Table B2.

Vision and imagination panel prioritized learning topics for biomedical I&E (ranked by entrepreneur mean importance)

Topic presented to panelists	Entrepreneur		Intrapreneur
	Mean importance (5-point scale)	N rating high (4) or essential (5)	Mean importance (5-point scale)	N rating high (4) or essential (5)
Consensus
Communication skills, to engage with diverse types of people and bring different perspectives to the table	4.78	9/9	4.33	7/9
Identifying the assumptions that your business plan relies upon	4.78	9/9	4.22	8/9
Problem formulation strategies, such as how to identify unmet needs in the world	4.67	9/9	4.11	6/9
How to identify your minimum viable product (MVP): the core solution/product behind your ideas to be subjected to potential customer feedback?	4.67	9/9	3.89	6/9
How to perform market research?	4.56	9/9	3.89	7/9
Knowledge of the state of your industry/technology	4.56	8/9	4.22	7/9
How to screen ideas: identify bases for comparison and define criteria against which to evaluate your ideas?	4.44	8/9	4.33	7/9
Understanding what inspires you and motivates you to act	4.44	7/9	3.78	5/9
How to think divergently, and come up with many alternatives given a situation or problem?	4.33	8/9	4.11	8/9
Interviewing techniques to obtain information from consumers, peers, and competition	4.33	8/9	3.89	5/9
Knowledge of what investors want to see before they invest in a venture	4.33	8/9	3.44	4/9
Knowledge of market trends and the underlying models of supply and demand	4.22	8/9	3.44	3/9
Knowledge of entrepreneurial ventures and companies inside your field	4.22	7/9	3.33	3/9
How to find new uses for existing technologies?	4	7/9	3.89	7/9
No consensus
How to assess the intellectual property landscape?	3.78	6/9	3.11	3/9
How to benchmark technologies and identify better ways of doing what’s already on the market?	3.67	5/9	3.56	5/9
Knowledge of entrepreneurial ventures and companies outside of your field	3	2/9	2.44	1/9