When science meets entrepreneurship.

Science industries, such as the health and medical industry, are experiencing increases in competition regarding commercializing, patenting, and funding of scientific outputs. As such, scientists are facing increased expectation to engage in academic entrepreneurship. OrganoVIR (Organoids for Virus Research) is a Horizon2020 Innovative Training Network (ITN) that aims to train Early Stage Researchers (ESRs) to lead innovation in the field of human organoids for virus research. To assist them in this process, OrganoVIR introduced a pre-Master of Business Administration program that introduced OrganoVIR's ESRs to the tools and knowledge necessary to navigate the competitive industry. In this article, we describe this innovative pre-Master of Business Administration program and highlight the importance as well as the need for having a pre-Master of Business Administration programs in a scientific training network.

Informations de copyright

Copyright: © 2023 Satrio D et al.

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

Competing interests: Vanessa Rijkeboer and Edo Roos Lindgreen, co-authors of this essay, are affiliated with the Amsterdam Business School and were responsible for coordinating the OrganoVIR pre-MBA programme. Vanessa Rijkeboer and Edo Roos Lindgreen have no connections with organizations who will gain or lose financially from the online listing of this work. Vanessa Rijkeboer and Edo Roos Lindgreen are not applying for any patents. Neither of them has received fees for patent related content. Vanessa Rijkeboer and Edo Roos Lindgreen have not co-authored a paper with any of the authors of the paper in question in the past three years.