Johns Hopkins Carey School of Business had it first Entrepreneurship Boot Camp for biomedical entrepreneurs conclude on August 29 with a poster session and a Shark Tank-style pitch event. Nearly two dozen research teams presented their work during the poster session after hearing from experts in team building, founders’ equity, intellectual property, venture management, and other key topics of interest for biomedical start-up enterprises.
Attendees worked to polish their business plans by taping into a broad network of experts based both inside and outside of Johns Hopkins before the final four teams competed in the final pitch session, which had panelists from Baltimore, New York, Washington, D.C., and elsewhere.
The Boot Camp proved that there are a number of exciting biomedical technologies being cultivated at Johns Hopkins, including therapeutics, vaccines, medical devices, and food products made especially for recovering patients.
Nayoung Louie is a Boot Camp organizer and a lecturer in the Discovery to Market technology commercialization course at Carey. Louie believes the four-part event is an important element in fostering the innovation ecosystem at the university.
“This year’s participants are the first to experience the Boot Camp curriculum, and the Carey Business School will continue to support them through mentoring and more events,” Louie said during the poster session.
All Boot Camp participants received a certificate of completion and may compete in the Innovation Factory Summit on September 26 and in the Johns Hopkins Business Plan Competition next spring. In addition, they have been invited to submit their discoveries for feasibility analysis by student teams in the Carey Business School’s Discovery to Market course.
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