Certificate of technology entrepreneurship-BSc (BSc CTE)

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Objectives

Technology Entrepreneurship means making, designing, developing and commercializing new entrepreneurship based on innovative technologies. 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.

After successfully completing the CTE program, students will have the following competences:

• Insight into the factors relevant for operation of a new venture
• Knowledge and skills necessary to identify new business opportunities (in both independent and corporate settings)
• Knowledge and skills necessary to design a business model for a new business, iteratively refine it and present to external stakeholders

Depending on the choice of in-depth elective courses, students will be able to:

• Choose the optimal strategy to protect the company’s ideas, making trade-offs based on the advantages and disadvantages of the possible IP protection mechanisms
• Design an innovative business model taking the special aspects and regulations of the ‘green’ context into account
• Incorporate the influence of light on people’s lives in a venture design/business