5 ECTS:
- You must attend at least 80% of the course. Attendance will be registered.
- Participate in the oral presentation by the end of module 3.
- Written individual report (2-3 pages) in which you reflect on your main learning outcomes from the course and how you may utilize this new learning in your career.
The grading is based on the pass/fail system.
Collaboration
The course is a Nordic enterprise developed in partnership between:
- The University of Oslo (UiO)
- Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
- Karolinska Institutet (KI) in Stockholm
- University of Copenhagen (UCPH)
Contact info
- Bjarte Reve: bjarte.reve@medisin.uio.no
- Tonje Steigedal: tonje.s.steigedal@ntnu.no
- Samer Yammine: samer.yammine@ki.se
- Lene N?rby Nielsen, noerby@sund.ku.dk
- Lilian Jeanette Rasmussen, lilian.rasmussen@sund.ku.dk