Bachelor or Master Thesis or Project Study
📌 Key facts
Contents
💡 Background
Which medtech and life science startups will shape the Pharma-, Bio-, Life Science industry? Will it for example be start-ups, pharmaceutical companies, medical equipment manufacturer or tech companies? You should analyse how the outlook has been affected by the corona pandemic and what if any lasting changes will occur in the medical industry. For this you should search through VC portfolios worldwide, research the current trends, stakeholders, business opportunities, and threats. Analyze them to identify possible gaps in the market which are expected to be filled and estimate the development of existing and/or new companies. You will be in the unique position to bring thorough analysis to the uncertainty society and economy face.
🦾Who we are
The Chair for Strategy and Organization is focussed on doing research with impact. This means we do not want to repeat old ideas and base our research solely on the research people did 10 years ago. Instead, we currently research topics that will shape the future. Topics such as Agile Organizations and Digital Disruption, Blockchain Technology, Creativity and Innovation, Digital Transformation and Business Model Innovation, Diversity, Education: Education Technology and Performance Management, HRTech, Leadership and Teams. We want to always be early in noticing trends, technologies, strategies and organizations that shape the future.
🎯 Goals
- Research forecasts for the medical industry and the pharma and life science industries
- Search Venture Capital portfolios to identify and collect startups in the medtech and life scienes
- Identify relevant companies and collect key information on founders and firm
- Test your hypotheses empirically
🎓 Profile
- Reliable and self-driven
- Interest in Pharma / MedTech / Medicine / Venture Capital/ Biotech / Startups /Unicorns
- Passion to navigate through the ongoing pandemic, dissect business models and their economic dependencies, and to do research with impact
📚 Further Reading
Coronovirus Impact on Healthcare Sector: https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/markets/stocks/news/coronavirus-impact-on-healthcare-sector/articleshow/75136714.cms?from=mdr
The Implications for Biopharma: https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/pharmaceuticals-and-medical-products/our-insights/winning-against-covid-19-the-implications-for-biopharma
Healthcare Forecast: https://stefanini.com/en/trends/news/healthcare-trends-a-changing-industry
📄 Requirements to any Work
We do not want your research to gather dust in some corner of bookshelf but make it accessible to the world. Thus, we warmly encourage you to create some or all of the following:
- Infograph - visually represent some of your work (find examples here)
- Slide Deck - summarize your research and possibly present it
- Extract most important sequences from podcasts, videos, and other media
- 3-4 Tweets about the most important findings and summarizing the topic
- optional: Medium Article - let people outside university know about your research and start your personal brand
📬 How to apply
If you are interested, please contact Prof. Dr. Isabell Welpe (e-mail below) by submitting your CV and grade report. Please also briefly outline your tentative research idea (research question, data and methods, possible outcomes with a tentative outline all in word as *.docx)
We're greatly looking forward to hearing more about you!