SBIK10194U Advanced Biotechnology and Intellectual Property Rights
MSc Programme in Biotechnology - compulsory
This course is a simulation of a biotechnological innovation proces where the participants have to solve an advanced biotechnological challenge without infringing the intellectual property rights of others.
The course is theoretical and during the first week different
biotechnological challenges are presented from companies
and research groups at the university.
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
literature and patents relevant to the project. Hereafter
the 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 looking at 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 in the Biotechnology program and it is the final
preparation for the MSc thesis. On the Bioentrepreneurship program,
this course finalizes year one and it is the final preparation
before moving on to the second year at Copenhagen Business School.
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 development
- 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, development and innovation
- 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 challenge-driven innovation processes and business
models 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 aim, 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
- Lectures
- 40
- Class Instruction
- 20
- Preparation
- 40
- Practical exercises
- 20
- Project work
- 271
- Guidance
- 20
- Exam
- 1
- Total
- 412
Open for credit transfer students and other external students. Apply here:
Credit transfer students apply here
Other external students apply here
- Credit
- 15 ECTS
- Type of assessment
- Oral examination, 25 minutes
- Type of assessment details
- Oral 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 an 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
- 80
Study board
- Study Board for the Biological Area
Contracting departments
- Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences
- Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences
Contracting faculty
- Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences
Course Coordinators
- Claus Bøttcher Jørgensen (clausbj@sund.ku.dk)
Lecturers
Claus Bøttcher Jørgensen, Peter Ulvskov, Peter Horn Møller, Bodil Jørgensen, Hanne Frøkiær,