Delft Centre for Entrepreneurship (DCE)
The Delft Centre for Entrepreneurship (DCE) offers entrepreneurship education for engineers across the faculties of the TU Delft. It is an exciting place where students and academics jointly work on technology and market challenges in multi-disciplinary teams with the support by mentors.
What We Offer
The centre offers education, workshops, and events such as the quarterly Delft Startup Nights and Delft Startup Show to offer a stage for young entrepreneurs and discuss fresh ideas for new ventures.
Our Mission
The Delft Centre for Entrepreneurship conducts research in entrepreneurship and innovation and offers action- based learning in entrepreneurship for engineers across the faculties of the TU Delft, to create innovative and exciting new venture ideas.
“The courses are different from other courses in the faculties at TU Delft. You’ll learn about starting your own business, but also finance, economics and design. I enjoyed the pressure cooker project most”
Gilles Hagen, DCE alumni 2018 and founder of QuickVision Creative
Our Education
The goal of the Delft Centre for Entrepreneurship is to have a positive impact on student’s personal and professional development by nursing entrepreneurial thinking. Our education takes place in a vibrant multi-disciplinary environment and seeks to transform students and academics by empowering their entrepreneurial mindset.
Hosting visits from practitioners, the classes are highly applied and interactive, whether you would like to build your own company, become more business savvy, or simply learn how innovation happens, we can help. The courses can be taken individually or as a Think-Act-Start set.
THINK
Using existing business cases, in THINK classes you learn about conceptual models and methodologies essential to understanding the entrepreneurial and innovation processes.
ACT
In ACT classes, you become an entrepreneur. You start with a business idea, test its validity, and build a viable and defensible business model – a roadmap to a sustainable innovation-driven company.
START
If you already have made progress with your business model, START classes enable you to move it into the execution phase by focusing on the operational aspects of building a successful business.