PROJECT FINANCIAL APPRAISAL|REGULATORY|INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY|RESEARCH IDEA|START-UP

This course gives “hands-on” training in the evaluation of ideas and the execution of an appropriate business plan. The exercise focuses on setting...

Business Planning in Bioprocessing and Life Sciences (BENG0035)

This course gives “hands-on” training in the evaluation of ideas and the execution of an appropriate business plan. The exercise focuses on setting up a start-up company, but the issues encountered such IP evaluation, regulatory considerations, costing of operations etc are useful tools in planning in all businesses within this sector of industry. The students will work in groups of no more than five, each undertaking a role within the start-up company. Workshop sessions will act as surgeries to the ‘new companies’ with the help of expert industrial mentors. Each session will focus on a different aspect of company set-up.

 

Upon completion of the course, a student should be able to:

Carry out detailed commercial feasibility of a research idea
	Prepare manufacturing options and incorporate clinical trials requirements
	Develop outline of intellectual property requirements
	Learn how to calculate “bottom-up” and “top-down” cost of goods
	Prepare financial data (profit and loss, cashflow, NPV)
	Prepare a business plan based on a technical idea
	Familiarise with working in teams
	Learn to work to very strict timelines
	Fine tune verbal communication skills
mmunication skills

Module Content

The course introduces the skills required to develop, pitch, direct, shoot and edit documentary films. Teaching is structured around weekly...

Documentary and Ethnographic Film Practice (Core Course) (ANTH0111)

This module will explore the causes and consequences of the ‘South Sea Bubble’ of 1719-21, the first modern financial crisis in Britain and a...

The South Sea Bubble: Causes, Crisis and Consequences (HIST0066)

This module will explore the causes and consequences of the ‘South Sea Bubble’ of 1719-21, the first modern financial crisis in Britain and a defining moment in its economic, political and social history. Analysed by contemporaries and generations of economists since then as everything from a rational speculation to an extraordinary popular delusion, we will use primary sources to study the workings of early global finance and to interrogate these analyses, and also to explore the political, social and cultural impact of this financial crisis upon investors and the wider British society. It will therefore be an opportunity not only to examine how financial crises have been understood in economic terms but also to see how finance and financiers have been perceived, portrayed and pilloried, and the wider questions they raise about morality, greed, private interests and the public good.