Doctors, researchers, and other health professionals gathered at the Johns Hopkins University on July 21 for the second part of the JHU Entrepreneurship Bootcamp series. A joint effort between Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering, Carey Business School, and School of Medicine, the multi-session summer event’s purpose was to foster entrepreneurship across the university. Phillip Phan, Professor and Executive Vice Dean of the Carey Business School and one of the event’s co-organizers, said that the Entrepreneurship Bootcamp was designed to help inventors accelerate their ideas from concept to first design, with the goal of commercialization in a start-up.
“This year, we are conducting a pilot for the medical campus to prove the curriculum and pedagogy,” Phan said. “If successful, next year we will be rolling it out across Hopkins as a summer start-up academy.”
Phan added:
“Although Hopkins is late to the start-up game when compared to such institutions as Stanford or MIT, her intellectual capacity and entrepreneurial energy are second to none,” says Phan. “This and other efforts around campus to ignite ‘start-up nation’ at Hopkins are already bearing fruit.”
Lawrence Aronhime, Senior Lecturer and Director of the Entrepreneurship & Management Program at the JHU Center for Leadership Education, is among the event’s organizers. He says the Entrepreneurship Bootcamp shows the changing culture at Hopkins: “For those of us who have been around 15, 20 years, it shows a change in the entrepreneurial climate.”