LSI4015 – Introduction to (life science) start-up world

You will have the ability to develop a life science start-up, including the design and validation of its business model, innovation, and strategy. In other words, you will have acquired basic skills for running an innovative life science start-up. In addition, you will acquire basic background knowledge about innovative business development. After completing the course, you will have the following competencies:

• Being able to perform an analysis of innovative business models including financial projections- and valuations
• Understand innovation management in life science-based business, including innovation strategy and business strategy and their interlinking as well as good innovative management
• Being able to use relevant concepts and models and you have acquired specialized knowledge (life science-specific) to analyze and design sustainable technological innovations including biotech-economic relationships as well as innovation design methods
• Understand the start-up world, in particular, you will have gained insights into venture capital theory and reality
• Being able to develop ethical aspects, branding, marketing, and performance of a start-up
• Work in multidisciplinary teams

This course is part of the Life Science Innovation (honors certificate).

Students who are admitted to study programmes at UiO must each semester register which courses and exams they wish to sign up for in Studentweb.

Only students enrolled in the Life Science Innovation (honors certificate) can be admitted to this course.

• LSI4005 – Introduction to innovation in life science
• LSI4010 – Business tools

The teaching consists of problem-based real-world cases and oral presentations, lectures and flipped classrooms, pitches from industry/partners, and a group innovation project.

Attendance at the first lecture is mandatory. You will lose your seat in the course if you do not show up or contact us at studieinfo@mn.uio.no before the first lecture starts.

Attendance at 80 percent of the course and compulsory submissions must be approved to pass the exam.

Access to teaching: A student who has completed compulsory instruction and coursework and has had these approved, is not entitled to repeat that instruction and coursework. A student who has been admitted to a course, but who has not completed compulsory instruction and coursework or had these approved, is entitled to repeat that instruction and coursework, depending on available capacity.

Compulsory participation and approved assignments are only valid in the semester in which they were approved.

The form of the exam is a portfolio exam with a final oral exam. The folder must contain submitted reflection notes and a summary of the case. During the oral exam, the folder's content, experiences from the case study, and the student's oral performance are assessed.

The compulsory activities must be approved to do the final oral exam, and they are only valid in the semester in which they were approved.

Students who can document a valid reason for absence from the regular examination are offered a postponed examination at the beginning of the next semester.

Re-scheduled examinations are not offered to students who withdraw during, or did not pass, the original examination.