School of Health Innovation for professors and managers

How can you increase innovation in your lab? How can you combine being a scientist and a health innovator? These are some of the topics that will be discussed at the innovation intro course for professors, group leaders and managers.

12–13 June, 2024 in Copenhagen Denmark.

First come, first served, the application deadline was 6 May. 

Participants: Assist., Assoc. and full professors, group leaders, clinicians, research coordinators from any public university or hospital from Sweden, Denmark, and Norway.
Maximum capacity: 20 participants from all partner countries (SE, NO, DK) will be accepted.
Admission: Based on CV.
Program: TBA. You can find the program from 2022 here on the webpage of the University of Copenhagen.
Costs: The course is free of cost and all expenses for travel, food, and accommodation are covered by the programme. We reimburse travel expenses up to 2,000 DKK. 

Learning outcomes

  • Commercialization of research-based inventions. What, how and why? Including highlighting some of the IPR differences between countries.
  • Balancing basic research, commercialization and clinical trials.
  • The secrets of the perfect pitch.
  • Introduction to business modelling and team-work / How to formulate business models based on your research idea.
  • Business Model Canvas.

Jeff Skinner, an expert in entrepreneurship and innovation from London Business School, will do a half day seminar with a relevant case based on real biomedical technologies - to explore and illustrate the role that researchers play in leading new ‘medtech’ ventures. 

There will also be a groupwork session, where you will get a chance to identify the commercial potential in your research.

The course happens on an annual basis.

For further inquiries, contact:

Bjarte Reve, project manager for School of Health Innovation (SHI) bjarte.reve@medisin.uio.no

About the School of Health Innovation (SHI)

A collaboration between:

  • The University of Oslo (UiO)
  • Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
  • Karolinska Institutet (KI) in Stockholm
  • University of Copenhagen (KU)
Published June 29, 2022 10:07 AM - Last modified May 7, 2024 11:28 AM