SBIK10194U Advanced Biotechnology and Intellectual Property Rights
MSc Programme in Biology-Biotechnology
MSc programme in Bioentrepreneurship - compulsory
The course is theoretical and during the first week different
biotechnological challenges are presented from companies, research
groups at the university and students.
Project groups are formed and projects are initiated with a
workshop on idea generation within the biotechnological area of the
challenge. Groups will be encouraged to contact relevant industrial
and academic partners to test their ideas. Hereafter the focus is
on making a vision for the project. Next the focus is on background
litterature and patents relevant to the project. Hereafter the
scientific hypothesis and the aim of the project is written based
on the relevant written material. Next the focus is on creating a
timeline for the project and describing the project strategy in
details. In the following period the project plan and the critical
deliverables will be described along with the expected deadlines.
Assessment of various risks will also be evaluated. Hereafter the
focus will be on the scientific and commercial potential of the
project and the groups have to contact relevant industrial and
academic partners to test their project plan. The patent landscape
is closely evaluated and patent family trees are drawn. The period
hereafter is devoted to funding and the project groups will end up
describing the possibilities of getting their project into real
life. In course week seven the groups will present the final
outcome for a panel of experts. Week eight is deadline for the
project reports.
During the initial six course weeks there will be lectures and
workshops with guidelines to the group work and in some weeks there
will be knowledge sharing between groups either by presentations or
other formal activities.
During the first six weeks intellectual property right issues will
be taught in parallel with the project activities.
The course forms a final synthesizing element of the MSc
education and it is the final preparation for the MSc projects
After completion of the course the student is expected to have the
following knowledge, skills and competences:
Knowledge:
- Communicate in depth knowledge on selected topics within the area
of biotechnology
- Identify current technical problems within the area of
biotechnology
- Describe the relationship between patenting and scientific
discovery
- Describe the patenting process and how it relates to the
international patent authorities and organizations.
- Understand patents as strategic tools in business developement
- Understand how intellectual property rights
relates to and handles genetic sequences and other biological
material
Skills:
- Read and interpret state of the art scientific literature within
the area of biotechnology
- Generate new ideas to tackle technical problems within the
biotechnological area
- Evaluate which strategies and laboratory procedures to use to
solve technical problems within the biotechnological area
- Use and understand advanced methods in molecular biology in the
context of research and development
- Determine the freedom to operate for a given new biotechnological
product emphasizing intellectual property rights.
- Understand how to interact with external partners both industrial
and academic.
- Understand innovation and entrepreneurship in general.
Competences:
- Identify scientific problems within the area of biotechnology and
design strategies for investigating the problems
- Make a well documented project plan including a hypothesis, a
time line with deliverables and expected deadlines, risk assessment
and future perspectives.
- Exploit knowledge of advanced technologies and products based
on animal, plant and microbial biotechnologies. As examples
technologies could include biomarkers, enzymes, vaccines,
bioremediation, development and tailoring of production organisms,
diagnostics, rational drug design and the use of animal and
cell-based models. Products could comprise food/feed ingredients,
diagnostic tools, biomedicine, pharmaceuticals and transgenic crop
plants and animals.
An IPR compendium
Selected scientific papers, reviews and patent material relevant
for the specific project.
- Category
- Hours
- Colloquia
- 20
- Exam
- 1
- Guidance
- 20
- Lectures
- 40
- Practical exercises
- 20
- Preparation
- 40
- Project work
- 271
- Total
- 412
- Credit
- 15 ECTS
- Type of assessment
- Oral examination, 25 minutesOral examination without preparation. The exam will start with a 5 min pitch presentation from the student. Exam topics will cover the biological background of the project, the project phases, general and specific intellectual property right issues and funding aspects.
Weight: Oral examination 100 %. - Exam registration requirements
An approved written project report, made in groups, is a prerequisite for access to the oral examination.
- Aid
- All aids allowed
- Marking scale
- 7-point grading scale
- Censorship form
- No external censorship
More than one internal examiner
- Re-exam
If the exam registration requirement is not fulfilled, the written report must be handed in and approved prior to the reexamination.
Criteria for exam assesment
In order to achieve the maximum grade of 12, the
student shall give an excellent performance during the exam
displaying a high level of command of all aspects of both the
advanced biotechnology and the intellectual property rights. The
student shall give a clear presentation of the group project and
show a exhaustive comprehension of all the relevant topics
touched during the exam with no or only few minor weaknesses.
Specific knowledge, skills and competencies, see learning
outcome.
Course information
- Language
- English
- Course code
- SBIK10194U
- Credit
- 15 ECTS
- Level
- Full Degree Master
- Duration
- 1 block
- Placement
- Block 4
- Schedule
- A And B
- Course capacity
- No limit
- Continuing and further education
- Study board
- Study Board of Biomolecular Sciences and Technology
Contracting departments
- Department of Veterinary Clinical and Animal Sciences
- Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences
- Department of Veterinary Disease Biology
Course responsibles
- Claus Bøttcher Jørgensen (7-6d766b7f7d6c744a7d7f786e38757f386e75)
Lecturers
Claus Bøttcher Jørgensen, Peter Ulvskov