High-tech Entrepreneurship course
15th February 2022 – 5th April 2022
20 hours (9/10 lectures ) – 2 credits
JoTTO - the Joint Technology Transfer Office of the Italian Schools of Excellence (i.e. SISSA, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Scuola Normale Superiore, IMT Lucca, IUSS Pavia, GSSI L’Aquila) - has launched a 20-hours course designed to introduce participants, mainly PhD students from different disciplines (STEM, but also Social Sciences and Humanities) and also young researchers and post-docs, to the basic knowledge and competences about high-tech entrepreneurship. More precisely, the course will provide participants with the basic understanding of the role, analytics and process of business planning that lead to the creation of new innovative business ventures, especially regarding those which are generated within an academic environment, on the basis of public research. They will learn and gain direct experience about patents, university-industry collaborations, contract research, starting a new company, marketing high-tech inventions, etc. The objective is to bring participants to have their business model and business plan ready at the end of the course.
The course will be in presence, in Pisa. However, students from universities far from Pisa can participate through the webex platform. The course is designed mainly – but not only – for participants from universities which are part of the JoTTO initiative. Students from other universities can also apply. The course has been designed both for those who are planning to set up an innovative and/or high-tech start-up and for those who might benefit from the course’s contents in an existing company, in their professional activities or in a research context.
If you would like any further information, please don't hesitate to contact the SISSA Valorisation & Innovation office: Silvia Faion (silvia.faion@sissa.it) and Tanja Lunardelli (tanja.lunardelli@sissa.it).
In order to attend to the course, please register by sending an e-mail to a.piccaluga@santannapisa.it
The course is coordinated by Andrea Piccaluga and Alberto Di Minin, who will be present in every lecture, and its contents and organization are shared within the Jotto initiative. External “guest teachers” will also be invited.
Andrea Piccaluga is professor of innovation management at the Institute of Management, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (SSSA), has been delegate for technology transfer at SSSA for many years and has been president of Netval (Network per la Valorizzazione della Ricerca) from 2014 to 2019.
Alberto Di Minin is professor of management at the Institute of Management, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna. He is also Research Fellow with the Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy (BRIE), University of California – Berkeley. He is the Director of the Confucius Institute of Pisa, and the Director of the Galilei Institute in Chongqing University.
Students interested in obtaining the two credits (CFU) need to follow 80% of the lectures and prepare a business plan for a new innovative start-up at the end of the course, either individually or with other students.
Please see the provisional programme attached for more details about the lectures.
