FARB2100 Biopharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Science Course description

The entrepreneurship project: The student will carry out an IT project in collaboration with a relevant start-up company, individually or in groups of maximum five students. Completion of the course requires a placement in an IT start-up company corresponding to two days a week over a 12-week period. If the project is carried out during the summer, the work must correspond to four days a week over a six-week period.

OsloMet will help individual or groups of students to get in touch with a start-up company that has a suitable project. The company must provide an approved IT entrepreneurship project and a competent supervisor. Furthermore, OsloMet will provide an internal supervisor at OsloMet. The students will develop a prototype for a product that is relevant for the start-up company, or develop and implement new functionality in the technology of the start-up company.

In addition to the projects on offer, students can find their own projects within a relevant company, public organization or nonprofit. In this case, it is the student's responsibility to find a supervisor for the project within the external organization. All student-initiated projects must be approved by the course coordinator before the start of the project.

The course will only run if there is a sufficient number of students registered.

Individual written exam, 3 hours.

The exam result can be appealed.

After completing the course, the student is expected to have achieved the following learning outcomes defined in terms of knowledge, skills and competence:

Knowledge

The student:

• has become familiar with key issues relating to innovation and entrepreneurship
• understands business processes and organisational structures in a start-up company
• has acquired a basic overview of financing and support possibilities for start-up companies
• has acquired insight into innovation processes and technological development from idea to prototype
• understand the role and importance of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals in the development of new technological solutions.

Skills

The student is capable of:

• developing a product or service from the idea, design and development stages through to implementation and evaluation of a prototype
• independently completing an IT project within the framework of a start-up company and mastering basic issues that characterise entrepreneurship processes
• communicating, in written and oral form, the technical and business-related issues of relevance to the theme of the project, including the project plan, project activities and results, to an audience that may or may not be technologically proficient
• developing new solutions that explicitly address one or several of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals

General competence

The student is capable of:

• using technical principles to solve one or more problems of relevance to the business sector
• defining a problem and proposing possible innovative solutions
• evaluating the importance of organisational dynamics and work relations in start-up companies

The course builds on computer science courses from the first year of the programme.

Grade scale A-F.

One internal examiner. External examiners are used regularly.

The course is based on knowledge and experience of programming, for example DAPE1400 Programming and DATS1600 Program Development.

Emnet er ekvivalent (overlapper 10 studiepoeng) med: ITPE2200, ADSE2200, LO138A, LO138D og LO138I)

Ved praktisering av 3-gangers regelen for oppmelding til eksamen teller forsøk brukt i ekvivalente emner.

Grade scale A-F.

One internal examiner. External examiners are used regularly.

• 10 credits overlap with the course FARMA2120 Biopharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Science