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BioCity Nottingham has staged a BioEntrepreneur Boot Camp in Bangalore, India.

Annual boot camps, where bioscience researchers and academics explore the world of enterprise and entrepreneurialism with a view to starting their own ventures, have been a feature at BioCity Nottingham and the same approach has now been taken to Bangalore.

BioCity Nottingham ran the event with the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Platforms (C-CAMP) in Bangalore.

Other partners were the University of Nottingham, the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore and the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur.

Kevin Shakesheff, who heads the University of Nottingham Science Bridge with India, said: "I'm delighted that the university's long-standing bridge with India has created an opportunity for BioCity to promote the East Midlands and the UK. The UK can prosper economically and scientifically from close links with India."

Nick Gostick, who led the boot camp for BioCity, added: "The fundamentals of a BioEntrepreneur Boot Camp in Bangalore are very much the same as in Nottingham, as the skills and core knowledge required for establishing a business are universal.

"The 27 delegates were taken through the fundamentals of intellectual property, the regulatory environment that applies in India and, crucially, what it is that makes a good entrepreneur."

BioCity Nottingham operates one of the largest bioscience incubators in Europe, which is home to about 70 early stage businesses.

The Indian Boot Camp is the first to be run in Asia. A similar Boot Camp is set for the new BioCity Scotland site in April.