Program
In this 8-month part-time program, you will work in a multidisciplinary team of 3-4 people with different backgrounds (life sciences, engineering, business, design). During a 2-week clinical immersion, you will identify an unmet clinical need in a clinical area and develop an innovative business idea that will later be transformed into a first solution concept and business model. The entire process, inspired by the Biodesign methodology, is supported and mentored by experts from industry and academia.
220 hours of training and mentoring to develop a viable solution and a business model
The program offers 75 hours of live online training sessions twice a week focused on the health industry and healthcare system, product development, and market access, combined with entrepreneur small talks.
In addition to the two weeks of clinical immersion, you will have three days of face-to-face meetings to work on the solution to your chosen unmet need and onsite meetings during graduation week.
See below the different modules and the contents of the academic program.
Modules
Online
- Kick-off week to introduce the program, meet the teams and learn about the clinical immersion
Onsite
- Optional visits to the appointed hospital that will host each team
3 weeks
Onsite
- Clinical immersion at the hospital to shadow the clinical activities to identify unmet clinical needs
- Final session to get prepared for the next phase
2 weeks
Online
- Filtering process of the needs with potential
- Start generation of concept solution
- Lectures
- Mentoring and Coaching sessions
- Teamwork sessions
13 weeks
Onsite
- 3 days onsite to work on the solution
Online
- Work on the solution development for the selected need
- Work on the implementation model (design of the business model)
- Lectures
- Mentoring and Coaching sessions
- Teamwork sessions
15 weeks
Academic program
- The future of the life sciences: trends and patterns
- Medtech industry
- Digital health industry
- Healthcare systems & economics
- Private healthcare insurances
- Health & disease in the developing world
- Medical device development
- Globalization: A golden era for innovation
- Artificial intelligence in health
- Robotics and sensors
- Legal & IP basics
- Medical products regulatory
- Business models in the healthcare industry
- The healthcare industry – Value chains
- Customer discovery
- Reimbursement basics
- Health technology assessment
- Clinical trials in medical devices