03.2024

Friday, 15th March saw the final day of Ventac Partners‘ week-long “build a biotech” course at Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway, with some entertaining and successful elevator pitches to some tired and initially skeptical investors.

This was the 21st edition of the course since it started in 2004 and as usual the student teams did excellent work in converting our 10 technology cases – in the form of “invention disclosures”, similar to those usually submitted to university technology transfer offices – into investable business cases. The business presentation session was remarkably impressive this year.

Thanks to all this year’s BI3018 students for their rapid learning, excellent teamwork and refreshing enthusiasm!

Many thanks also to Prof. Berit Johansen for hosting and running the course with us and to our fellow lecturers and supervisors from NTNU TTO: Knut J. Egelie and Eivind Andersen, and from Dehns: Haakon Thue Lie and Axel Moulin