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Master's Degree in Biotechnology of Environment and Health
MBMAMS01-2-015
Biotechnology Projects Management
General description and schedule Teaching Guide

Coordinator/s:

JOSE FRANCISCO PARRA FERNANDEZ
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SARA MARIA ANDRES VIZAN
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Faculty:

FRANCISCO DE ASIS ORTEGA FERNANDEZ
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(English Group)
SARA MARIA ANDRES VIZAN
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(English Group)

Contextualization:

This is a theoretical as well as practical course whose contents are related to the rest of the subjects in the Business Management Initiative Module, which aims to provide the students with basic skills on business creation and evaluation of biotechnological projects

Requirements:

No specific requirements are needed for this course.

Competences and learning results:

The aim of this course is that students acquire the skills needed to design and innovate biotechnology processes through the application of biotechnology to obtain products that contribute to sustainable development and lead projects and processes for obtaining products from application Biotechnology: These are the points to work on: 
• Have the ability to plan and carry out a biotech project
• Have an integrated view of the process of research, development and innovation (R + D + i ) since the discovery of new knowledge to the development of specific applications based on such knowledge, and market introduction of new biotechnology products or services
The skills expected to aqcuire from this course are:
• Proper preparation, discussion and presentation by the student of practical tasks and tutorials.
• Knowing how  to propose a project about an innovative idea identifying the different phases of implementation.
• Understanding and knowing how to comment  R + D + i projects in a reasoned and coherent manner. 
• Understanding and discussing imformation on real biotech companies, their management and operations.
• Developing a correct project application report and patent application.

Contents:

• Introduction
• Generation of business ideas in the field of biotechnology
• Pre- feasibility analysis of proposed business projects

Methodology and work plan:

The teaching-learning process is a shared task in which teacher and students are involved in a joint and responsible manner: the teacher should encourage, facilitate and guide student to learn and, as an active part of this process and in addition to attending classes,  you must also make commitments that involve participate in discussions, asking questions, expressing opinions, asking for guidance or suggesting new approaches and ways to improve the quality of teaching.
The methodology consists of three blocks with the following sequence of activities:
• Lectures (classroom activity): presentation by the teacher of the main objectives of a topic , developing the most important or most difficult content for students. The teachers will pose practical situations related to the contents and objectives of the subject for the students to be solved.
• Off-site work for each lecture class. Based on the teachings of the lecture classes of point 1 , students must prepare a seminar, solve a case , conduct design a study or research or propose solutions to problems or practical course raised by the teacher. It will serve to deepen the topic discussed in the lectures and applying knowledge to real situations.
• Classroom practice (classroom work) students will present and discuss, under the supervision of the teacher, the results of off-site work developed in point 2. These two hours of classroom practices will take place some tome after the lecture class to help students prepare their research and work.  The activity developed in these classroom practices will assess the acquisition of knowledge on the subject by the students .
• Group Tutoring for each previous block , usually coinciding with the period prior to staff development work, to guide students on how to prepare it.

Exceptionally, if health conditions require it, non-presential teaching activities may be included. In this case, students will be informed of the changes made.

Assessment of students learning:

  • Ongoing assessment of attendance at lectures , practical classes , tutorials and virtual classroom ( 10%).
  • Continuous assessment of participation in classroom practices , capacity for analysis and discussion of articles or other sources of information, and the organization and oral presentation of the results of their work ( 40%).
  • Written (50 % ) examination consisting of a test similar to those proposed in the seminars content. The exam will take place in Spanish. For international students the exam will be provided in other languages.

Exceptionally, if health conditions require it, non-presential evaluation methods may be included. In this case, students will be informed of the changes made.

In cases with the right to a duly accredited "differentiated evaluation" that entail the impossibility of participating in face-to-face activities, the continuous evaluation may be partially or totally replaced by the performance of non-face-to-face tasks, or by an additional specific test.

Resources, bibliography and documentation:

  • Monografia. El negocio de la biotecnología. Luis RuizAvila. Nota d’economia 97-98. 3.er cuatrimestre 2010
  • P.R. Foster, 101 Métodos para generar ideas: como estimular la creatividad (3ª ed.) , DEUSTO S.A. EDICIONES, 2007
  • Foster, Jack: Cómo generar ideas. Editorial Norma