Entrepreneurship is key pathway for delivering and capturing value from new health and medical discoveries. All health science graduate students can benefit from having a basic understanding of entrepreneurial thinking — how to drive innovations forward in new or existing enterprises. This module will equip you with an entrepreneurial toolkit intended to help you to identify new opportunities; designing new business ideas; and more effectively manage innovation and commercialization processes.

The module will introduce you to the basics of Business Design — an approach that combines human-centered design and business strategy to delivering and capturing value from new discoveries. You will use a platform to build the key elements of popular business model canvases to explore, assess, and decide on the most critical factors in building business around your own idea/venture.