Correspondence: Arlen D. Meyers, University of Colorado Denver, Academic Office 1, MS B205, 12631 E. 17th Ave, Aurora, Colorado 80045, USA. Tel: +1 303 724 1952; Fax: +1 303 724 1961; E-mail: Arlen.meyers@uchsc.edu

¹is Professor of Otolaryngology, Dentistry and Engineering at the University of Colorado Denver. In addition, he holds a faculty appointment at the Business School's Bard Center for Entrepreneurship teaching in the area of technology transfer and life sciences. Dr Meyers formerly served as the director of the University of Colorado MD/MBA programme and is the academic director of the Bard Center Bioscience Entrepreneurship Program.

²holds a PhD in biology from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut with an emphasis on neuroscience. Dr. Hurley has recently completed a post doctoral fellowship at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. He now lives in Denver, Colorado where he is actively pursuing an entrepreneurial endeavour in the life sciences.

Received 25 September 2007; Revised 25 September 2007; Published online 27 November 2007.

Abstract

In this first paper of a new regular column, Arlen Meyers and Patrick Hurley review the different bioentrepreneurship education programmes available in the United States and suggest some of their critical success factors.