Boosting Entrepreneurial Skills & Training: BEST in genomics !

1. Genome Canada / Génome Québec Entrepreneurship Education in Genomics (EEG) Program • Boosting Entrepreneurial Skills & Training: BEST in genomics ! • Ottawa, 27 septembre 2011 Denis J. Garand, Ph.D., FSA-MNG, Université Laval BEST in Genomics !, Sept. 27, 2011

2. BEST in genomics !The best team of all ! Plus : an impressive SEAB (advisory board) of 10 members + 30 collaborators from all fields of genomics and regions in Québec and Atlantic BEST in Genomics !, Sept. 27, 2011

3. BEST in genomics ! Partners and funding • Genome Canada, Génome Québec, Université Laval. • CQVB, Montréal InVivo. • Private funding : • BD • Managium • CQDM • Needed co-funding : 25% … ± 300 K$ secured before June 2012 • Total budget (2011-2014) : 1.2 M $ BEST in Genomics !, Sept. 27, 2011

4. Universaldefinition of entrepreneurship BEST in Genomics !, Sept. 27, 2011

5. Who and where arepotential entrepreneurs ? BEST in Genomics !, Sept. 27, 2011

6. BEST in genomics ! The missing link … BEST is a combination of four generic activities : – awareness – education – training – business model development However, awareness appears as one of the missing links in entrepreneurship education and venture creation / development. BEST in Genomics !, Sept. 27, 2011

7. BEST in genomics ! Objectives • to foster, analyze and maximize the knowledge translation of scientific innovations into commercially relevant outputs • specifically, how to create and capture value from biotech and genomics research • to bring together all stakeholders (academia, public and private) in supporting these scientific entrepreneurs and their projects • how to translate these discoveries into marketable applications, products, technologies, systems and processes. BEST in Genomics !, Sept. 27, 2011

8. BEST in genomics ! Means • Identifying all those active, latent and potential intra- and entrepreneurs in genomics • providing them with the necessary entrepreneurial skills required to succeed • helping researchers and their projects by understanding the processes and players involved in commercialization • optimizing the availability of expertises from all stakeholders from Québec and Atlantic (universities, research centers, UTTS/IULO, industry-led clusters, private firms) • building an embedded and symbiotic entrepreneurship education profile for genomics. BEST in Genomics !, Sept. 27, 2011

9. BEST in genomics ! Culture enabler • Even if graduate students are not yet Genome Canada funded researchers, they must be included in this pilot project as they are the future candidates for such funding • Fostering entrepreneurship is a long term process involving the development of an entrepreneurial culture • Encoding entrepreneurship attitudes and skills within these younger cohorts of scientists will eventually impact the older groups • Seniors will then face more entrepreneurial new-comers, inducing among everyone more effervescence and emulation. BEST in Genomics !, Sept. 27, 2011

10. BEST in genomics ! Competences & Skills • Help scientists to realize their entrepreneurial potential, as many of them have never been aware of it, or confirm their true value as active entrepreneurs • Provide the tools to develop their savoir-agir (action) • Through five generic entrepreneurial competences : • creativity and innovation • flexibility and adaptability • communication • networking • problem-solving BEST in Genomics !, Sept. 27, 2011

11. BEST in genomics ! In four (4) levels Four-Level personalized approach bringing together individuals and their entrepreneurial objectives: • Level 1 : Enlightening entrepreneurial awareness • Level 2 : Scientific innovation and opportunity recognition • Level 3 : Enhancing the value of innovations - Connecting science to industry • Level 4 : Bouncing from project to commercialization BEST in Genomics !, Sept. 27, 2011

12. BEST in genomics ! Expected outcomes • Develop a wider, stronger, and long-lasting basis of entrepreneurial culture for all fields of genomics. • Be more proactive in increasing well-understood success factors associated with commercializing research – fundamental concepts of effective entrepreneurship - instead of waiting for those rare cases of successful genomics entrepreneurs. • Expand and optimize relationships between academia and private firms in biotech and genomics. • Improve and maintain short-, mid- and long-term economic outcomes in Canada. BEST in Genomics !, Sept. 27, 2011

13. BEST in genomics ! To conclude … • Fostering and maintaining an entrepreneurial culture, especially among scientists and academics, is not an easy task, as it’s now missing so much. • BEST in genomics! has all the drive and expertise needed to attain such objectives. • Please support this 3-year pilot-project and you will be fully rewarded on the mid- and long-term. Let’s spread the entrepreneurial virus among biotech and genomics ! No cure is needed. Infection starts RIGHT NOW ! BEST in Genomics !, Sept. 27, 2011

14. BEST in genomics ! Contacts … For further information, please feel free to contact : Denis J. GARAND : (418) 261-1827 Université Laval : denis.j.garand@fsa.ulaval.ca Richard CLOUTIER : (418) 657-3853 #209 CQVB : richard.cloutier@cqvb.qc.ca Francis BEAULIEU : (514) 987-9386 Montréal InVivo : FBeaulieu@montreal-invivo.com BEST in Genomics !, Sept. 27, 2011