Entrepreneurship Education / From Industry to Entrepreneur
From Industry to Entrepreneur
Short Course in Leadership, Innovation and Venture Design
in Life Science
Turn Your Industry Expertise into a Venture
Are you a senior life sciences professional with deep expertise and the ambition to build, join or advise a venture? Every year, top corporate talents leave industry with valuable know-how, but few have had to translate it into a concrete venture idea or an investor-ready story.
From Industry to Entrepreneur closes this gap. Hosted by the Innovation Office at the University of Basel with University of Basel Continuing Education, the intensive three-day course combines personal mindset work, rigorous business case design and direct access to the Basel life science ecosystem.
Choose your track: as a Venture Builder you develop your own venture idea; as a Venture Enabler you prepare to join or advise a startup. Either way, you leave with a clear roadmap, a sound funding strategy and new strategic contacts.
Key facts at a glance
3 days
intensive, in person
CHF
3'500
early bird CHF 3'150
25-27 Feb
2027, Thursday to Saturday
max. 25
participants per cohort
Who is it for:
Senior life sciences professionals with at least ten years of experience, with or without their own venture idea.
Venture Builder: You already have a venture idea and want to share it into a business case.
Venture Enabler: You want to join or advise a startup and bring your expertise into a new role.
What’s in it for you:
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Shift to an entrepreneurial mindset with frameworks tailored to the life sciences
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Leave with a detailed roadmap for your venture or role, including a funding strategy
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Join an exclusive network of investors, experts and alumni, plus a case study library
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Gain access to invitation only investor and ecosystem events
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Practise pitching and get critical peer feedback in a high-trust cohort of senior professionals
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Receive a Certificate of Attendance from the University of Basel
Course Schedule
Onboarding
Before the course
Onboarding call with the lead trainer and self-paced preparatory work.
Who you are now
Thu 25.02.2027 | 09h00 - 20h30
Mindset, ecosystem and opportunity, followed by an exclusive dinner with founders, faculty and investors.
What you could build
Fri 26.02.2027 | 09h00 - 17h30
Designing ventures and developing your role or business model.
What happens next
Sat 27.02.2027 | 09h00 - 17h00
Working on funding ideas, finalising your roadmap and committing to your venture project.
From Industry to Entrepreneur
Senoir life sciences professionals
Admission criteria
At least ten years of professional experience in the life sciences sector and fluency in English.
Sent to eleonora.disapia@unibas.ch
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Curriculum vitae (max. 2 pages)
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Motivation letter (max. ½ page)
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Venture idea or envisaged role in a venture (max. ¼ page)
Application Deadline Tuesday 15th December 2026
Lecturers & Experts
Mauricio Campos Suarez
Lead Trainer · Executive & Team Coach
Alessandro Mazzetti
Head, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Deputy Managing Director
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