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This course focuses on the knowledge, skills, and attitudes that enable entrepreneurs to pursue opportunities in life sciences. Students form teams to experience each step of the entrepreneurial process. The end result is an opportunity assessment of a business idea and the opportunity to pitch the opportunity to an active Venture Capital firm. Emphasis is placed on a hands-on approach with learning supplemented by cases appropriate to each phase of the course. Entrepreneurs and subject experts provides students with an experiential and in-depth examination of the challenges involved in identifying and assessing an opportunity for an entrepreneurial venture, whether in business-to-business or business-to-consumer settings. By entrepreneurial, we refer to those ventures that are high risk/high reward, capital intensive, scalable, and attractive targets for at risk capital investment. The course’s focus is specific to Life Sciences, including biotherapeutics, medical devices, diagnostics, health care information technology (HCIT) and digital health.