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Tutor course resources | Business Skills for Chemists

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Use these resources with the accompanying guidelines to help undergraduate chemists at your institution develop valuable business and entrepreneurial skills.

Boost your students’ employment prospects and support them to develop their business skills using these downloadable resources with notes for tutors. Designed to be used flexibly within a variety of course structures, the materials cover three key topics:

  • ‘Business for chemists’ introduces students to a range of chemistry-related industries and covers the fundamentals of business. Case studies give students the opportunity to practise their skills, and include a visit to a company using chemistry in their core operations.
  • ‘From bench to bank’ focuses on innovation and commercialisation, featuring short presentations, group work and the opportunity for students to develop and pitch an idea for a product solving a real-life problem.
  • ‘Intellectual property’ familiarises students with the concept of intellectual property and it may be protected by patents, with case studies addressing some of the factors that must be considered when attempting to patent a new discovery.

Each topic includes an overview for tutors, with presentations, lecture notes, handouts and guidance documents available to download.

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