Lecturer: Health Innovation & New Venture Creation

Description:

This course is designed for students who need to develop or create potential business or project opportunities that are mainly based on health concepts or social innovation. The course provides the required actionable tools to move from opportunity identification to idea generation and successfully launch health businesses. This course further provides the best practices and tools for implementing innovation, such as customer-focused innovation, storytelling, and influence. Health innovations and new venture creation course is further developed to assist students in identifying the difference between a business idea and a potential innovative business opportunity. Also, health innovations and new venture creation contribute to new venture value propositions and communicate ideas and concepts effectively. In addition, this course helps an assessment process for a new health venture to determine its desirability, feasibility, viability and sustainability. In this regard, topics in this course affect how an entrepreneur develops practical strategies for exploiting business opportunities and resourcing new venture creation and development.

The University of Toronto instructor will be co-facilitating the course with their KNUST counterpart. Partnering University: Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana.

Estimated course enrollment: ~ 30 students

Estimated TA support: not applicable

Class schedule: Virtual + In-person 3-hour seminar-style sessions; occurring from 8:00 AM – 11:00 AM EST Every Monday, January 13th, 2025 – March 24th, 2025.

Sessional dates of appointment: January 1, 2025 – March 30, 2025

Salary (0.5 FCE):

Sessional Lecturer I - $9,457.90
Sessional Lecturer I – Long Term - $9,930.79
Sessional Lecturer II - $10,121.77
Sessional Lecturer II – Long Term - $10,326.62
Sessional Lecturer III - $10,362.76
Sessional Lecturer III – Long Term - $10,570.02

Please note that should rates stipulated in the collective agreement vary from rates stated in this posting, the rates stated in the collective agreement shall prevail.

Minimum qualifications: Master’s Degree or higher in Health Sciences or a related field.

Preferred qualifications: Previous experience in teaching, project management, new healthcare venture creation, translational research, field research and student evaluation.

Description of duties: The instructor(s) will be responsible for achieving the course objectives: Equip students with strategies to leverage business opportunities and develop new health ventures. Clarify the distinction between a business idea and an innovative health business opportunity. Provide skills to validate potential health ventures based on students' ideas. Assist in assessing the desirability, feasibility, viability, and sustainability of new health ventures. Enhance understanding of health regulations and intellectual property in the health business sector.

The instructor will be responsible for designing class activities and take-home activities, creating the mid-term and contributing to the final examination.

Application instructions: Please submit application using the following form: Winter 2025 Sessional Lecturer: HENT557 - Health Innovation and New Venture Creation (0.5 FCE)

CAUTION:This ad is “posted only” to the U of T CUPE 3902 Unit 3 job board. Please see the information directly above for the application instructions; applications submitted via the "Apply Now" button on this page will NOT be considered for this position.

This job is posted in accordance with the CUPE 3902 Unit 3 Collective Agreement.

It is understood that some announcements of vacancies are tentative, pending final course determinations and enrollment. Should rates stipulated in the collective agreement vary from rates stated in this posting, the rates stated in the collective agreement shall prevail. Preference in hiring is given to qualified individuals advanced to the rank of Sessional Lecturer II or Sessional Lecturer III in accordance with Article 14:12 of the CUPE 3902 Unit 3 collective agreement. Undergraduate or graduate students and postdoctoral fellows of the University of Toronto are covered by the CUPE 3902 Unit 1 collective agreement rather than the Unit 3 collective agreement, and should not apply for positions posted under the Unit 3 collective agreement.