BioBusiness and Innovation Programme (BBIP) newsletter December 2017

This newsletter provides a short status of The student perspective of BBIP BBIP activities for our students, faculty, in- Informal meetings and discussions between dustry collaborators and other stakeholders. BBIP students and CBS faculty offers oppor- tunities for students and faculty co-developing Internships improvements of the BBIP programme. Stu- Arrangements about internships for our BBIP dents are also represented in the study board students have now been completed. This year of BBIP. This fall BBIP students were repre- the following organisations will host BBIP sented by Zulema Diaz Lopez. internships in the spring of 2018: , Novozymes, Astra Zeneca, Abbvie, Zealand Pharma, Leo Incubator, & Ac- celerace.

A number of interesting internship tasks are being planned, which will facilitate learnings about bioscience and specific challenges and Zulema Diaz Lopez, BBIP student & member of the opportunities of commercialisation. study board and Palle Høy Jakobsen, study director.

Extracurricular events Academic collaborations within BBIP edu- This fall a number of company guest speakers cational activities have provided valuable teaching sessions in An academic collaboration has been estab- the different BBIP modules. In addition, ex- lished in the relation to the BBIP-5 module on tracurricular events are excellent opportuni- entrepreneurship with the School of Health ties for bridging the Scandinavian Bio- Innovation. The School of Health Innovation industry with academia and the is an initiative established by University of Business School in particular. External guest Oslo, the Norwegian University of Science speakers provide valuable learnings to BBIP and Technology in Trondheim, and Karolin- students and create new network opportuni- ska Institutet in Stockholm. ties.

The deliverables from CBS to the School This fall Bjarke Ebert, Lead Medical Advisor have two components: 1) Hands‐on experi- at Lundbeck, gave a lecture about ”Challeng- ence of bio‐entrepreneurship obtained from es in psychiatric research for the pharmaceu- parts of the Bio‐Entrepreneurship project tical industry – the story of an antidepressant course at CBS and 2) tailor‐made guidance pharmaceutical drug”. and mentoring offered specifically to the school participants.

The BBIP entrepreneurship course is chaired for the first time by Markus Simeth from CBS and Will Wright from Accelerace. Projects for the Business Plan project work has been pro- vided by Accelerace, which hereby support the Scandinavian academic-accelerator envi- ronment. Bjarke Ebert teaching

1 Henrik Schmidt, leader development special- will be implemented in fall with the next class ist at Novo Nordisk, gave a lecture about of BBIP students. ”The importance of personal skills in relation to recruitment and leadership development”. More coordinated educational activities be- tween the University of Copenhagen, the Danish Technical University and Copenhagen Business School are being considered as a logical evolution of the BBIP collaboration, which started, when these three Danish aca- demic organisations established BBIP.

Industry has supported the BBIP master pro- gramme with internships, guest speakers and financial support. We are planning to estab- lish a new industrial advisory board in 2018 to guide the development of BBIP educational activities. Henrik Schmidt teaching We look into new ways of fostering more At the planned semester closing event on Feb- network opportunities and are planning some ruary 2nd, the key note presentation about the joint activities with Synapse - Life Science status of Danish Biotech will be provided by Connect, which is a student-driven, non-profit Martin Bonde, Chairman of the Board, Dan- organization in the Copenhagen Area that ish Biotech & CEO, Affibody. The Patent creates events, workshops, and networking company, Høiberg, supports this educational opportunities for students and young profes- activity by offering an award to the students sionals with an interest in pursuing careers in producing the best business plan. the life science environment. Finally, early talks which may facilitate more international Revision and optimisation of BBIP struc- collaborations in relation to BBIP have also ture and activities started. The innovative master programme, BBIP, within Biobusiness is a unique educational Please join me with good ideas about further activity, which was established and governed improving the BBIP structure and activities! by Prof. Finn Valentin of CBS with much of the logistical support in recent years offered Many thanks to students, teachers, supervi- by Katla Ran Sturludottir. They have in col- sors, collaborators and other stakeholders in laboration with CBS faculty brought this edu- creating such an inspiring environment. cational activity to a high quality level. Wishing you all a Merry Christmas and a The environment of BBIP is changing with happy New Year new educational policies implemented in in recent years and with continuous- ly changing public-private innovation dynam- Palle Høy Jakobsen, Study Director of BBIP, ics. December 2017. [email protected] We are now planning a number of improve- ments of the existing BBIP structure, which

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