Biotechnology/Biotech Business, Policy, Law, and Science

Your Complete Guide to Starting and Understanding Biotechnology Companies: Business, Law, Regulations, Policy & Science

What you'll learn
Understand the commercial factors driving and constraining biotechnology development
Learn how biotechnology is regulated, and how regulations can both limit and drive innovation
Learn about patents and other forms of intellectual property protection in biotechnology, and why they are crucial for innovation
Learn about domestic and international biotechnology policy decisions and how to balance innovation incentives with economic realities
Learn about the science behind biotechnology, and it applications

Requirements
This course presumes no former training in business, science, or law.
Description
Learn the business of biotechnology, how to start and manage biotechnology companies, and how to better service the needs of biotechnology companies.

Going beyond simple 'science for non-scientists' or 'mini MBA' offerings, this course describes the convergence of scientific, political, regulatory, and commercial factors that drive the biotechnology industry and define its scope.

Topics covered include

The development of biotechnology

An accessible introduction to the science of biotechnology

Drug development

Laws, Regulations, and Policy

Intellectual Property

Patents

The Business of Biotechnology

Finance

Marketing

Management

This course is based on the leading business-of-biotechnology text, "Building Biotechnology," which has been adopted by more than 50 schools, and is taught by Yali Friedman, Ph.D., publisher of the Journal of Commercial Biotechnology and a former instructor of biotechnology management at the National Institutes of Health.

I hope you enjoy this course as much as I did putting it together.

For those interested in drug development specifically, you can also check out my other Udemy Course: Generic Drug Entry & Branded Drug Lifecycle Management

About the Author

Yali Friedman, Ph.D. has more than 20 years experience providing business intelligence to life science companies. He was recently named one of the 100 most influential people in biotechnology by Scientific American. He is also author of the MBA-level textbook Building Biotechnology and publisher of the Journal of Commercial Biotechnology.

Who this course is for
New hires to biotechnology and related companies
New biotechnology founders
Scientists and other entrepreneurs seeking to better understand the business of biotechnology
Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Investors
Biotechnology GMP facility managers
Biotechnology regulatory affairs professionals
Drug and medical device development managers