Understanding the Company and Maximizing the Value of Patents

Are you a third-year undergraduate or first-year graduate student in the Languedoc-Roussillon region? Would you like to work in small groups with students from other programs on a project-based approach, using an unused scientific patent? Would you like to be guided and challenged by professional startup coaches? Sign up for the PEPITE Patent Project to present a plan for an innovative startup based on the commercialization of a real patent provided by a local research team that will welcome you with open arms!

Why?

-Because you can start your own business no matter what field you're in

-To be selected by an incubator-type support organization

-To help you build a network in the fields of entrepreneurship and innovation

PEPITE Patent Project—what is it? A teaching unit consisting of key activities:

- a 3-day "tool training" seminar

-regular meetings with the coaches

-Deliverables to be submitted: summary report, market research, business plan

- a 10-minute final pitch to present your innovative company

to raise awareness among undergraduate and graduate students about the concepts of innovation, technology transfer, and entrepreneurship.

Have them work in a project-based format so they can independently acquire knowledge in:

-Legal structure of businesses - Intellectual property 
 - Accounting and financial statements
-Marketing

-market research - business plan

Continuous Assessment (to be completed individually, in pairs, or in groups of three):

-Conduct a critical review of a scientific article using the IMReD format.

-Conduct a statistical study and write a "mini" article based on it