This is an advanced module and designed for students who have studied management topics previously. The content will cover complex topics which are not suited to students with no prior knowledge of subjects related to the field.

The module sits at the interface between bioscience and business, covering the elements of management science that are most relevant to bioscience. Bioscience often has a long, complex route from innovation to implementation. Hence the content includes integration with practice, bioscience firms, medical behaviours, as well as the pillars of intellectual property, regulation and investment choices. How to gain stakeholder support is also included, for example with regular pitch sessions that ask students to communicate science eg departmental research - to different audiences It is taught by Senior Teaching Fellow Fiona Reid, who has 15 years’ experience of the bioscience/business interface, including tech transfer, innovation in firms, and science entrepreneurship.

Aims of the module: 1) It aims to engage bioscientists and other interested students so they can interact with the business and institutional environments where scientific innovation occurs. 2) It will familiarise students with the innovation pathway from idea to actions. 3) This module is supportive of UCL’s key strategic aim as laid out in the Council White Paper 2011-2021 to be a global leader in enterprise through knowledge exchange, entrepreneurship and collaboration with commercial and social enterprise. Cross-departmental study options at this interface support this College aim.

This module uses the connected curriculum model to create an interface between the School of Management’s innovation expertise and UCL's exemplary bioscience departments. The module will enable students to understand, navigate and apply business thinking to: medical innovation in general, to UCL's bioscience research base, and the stakeholder ecosystem around bioscience innovation. Healthcare has specific, complex business environments with many public sector, private sector and professional threads running through. Awareness of how to manage this complexity will support impact.