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jjj''Business 100: Business Perspectives'' Business Perspectives is an all encompassing entry level business course that exposes students to all aspects of business and how they work together. The goal of this course is to provide students with knowledge of: how to work in teams, how to create a business plan, and how to use the Internet and library databases to research information for a business plan. Individual career exploration is also facilitated through an individual career development portfolio project. ''Biology/ ISBT 474: Life Sciences Innovation''<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Translational science is a relatively new discipline that works to move basic research and technology out of the laboratory into commercial ventures that allow all people to benefit from the discoveries. This discipline is dependent upon the integration of science and business i.e. scientists and business people must work closely together to create successful commercial ventures. </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Unfortunately the integration of science/technology and business has been slow to occur within institutions providing undergraduate and graduate training for the next generation of scientists and entrepreneurs.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Helvetica;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">To address this gap, Life Science Innovation was developed. The course was created in partnership with the Wistar Institute to provide students with hands-on science/technology commercialization projects leveraging existing intellectual property (IP) from Wistar. Teams of three students will select Wistar IP/technology that Wistar believes has commercial potential.Teams will include students from different majors. The students will familiarize themselves with the underlying science/technology by directly interacting with the inventor scientist, identify the problem(s) the science/technology addresses and define key commercialization issues such as IP, market opportunity, competition, regulatory pathways, and potential customers. At the end of the course the students will develop a report and presentation that includes the scientific merit, value proposition, and overall commercial feasibility of the science/technology. The final report and presentation will also be directed to potential investors, explaining how much funding would be required for commercialization and how that funding would be used. The goals of this course are to: 1) P</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">rovide students with a hands-on, real-world life science entrepreneurship opportunity 2) </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Expose students to cutting-edge, translational science research</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Helvetica;"> 3) </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Develop an integrative understanding of the innovation lifecycle. </span>
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== Innovative Curricular Courses ==
= '''FACULTY INNOVATION & ENTREPRENEURSHIP ''' =
