2020_02_21_FAR_emprendimiento

Entrepreneurship, in general, is a very broad concept. To focus the session, Ángel Pérez Agenjo, founder and partner of Transcendent, distributed insulin pens among the students of the 'Focused' course at School of Pharmacy and Nutrition of the University of Navarra. A internship to see how much and in what way can be innovated in the health sector.

What ideas can you come up with and how could you improve them?

In ten minutes, the students of Master's Degree in management of Pharma-Biotech Companies presented their ideas. They made proposals to control dosing, measure in real time, reduce the size, favor patient comfort, provide a cooling system, offer a version for children or support sustainability with the use of materials such as bamboo.

Entrepreneurship with a focus and a goal generates opportunities, dialogue and social impact. And that was the line along which the program ran.

Entrepreneurship, explained Ángel Pérez Agenjo, is a process of design, launching and managing a new business. In the health sector, the possibilities are vast: "Technology, the growth of inequalities, unhealthy habits and the aging of the population are just some of the factors that increase the opportunity for entrepreneurship in the health sector".

During the course, they worked on social entrepreneurship, success stories, accelerators, incubators and grants for entrepreneurship in Spain.

Ángel Pérez Agenjo emphasized two essential elements: reading and being curious. Read at least five hours a week and ask the whys and wherefores. But, in addition, "you cannot forget the Sustainable Development Goals development -he warned the students-. It will be the common language of the coming years.

The founder of Transcendent mentioned three keys to entrepreneurship in the health sector: to know that entrepreneurship "part-time" is not a success factor; to follow a plan of objectives to be achieved and to establish a timetable; and to seek support to carry out the project, avoiding the loneliness of the entrepreneur.

The training session on entrepreneurship was the last of the three 'Focused' courses on current topics of special interest in the sector that are being developed at the Master's Degree of management of Pharma-Biotech Companies.