“PhD graduates tend to be very thorough, very smart, very focused and deliver some great outcomes but they usually don’t have the context to think around business and commercial acumen,” chief engineer Anthony Skeats said.
“If they get that additional business knowledge that makes them far more powerful.”
“We know from talking to employers that PhD graduates are brilliant in their research field, but they often lack business-relevant abilities, including presentation, negotiation and leadership skills,” said Carla Dias Wadewitz, a co-lead of the new program.
“It’s giving them skills that are not only useful inside a lab, so they understand human resources, finance and leadership.”
Some leading lights overseas, including Yale, the University of Pennsylvania, Cornell, Dartmouth and the National University of Singapore, have been offering joint programs for several years.
Read more from Anthony and details of the combined PhD-MBA in The Australian Financial Review.
Chief Scientist and CEO Americas Brian Gonzales will present Micro-X's Nano Electronic X-ray Technology: Current and Future Clinical Applications on Thursday October 1 at the World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering in Adelaide, South Australia.
Australian medtech innovator Micro-X has taken a major step forward in its mission to revolutionise emergency stroke care, securing a $4.4 million grant from the Australian Government’s Industry Growth Program for a world-first trial of a stroke-capable ambulance, integrating Micro-X’s ultra-lightweight Head CT scanner into frontline emergency services.
Micro-X will showcase the Miniature CT Baggage Scanner for the first time at Future Travel Experience in Long Beach, California from 9 to 11 September.
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