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Course development: Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Biosystems Engineering

An emerging paradigm in Universities is to shift from graduates being job seekers towards them being job creators. This module will be developed to ease the transition from university to work in a global context and will address the idea of "How do students make BSEN work for them?"

Examples of existing courses that may form the basis of this new one can be found at UCD (here) and UIUC (here).

Current thinking on the module is that it will be based around the concept of developing a business plan for a BSEN related product, process or service. The plan would include consideration of:
  • the product
  • the target market
  • the rationale for the business (the business proposition)
  • market research
  • the company structure
  • intellectual property
  • route to market
  • financial projections
  • investment required
  • risks and problems
How might it work?
  • work in team (global market research, global product)
  • deliver online?
  • use standard products / processes / services
Current activity:A working group was formed under the guidance of F. Ayuga
Last updated:02-06-2010

Partners 

N. M. Holden UCD
M. L. Wolfe VT
R. S. Gates UIUC
D. Briassoulis AUA
F. Ayuga UPM
G. Scarascia-Mugnozza UniBa

EU Coordinator:

Prof Nicholas M Holden
UCD Bioresources Research Centre / Biosystems Engineering
UCD School of Agriculture, Food Science and Veterinary Medicine
Room 3.03, Agriculture and Food Science Centre
University College Dublin
Belfield, Dublin 4
IRELAND

US Coordinator:

Dr Mary Leigh Wolfe
Biological Systems Engineering
305 Seitz Hall
Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061
USA

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University College Dublin
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