How to Start a Biotech Venture

Biotech companies are revolutionizing the world we live in. However, when starting a biotech venture, innovators face business challenges that go beyond regular business formation–protecting their intellectual property, securing enough financial resources, and attracting key employees and advisors. By the end of the course, you will have the knowledge and confidence to tackle a plethora of strategic and operational challenges you are going to face as a biotech entrepreneur. To do so the course offers insights into how to build a high-performing team, how to manage the business's finances, how to ensure the venture is aligned with the market you are operating in, how to protect your intellectual property, and how to navigate legal and regulatory challenges. Thus, this course can help you to get your biotech innovation off the ground and helps you to broaden your perspective in terms of what are key business aspects to be mindful of as an early-stage biotech entrepreneur. The course is brought to you by the Technical University of Munich - one of Europe’s most outstanding universities in research and innovation. It offers academic expertise on biotech entrepreneurship which is expanded by the hands-on expertise of those working in the field such as industry experts, patent attorneys, and entrepreneurs who will share their advice and experiences. 3b:T

• Comprehensive understanding of how to establish and grow a successful team
• Mastering the basics of finance and accounting needed to run a venture
• Knowledge of market-related challenges and how to address those early on
• Protecting and transferring the business’ intellectual property
• Awareness of the legal obligations when founding a biotech venture

• This course is suitable for you if you have a background in life sciences and are interested in bringing a biotech innovation to market–be it as an entrepreneur, in a biotech venture, or as an intrapreneur within a larger corporation.