Technology Entrepreneurship (BSc)

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. All TU/e bachelor students and external students can enroll in the program.

Learning Goals

After successfully completing the Certificate program Technology Entrepreneurship, 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.

Workload

The workload of the certificate program consists of 20 ECTS, of which 15 ECTS (see component 1) and an additional course of 5 ECTS (see component 2),  a minimum of 5 ECTS must be followed on top of the regular BSc program.

Courses Certificate program Technology Entrepreneurship

Component 1 (15 ECTS):

Course code Course name
1ZEUB0 Introduction to technology entrepreneurship (last examination year: 2024-2025)
1ZSUC0 Organizing entrepreneurship (last examination year: 2024-2025)
1ZAUB0 Entrepreneurship in action (last examination year: 2024-2025)

Transitional arrangements of component 1, click here 

Component 2 (5 ECTS):

Compenent 1 will be complemented with one additional course. Recommended additional courses:

Course code Course name
0ZK00* Intellectual property rights for new ventures
0BTE00 Advancing light for human functioning (last examination year: 2024-2025)
7XSUC0 Green Business models (last year course has been taught 2023-2024)

* Students who have successfully completed the USE sequence “Patents Design Rights and Standards” may be granted dispensation from the course 0ZK00.


More information about the courses can be found on the Osiris Course catalogue (e.g. content and quartiles)

Pass/Fail

The certificate program is successfully completed when the student passes each element of the program with a grade of 6 or higher, or by meeting the specified requirements.

When finishing your bachelor, the certificate can be requested at the education administration with proof of the certificate enrollment, proof of having requested your bachelor diploma, and a study progress document. Email IEIS.csa@tue.nl with name and ID number and the mentioned documents. 

The successfully completed certificate will be signed by the Dean of the Department of Industrial Engineering & Innovation Sciences.

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