Healthcare Entrepreneurship

By Prof. Arnab Chanda | IIT Delhi

Learners enrolled: 4730 | Exam registration: 2135

ABOUT THE COURSE:

This course aims to train students on conception-development-launching of healthcare engineering products which are critical for India. The students will study healthcare challenges, and understand customer requirements, market need and competition, which will help develop product ideas suitable for the Indian market. The various steps of the healthcare product development process, including specifications, tools for design and analysis, creation of minimum viable product (MVP), prototyping, manufacturing, and functionalization using electronics and robotics will be covered in depth. Healthcare product testing through usability tests, simulated test marketing, beta testing, and clinical testing will be discussed along with presentation of the ethical considerations, regulations, and standards. Product branding, pricing, positioning, sales and distribution, and customer acquisition will be studied with live examples. Key commercialization strategies including development of a robust business plan, fund raising, intellectual property filing, creating barriers to entry, and launching healthcare startups will be presented. The course objectives are in line with the Make in India and Start-up India initiatives by GOI.

INTENDED AUDIENCE: Students in UG programs in All Engineering, including Biomedical Engineering, Biotechnology, Biosciences, Biology, Medical and Allied Disciplines

INDUSTRY SUPPORT: Relevant to all Healthcare Startups, and a wide range of companies working in the healthcare space.

Summary

Course Status :	Ongoing
Course Type :	Elective
Language for course content :	English
Duration :	12 weeks
Category :	Biological Sciences & Bioengineering Biotechnology Bioengineering
Credit Points :	3
Level :	Undergraduate
Start Date :	19 Jan 2026
End Date :	10 Apr 2026
Enrollment Ends :	02 Feb 2026
Exam Registration Ends :	20 Feb 2026
Exam Date :	19 Apr 2026 IST
NCrF Level	4.5 — 8.0

Note: This exam date is subject to change based on seat availability. You can check final exam date on your hall ticket.

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Course layout

Week 1: Introduction, Healthcare problems and challenges in India, Healthcare Start-up ecosystem in India

Week 2: Idea Generation & Need Analysis – Source, evaluate ideas, Customer Discovery. Design Thinking for B2C, B2B Products and Services

Week 3: Healthcare product Specifications & Features, Product Development Process-7 Stages

Week 4: Tools for Design of Products and Services – Softwares

Week 5: Visual Design, User experience (UX) and User Interface (UI)

Week 6: Quality Engineering, Design for Manufacturing, Design for Maintenance

Week 7: Business Model Canvas-MVP, Product Prototyping

Week 8: Usability Testing, Beta Testing, Test Marketing

Week 9: Clinical Testing, Regulations and Standards

Week 10: Branding, Pricing and Budgeting, Distribution Channels and Lead Generation, Customer Acquisition and Retention

Week 11: Funding, Intellectual Property

Week 12: Product Proposals, Launching Startups

Books and references

1. Chanda, Arnab, and Shubham Gupta. Healthcare Entrepreneurship and Management: A Comprehensive Guide for Biomedical Engineers and Entrepreneurs. CRC Press, 2024.

2. Jeroen Kemperman, Jeroen Geelhoed, Jennifer op ‘t Hoog, Brilliant business models in healthcare, Springer, 2018.

3. Jen-Shih Lee, Biomedical Engineering Entrepreneurship. World Scientific, 2012.

Instructor bio

Prof. Arnab Chanda

IIT Delhi

Dr. Arnab Chanda is an Associate Professor in the Centre for Biomedical Engineering, IIT Delhi, and a joint faculty at AIIMS, Delhi. He is also the founder of a startup company BIOFIT Technologies LLC, USA. He has also worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh, USA and as a research scientist in LP Amina, China. Dr. Chanda is an expert in product design, medical device development, wearable biomedical technologies, and entrepreneurship. To date, he holds 10 US and Indian Patents, and has authored 6 Books and 100+ Journal Articles. Dr. Chanda has appeared in the list of top 2% scientists worldwide as per Scopus Elsevier and Stanford University database in both years 2023 and 2024. Dr. Chanda has been teaching healthcare and entrepreneurship related courses in IIT Delhi and US Universities for 5+ years and also coordinating several certificate courses in India including “Exec. Prog. in Healthcare Entrepreneurship and Mgmt

Course certificate

The course is free to enroll and learn from. But if you want a certificate, you have to register and write the proctored exam conducted by us in person at any of the designated exam centres.

The exam is optional for a fee of Rs 1000/- (Rupees one thousand only).

Date and Time of Exams: April 19, 2026 Morning session 9am to 12 noon; Afternoon Session 2pm to 5pm.

Registration url: Announcements will be made when the registration form is open for registrations.

The online registration form has to be filled and the certification exam fee needs to be paid. More details will be made available when the exam registration form is published. If there are any changes, it will be mentioned then.

Please check the form for more details on the cities where the exams will be held, the conditions you agree to when you fill the form etc.

CRITERIA TO GET A CERTIFICATE

Average assignment score = 25% of average of best 8 assignments out of the total 12 assignments given in the course.
Exam score = 75% of the proctored certification exam score out of 100

Final score = Average assignment score + Exam score

Please note that assignments encompass all types (including quizzes, programming tasks, and essay submissions) available in the specific week.

YOU WILL BE ELIGIBLE FOR A CERTIFICATE ONLY IF AVERAGE ASSIGNMENT SCORE >=10/25 AND EXAM SCORE >= 30/75. If one of the 2 criteria is not met, you will not get the certificate even if the Final score >= 40/100.

Certificate will have your name, photograph and the score in the final exam with the breakup.It will have the logos of NPTEL and IIT Madras .It will be e-verifiable at nptel.ac.in/noc.

Only the e-certificate will be made available. Hard copies will not be dispatched.

Once again, thanks for your interest in our online courses and certification. Happy learning.

- NPTEL team

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