IXA-ACE course “Entrepreneurship” wins Best PhD course award
June 20, 2019
One of the educational courses organized by ACE Incubator BV and IXA Office AMC is the Graduate School course “Entrepreneurship in Health & Life Sciences” for AMC and (since last year also) VUmc PhD candidates. In two days participants attend lectures on different aspects of starting their own company, get acquainted with business model canvas, intellectual property, and stories from AMC spin-off company directors about their journeys from idea to a product on the market, and learn to and actually pitch their own idea in front of a jury.
Photographer: Peter Lowie
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