The Health Innovation Bootcamp is a fast-paced, rigorous, and collaborative educational opportunity that teaches you the foundations of health entrepreneurship, with a focus on innovative therapeutics and diagnostic technologies. Over the course of 5 two-hour sessions held in-person at The Clinic @ Mac, you will work with your peers to articulate the value of your research from a commercialization lens. You will learn and apply principles of intellectual property, product-market fit & competitors, business model development, and fundraising to exit academia for the development of your innovation directly from MGD Health ICE educators and our network of experts.
Through the Health Innovation Bootcamp, research graduate students and postdoctoral fellows will have the opportunity to learn and apply the following skills to their own research projects:
Session 1: Intellectual Property
Session 2: Product-Market Fit and Competitors
Session 3: Business Model Development
Session 4: Fundraising to Exit Academia
Session 5: researchers will have the opportunity to discuss their strategy for commercializing their ongoing laboratory research.