When science meets entrepreneurship

Dara Satrio; Vanessa Rijkeboer; Angelica Reitsma; Edo Roos Lindgreen; Katja C Wolthers; Dasja Pajkrt

doi:10.12688/openreseurope.15318.1

When science meets entrepreneurship

Open Res Eur. 2023 Jan 13:3:9. doi: 10.12688/openreseurope.15318.1. eCollection 2023.

Authors

Dara Satrio¹, Vanessa Rijkeboer², Angelica Reitsma¹, Edo Roos Lindgreen², Katja C Wolthers¹, Dasja Pajkrt¹

Affiliations

¹ Academic Medical Center of the University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
² Department of Economics and Business Administration, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Abstract

Science industries, such as the health and medical industry, are experiencing increases in competition regarding commercializing, patenting, and funding of scientific outputs. As such, scientists are facing increased expectation to engage in academic entrepreneurship. OrganoVIR (Organoids for Virus Research) is a Horizon2020 Innovative Training Network (ITN) that aims to train Early Stage Researchers (ESRs) to lead innovation in the field of human organoids for virus research. To assist them in this process, OrganoVIR introduced a pre-Master of Business Administration program that introduced OrganoVIR's ESRs to the tools and knowledge necessary to navigate the competitive industry. In this article, we describe this innovative pre-Master of Business Administration program and highlight the importance as well as the need for having a pre-Master of Business Administration programs in a scientific training network.

Keywords: Early Stage Researchers; Innovative Training Network; Researchers.; Scientists; pre-MBA program.

Grants and funding

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 812673.