Bioscience Innovation and Enterprise UCL

Overview

This ground-breaking Bioscience Innovation and Enterprise MSc spans bioscience, business and innovation. It is designed for enterprising students who want to work across the science-business interface.You will learn the language of business such that you can identify new opportunities from science. You will learn how to fit potential research solutions - from areas such as stem cells, regenerative treatments, digital innovation, imaging and AI - to real-world problems.  Implementing bioscience ideas can be challenging, but the need for innovators who can speak both the language of business and science, has never been greater.

This MSc is based at the  University College London (UCL) Institute of Ophthalmology. The Institute has a global reputation in translational science across many areas - from public health and imaging, through to genetics and neuroscience. The programme also draws on expertise from the clinical excellence of Moorfields Eye Hospital, and from companies like Google DeepMind and the recent Institute spinout, Tenpoint Therapeutics.

What this course will give you

UCL is embedded in a powerful entrepreneurial ecosystem in London. The programme converges expertise from the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, the UCL School of Management and the UCL School of Pharmacy. Students will discover many opportunities to connect with researchers and innovators to explore ideas. There is the chance to work with, and learn from, world-leading scientists, clinicians, digital experts, and entrepreneurs. Graduates from this programme have moved on to careers in consultancy, venture capital, science innovation, and start-ups.

Graduates can expect to gain:

• Deep system understanding of the challenges of new value creation from science
• Practical research and translational techniques to make knowledge transfer happen
• Ability to interrogate science to find innovative opportunities that work
• Skills in communicating potential to resource-providers
• Strategic insight into how to stage-gate the building of a new bioscience business
• An entrepreneurial mindset in leading for good change
• Expertise in navigating the values clashes between science and business
• Financial, operational and business understanding to ask intelligent questions
• Specific communication and leadership skills for bio-business success