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Training courses

The International PhD Program in Life Sciences proposes a cross-disciplinary training course that spans the three years of the doctoral thesis. The course is mainly taught in English under the form of seminars, conferences and visits of companies and aims to facilitate the opening on the socioeconomic world and the insertion in the private and the public sectors.

Projected program 2012*

1st session (3 days, january 2012) : Technology transfer and Intellectual Property
  • Team building
  • Process of technology transfer
  • Law of patents
  • Copyright
  • Issues of knowledge management
  • Data sources
2nd session (3 days, march 2013) : Project management and R & D in Life Sciences
  • Definition and characteristics of a project
  • Typology of project organizations
  • Interface with the hierarchical and institutional structures
  • Methods and tools of project management
  • Influence factors on project management
3rd session (3 days, october 2013) : Research valorization and innovation management
  • Innovation strategy
  • Public and private research: issues of innovation
  • Technology Marketing
  • Management and financing of technological innovation
  • Mechanisms and tools for technology transfer
  • Sphere of innovation: start-up, business and technology incubators, business angels, capital investment, competitiveness cluster
  • Life Sciences Environment: institutional organization, high-tech industries, consulting firms

* May be submitted to modifications