Innovation and Biomedical Engineering: Understanding New Venture Creation module (BE32007)

Students will be able to understand the core components of being an entrepreneur and the key transferable skills required in a biomedical engineering sector. Our aim is to provide the following:

• Link theories of entrepreneurship to practice.
• Provide students with the opportunity to apply their learning in a realistic context.
• Allow students to experience starting up a business.
• Practice and develop entrepreneurial skills that have been taught in the classroom.
• Develop decision-making skills.
• Experience and learning from negative outcomes.
• The digital entrepreneur and the digital space.
• Understand the purpose, concepts and the key components and processes of developing a biomedical engineering business idea.
• Understand some of the key management functions within a biomedical engineering business
• Understand sustainability, ethics and social corporate responsibility