Technology-Based Entrepreneurship
Minor code: MOT-MI-088
Minor code: MOT-MI-088
This minor prepares you for entrepreneurship in its broadest sense. Entrepreneurship is understood here as acting entrepreneurially, setting up a new business within existing organisations, and starting your own company.
The Technology-Based Entrepreneurship minor offers a basis for students who would like to complement their technical knowledge and skills with entrepreneurial knowledge and skills to create and seize new opportunities in the market. The minor is offered by the Delft Centre for Entrepreneurship (DCE) and lecturers from the faculties of Technology, Policy and Management and Industrial Design. Through a critical case study, the knowledge and skills are applied in a project that brings together an idea, a market and a technology into a viable startup.
Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering and Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management
ECs: 30
Start: September
Language: English
Maximum participants: 120
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For whom
This minor is open to all 3rd-year bachelor students from TU Delft, Erasmus University Rotterdam and Leiden University. Students from other Dutch universities may also join the minor. More information about registering as an (external) student for this minor can be found here.
What you will learn
After completing the minor, you will be able to analyse markets and estimate technological developments, make analyses of startup organisations and recognise (technical) opportunities in the market on this basis. This knowledge, combined with your knowledge from your technical discipline, makes you an attractive candidate to pull radical innovation projects at existing organisations or to start your own company.
Content of the minor
The minor aims to provide a solid introduction to the specific aspects of technology-based entrepreneurship. Each subject highlights one or more aspects of 'technopreneurship'. The subject package covers the main aspects of entrepreneurship. It draws from the TU-wide range of entrepreneurship-oriented courses: foundations of entrepreneurship, product design, organisational science, financial aspects of startups and business-to-business marketing.
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- Product-Service Design & Prototyping (4 ECTS)
- Business Marketing for Engineers (3 ECTS)
- Essentials of Technology-Based Entrepreneurship (4 ECTS)
- Case Study in Technopreneurship (10 ECTS)
- Introduction in Technology-Based Entrepreneurship (2 ECTS)
Check the study guide for all course descriptions
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- Finance for Entrepreneurs (4 ECTS)
- Managing Startups: teamwork, leadership and AI (3 ECTS)
Check the study guide for all course descriptions
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The minor in Technology-Based Entrepreneurship provides a basis for students who would like to complement their technical knowledge and skills with entrepreneurial knowledge and skills to create and take up new opportunities in the market. The minor is offered by the Delft Centre for Entrepreneurship (DCE) and lecturers from the faculties TPM and IO. Through an integral case study, the knowledge and skills are applied in a project that combines an idea, a market and a technology into a viable startup.
Register for this minor
This minor is open to TU Delft students, as well as students from Erasmus University Rotterdam and Leiden University. More information about registering as an (external) student for this minor can be found here.
