This second step ensures that a technically feasible solution produces value in the market and is, therefore, business viable. A mediocre technical solution with a good business component has more chances to survive in the market rather than the opposite.
Bachelor
1TEMB9 – Certificate of technology entrepreneurship-BSc – 5 ECTs – Q1 or Q3 – Introductory
This certificate program is a modular program that offers students wide choices while also providing sufficient depth in the various areas of Technology Entrepreneurship. The main goal is to make students more competitive in the labor market by giving them the knowledge and the skills they need in how to transform innovative technologies into successful businesses.
DAB150 - Introduction to business design – 5 ECTs – Q2 – Introductory
We are going to show you how business and design can be intertwined. In this course we will introduce the basics of realizing that dream. We will do this by covering four important aspects of business design: User and Market; Design, Technology and Intellectual Property (IP); Design and Branding; Finance and organization. Case studies will be used to explain and discuss how the innovators developed ideas, tested them with customers, and used their insights to pivot or refine their concepts.
1ZM170 - Innovation & entrepreneurship study – 7.5 ECTs – Q1
Introduction to concepts for sustainable business modelling, such as customer discovery and validation, minimum viable product, design thinking, business modelling, sales strategy, operations, financial forecasting, and sustainability impact. Introduction to business modelling tools such as business model canvas, customer journey, empathy map, business model metrics, value network. In the following step a business plan will be developed in terms of time and activities to implement it.
Master
1ZMETU10 - EuroTeQ collider: entrepreneurship & innovation – 5 ECTs – Q3
The collider is the signature challenge-based learning activity of the EuroTeQ project. Within a theme you will work in interdisciplinary – international teams consisting of students from multiple institutes and in collaboration with lifelong learners.
6EMAC7 - ICMS industrial challenge – 5 ECTs – Q4
New science is inspired by grand societal and industrial challenges. The ICMS Challenge will connect creative minds in science and industry, bringing a new scientific perspective to industrial problems. On completion of the course, the student has developed an innovative solution for a technical challenge proposed by industry, which is scientifically sound commercially viable.
PhD/PDEng
6PDPPD830 - Design challenge – 2 ECTs
The goal of this module is to oriented towards providing new solutions to tackle societal issues in the field of Health, Energy, Mobility, AgriFood and Safety, which can be communicated to stakeholders as new applications.
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