User:Silvano Coletti
Contact Info
- Silvano Coletti
- Franklin University Switzerland
- Lugano, Switzerland
- Email me through OpenWetWare
I'm lecturer of "Global Entrepreneurship" and faculty member of Franklin University Switzerland. Educated at School of Engineering (Politecnico di Milano) and Harvard Business School. Former fellow at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), joining the Industrial Ecology & Life Cycle Systems Group (Prof. Olivier Jolliet) and Université Libre de Bruxelles where I joined Ilya Prigogine team. I learned about OpenWetWare from http://syntheticbiology.org/, and I've joined because of my interest in collaborating with innovators helping to realize the full potential of discoveries by safeguarding intellectual property, securing funding, and facilitating the successful transfer of inventions to the commercial sphere. In 2002 I founded http://cheloniagroup.ch/ with the intention to advise global corporations and scientists but also to have an investment vehicle for ventures I decided to join or startup. Main area of interest: Life Sciences and Biotechnologies.
Education
- 2002, ExecMBA, Harvard Business School
- 1995, MS, Politecnico di Milano
Research interests
- Life Sciences
- Industrial Ecology & Biotechnology
- Science of Materials
Teaching
- Master of Science in International Management, Global Entrepreneurship, MGT 560, Franklin University Switzerland
- course provides the students with a broad overview of entrepreneurship. Its primary focus will be on starting, financing and managing a company; however the skills learned will also be of use for people wanting to drive change as an employee within an existing company. The course includes theoretical studies and considerable practical information based on the instructors’ hands-on experiences as founding entrepreneurs and investors. Students will be required to apply the concepts by developing a business concept and plan that they will present to potential investors.