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University of Pennsylvania Dan Bogen . Forum on Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Biomedical Engineering Education. Best Practices: It’s the Culture, Not the Courses. Science culture Entrepreneurship culture Clinical culture Design culture. University of Pennsylvania.
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University of PennsylvaniaDan Bogen Forum on Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Biomedical Engineering Education
Best Practices: It’s the Culture, Not the Courses • Science culture • Entrepreneurship culture • Clinical culture • Design culture University of Pennsylvania
Best Practice (1): To Have Culture, You Must Have Wide Opportunities • Inside the classroom: courses • Engineering Entrepreneurship I & II • Product Design • Medical Devices • Bioengineering Case Studies • Bioengineering Senior Design • Wharton: finance, management, marketing, accounting, entrepreneurship, business plan University of Pennsylvania
Best Practice (1): Wide opportunities, inside and outside the classroom • Outside the classroom • Wharton Business Plan Competition • Tech House • Entrepreneurship Clubs • Really doing it • Venture Initiation Program • Small Business Development Center University of Pennsylvania
Best Practice (2): Culture through Case Studies • Engineering Entrepreneurship • Case studies (Harvard Business School) • “Bootstrap” emphasis • Product Design • Ulrich & Eppinger, Product Design & Development • Medical Devices • Reverse engineering • Bioengineering Case Studies • Medical technology case studies University of Pennsylvania
Best Practice (3): Product-Oriented Design • It’s not a medical device, it’s a medical device product. • PennTOYS® Design Program • Engineering-design & product-development lab to develop medical and rehabilitation technology for children • Primarily operates as section of Bioengineering Senior Design Project • Core technologies & methods • Focused expertise & product line University of Pennsylvania
Best of All “Best Practices” • Creative faculty actually involved in invention, design, entrepreneurship • A culture of problem-seeking and problem-solving where innovation is the natural result, rather than the goal University of Pennsylvania