High-tech Enterpreneurship Course – register now!
High-tech Enterpreneurship Course
This 20-hours course (9 lectures – 2 credits) is designed to introduce participants, PhD and undergraduate students from different disciplines (STEM, but also Social Sciences and Humanities) and also young researchers and post-docs, to the basic knowledge and competences about high-tech entrepreneurship.
More precisely, the course will provide participants with the basic understanding of the role, analytics and process of business planning that lead to the creation of new innovative business ventures, especially regarding those which are generated within an academic environment, on the basis of public research.
They will learn and gain direct experience about patents, university-industry collaborations, contract research, starting a new company, marketing high-tech inventions, etc. The objective is to bring participants to have their business model and business plan ready at the end of the course.
Participants will have the opportunity of setting up real proposals for start-ups which they will be able to use for start-up competitions such as Start Cup Toscana or other possible calls launched by Sant’Anna and other universities.
The course is designed mainly – but not only – for participants from universities which are part of the JoTTO initiative (i.e. Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Scuola Normale Superiore, IMT Lucca, IUSS Pavia, GSSI L’Aquila, SISSA Trieste). Students and doctoral researchers from other universities and from EELISA Network (like FAU) can also apply.
The course has been designed both for those who are planning to set up an innovative and/or high-tech start-up and for those who might benefit from the course’s contents in an existing company, in their professional activities or in a research context. The course is organized in collaboration with the EELISA project and Start Cup Toscana.
The course will be in presence, in Pisa. Only students and doctoral researchers from universities which belong to the EELISA network (like FAU) will be allowed to follow via web.
Registration
In order to attend to the course, please register by sending an e mail to a.piccaluga@santannapisa.it
The course is coordinated by Andrea Piccaluga and Alberto Di Minin, who will be present in every lecture, and its contents and organization are shared within the JoTTO initiative. External “guest teachers” will also be invited.
Coordination
Andrea Piccaluga, professor of innovation management at the Institute of Management, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (SSSA), has been delegate for technology transfer at SSSA for many years and president of Netval (Network per la Valorizzazione della Ricerca) from 2014 to 2019.
Alberto Di Minin is professor of management at the Institute of Management, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna. He is also Research Fellow with the Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy (BRIE), University of California – Berkeley. He is the Director of the Confucius Institute of Pisa, and the Director of the Galilei Institute in Chongqing University.
Students interested in obtaining the two credits (CFU) need to follow 80% of the lectures and prepare a business plan for a new innovative start-up at the end of the course, either individually or with other students.
Program
- Lecture #5 – Let’s do it seriously: going beyond the first steps and scaling up. How to deal with industrial and financial partners.
Guest teachers: Gioia Lucarini (Relief) and Massimiliano Simi (MMI)
April 4, 2023 – Aula Magna Storica, Piazza Martiri della Libertà, 33, Pisa
Time: 2.30 pm-4.30 pm
Topics: more about entrepreneurial motivations; how to engage an industrial partner; bridging between university and industry; how to deal with initial funders; from prototype to products: where to find info and technical solutions; to grow or not to grow? Is it better to own a small cake or a slice of a big cake? - Lecture #6 – Tips and tools for valorization of results in the LS sector
Guest teacher: Laura Spinardi (Policlinico di Milano and Netval)
April 19, 2023 – Aula Magna Storica, Piazza Martiri della Libertà, 33, Pisa
Time: 2.30 pm-4.30 pm
Topics: Examples and best practices of intellectual property valorization and exploitation in the field of Life Sciences. What is patentable? Which are the best strategies for the protection of results in these fields. - Lecture #7 – Pitch it well: review your business plan to apply to competitions such as Start Cup Toscana 2023
Guest teacher: Valentina Maltagliati, Valentina Cucino and Alessandra Patrono
May 3, 2023 – Aula Magna Storica, Piazza Martiri della Libertà, 33, Pisa
Time: 4.30 pm-6.30 pm
Topics: how to present your ideas in different contexts. This will be also an opportunity to get ready for the final session. Key aspects to improve in the business plan. This will be also an opportunity to get ready for the Start Cup Competition or Building the future competition - Lecture #8 – Business angels and venture capitalists: how do they decide about financing your start-up?
Nicola Redi
May 8, 2023 – Aula Magna Storica, Piazza Martiri della Libertà, 33, Pisa
Time: 2.30 pm-4.30 pm
The four units can be attended independently of each other.
Further information and the registration can be found on the EELISA Community website
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