Both universities have developed the MBE programme to provide specialist business and legal skills relevant to employment in the bio-economy.
Students undertake an internship placement with a company or organisation, conducting research on a project of real commercial interest .
The internship provides experience of working in a business environment as well as an opportunity to collect data as the basis for a dissertation.
Students may opt, circumstances permitting, to work within multinational companies, start-ups, small to medium-sized enterprises or service providers to the biotech sector, such as accounting, legal or IP practices.
Normally students spend 4 – 6 weeks with a company and are encouraged to put into practise the lessons learnt from the academic aspects of the programme as well as to demonstrate original research and analysis.