New Venture Creation: Entrepreneurship for the 21st Century

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The tools and techniques taught in this programme will benefit a wide range of professionals across industries, geographic regions and functional roles. This module will equip you with the skills and mindset required to create your own business or to create a new venture as part of an existing enterprise. It adopts various perspectives to provide a holistic picture of the entrepreneurial process, including but not limited to the practical aspects of the intellectual, behavioural, and emotional demands associated with starting a new venture. As Head of Life Science investment, Christine has a focus on drug discovery with a broad portfolio of technologies, including University of Cambridge spin-outs Carrick, STORM, Z-factor, PhoreMost, Qkine and PolyProX.

The six-week Innovation and Intrapreneurship: Winning Strategies for New Venture Creation online programme will help you identify critical innovation opportunities while setting up an independent unit for growth.

Whether the gamble is a whaling voyage setting sail from New Bedford or the newest startup in Silicon Valley, VC is not just a model of finance that has proven difficult to replicate in other countries. Andrew has led and supported a large number of spin-out transactions, including Purespring Therapeutics (a Syncona-backed renal gene therapy company) and IRISi Ltd (an award winning social enterprise established to promote and improve the healthcare response to domestic violence and abuse).

Being part of the Venture Creation programme gives you access to insights from industry experts, coaches, successful entrepreneurs and your peers to help you maximise the potential in your idea and your team.The assessment of the module is designed to test students understanding and critical appreciation of the key concepts and issues associated with entrepreneurial activities, and their ability to apply them through the development and critical evaluation of a business plan. A venture capitalist (VC) works with entrepreneurs to foster their growth and success in the marketplace.