Capstone Course and Project

Entrepreneurial skills are highly valuable throughout your career. The Capstone Course for the MMB program will help you develop these skills through concepts of entrepreneurship, intrapreneurship, strategy, and innovation. This course serves as a culminating experience that calls on students to use the knowledge, skills, and abilities they developed throughout the program. 

As the primary activity of the course, student-teams complete a semester-long capstone project to develop and refine skills in the identification of new ventures and turning ideas into reality. Teams create a proposal for the formation of a company that fulfills an unmet need and then develops a comprehensive, customer-validated business model. A panel of experienced entrepreneurs provides feedback during the project and evaluation of the final plan.

Learning Objectives

In this course, students will:

• Evaluate industry and market trends to predict opportunities.
• Utilize multiple ideation strategies to identify problems and generate solutions relevant to the biotechnology/biopharmaceutical industry.
• Develop an evidence-based business model for the product or service that includes identification and evaluation of the value proposition, customer segment, customer relationship, channels, key partners, key resources, key activities, cost structure, and revenue stream.
• Effectively communicate the value of a product, service, or technology and the financial feasibility for the respective product or service through a variety of media.
• Collaborate with a team in a productive and professional manner.
• Document evidence that displays professional knowledge, skills, and abilities through a Dossier/eDossier.

Past Capstone Projects