A group of 12 UMB students from various schools and disciplines were about to pitch their business plans to a panel of experts, with one group “winning” a hypothetical investment. At the beginning of the semester, as Quraishi pointed out, they began the class empty-handed. Now they presented ideas, proposals for winning approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and detailed timelines and cost estimates for their hypothetical new technologies.
Image: Students in Rana Quraishi's CIPP 980 entrepreneurship in biotechnology course listen to one another's final presentations. - http://www.umaryland.edu
