Strategic Scientific are proud to be assisting the final year students at the Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences with their Enterprise Project option.

 

Each year final year undergraduates are given the choice between lab based research project and enterprise projects where they create professional level market research reports for University and Scottish based innovations and young companies.

 

SSC have been involved in this process for the past 3 years and are constantly impressed by the quality of the reports provided across Medical Devices, therapeutics, software and other life sciences related market sectors.

 

Strathclyde are to be praised for embracing such appropriate training for their students as they encourage them to develop skills appropriate for the work place across the whole spectrum of science activities including business, marketing and sales.

 

Sheila Ash will be presenting in Helsinki at the BioIT seminar on 18th Sept 2013

https://tapahtumat.tekes.fi/tapahtuma/bioitverkottumistilaisuus1809

Sheila will be talking about how to create sustainable business within the Global Bio-IT market and contributing to a discussion on the best ways to achieve Internationalisation for small businesses in niche markets.

Last night at the Strathclyde 100 group meeting the finalists of the Strathclyde Enterprise Academy 2013 pitched their business ideas...and iGROW was deemed the worthy winner.

This is an excellent program that Cait Murray has been fortunate to be involved in to provide the Markets and Marketing teaching session.
The teams are created at the beginning of the 3 days intensive course and they are required to come up with an idea and a credible business plan brief at the end . The finalists then work further on their concepts, get to pitch to s100 and win the opportunity to develop their ideas further with some expert help.

Well done the team!
 

SSC attended the Engage with Strathclyde event last Friday and gained an excellent overview into how a highly innovative university is promoting and utilising their expertise. Strathclyde not only to provide expert advice through consultancy and KTP opportunities but also to work with other organisations to create new businesses and promote growth in technology-led sectors through TIC and creation of spin-out companies with real potential for global impact.

SSC are very proud to be associated with the new R&D research program from TEKES which follows on from the survey of the opportunities of cross-pollination of Bioinformatics skills into new market areas.

The Bio-IT program  kicked off in Helsinki with an intensive seminar session combining English and Finnish presentations with an audience of approximately 100 people.
https://tapahtumat.tekes.fi/tapahtuma/bioitverkottumistilaisuus

The Keynote Presentation was an overview of the potential markets and the key-players given by Cait Murray. This included a brief introduction to each of the 30 international consultants that have been generous enough to get involved with the program.  Further presentations were given by Roal, Medisapiens, and Roche Diagnostics of Finland and Eagle Genomics of Cambridge UK all speaking about how to create growth and success in the world of Bioinformatics and related industries.

The meeting included a networking 1-2-1 area where attendees were actively speaking with each other and learning about interests and possibilities for getting involved with the program.

Further information on the Tekes plans for the Bio-IT program can be found
http://www.tekes.fi/programmes/BioIT