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Ph.D. Course - Entrepreneurship in Technical ScienceTechnical University of DenmarkGeneral course objectives: The overall objective of this course is to achieve a basic business insight that will allow the student to efficiently participate in commercializing inventions and knowledge within technical sciences. General objectives: • How to develop a research project or idea to a business opportunity • Technology transfer of IPR from research to commerce • Formation of a new business activity: in existing industry (intrapreneurship) or via a spin-off company (entrepreneurship) Students will be asked to apply their research subject in the development of a business idea or they will have the opportunity to work with an idea jointly developed by DTU. The ideas will be presented and further developed at the Ideation Day or (e.g. video conference) before the summer school in Helsingør. The course will introduce the students to methodologies related to the discovery and development of a business opportunity. To obtain 5 ECTs, the participant has to: • Before the summer school: Read an introductory text book about entrepreneurship (provided by the organisers), prepare a <½ page business case proposal and participate in the ideation/video conference (est. 40 hours) • Participate in the 6 day summer school (est. 65 hours) • Hand in an individual report in a venture cup format after the summer school (7 step scale), (est. 25 hours) Learning objectives: A student who has met the objectives of the course will be able to:
Contents: Teams and cases will be developed at the idea generation workshop (video conference) based on both the students’ own ideas and ideas provided by DTU. Teaching will consist of morning lectures, usually given by experts working in a specific area, afternoon group works supported by business mentors and evening inspiring talks given by successful high tech entrepreneurship entrepreneurs. |
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