Curriculum for Technology Entrepreneurship
Programme provision
To earn the title MSc in Technology Entreneurship, the student must fulfil the following requirements:
- Have passed 5 points in Polytechnical Foundation
- Have passed 55 points in the group of Programme Specific Courses
- Have completed and passed an MSc Thesis equaling at least 30 points (max. 35 points) within the programme’s disciplines
- Have passed a sufficient number of Elective Courses to bring the total number of points of the entire study up to 120 points
Curriculum
The programme is divided into 4 semesters.
1st semester
During the first semester, it will be essential to discover and identify the most promising and feasible project and team to work on and with over the course of the education and training. Accordingly, the courses focus on feasibility studies in different team constellations. By the end of the semester, after a due diligence phase, students will have found their venture project and team.
Programme specific courses (mandatory courses)
| 38201 | Entrepreneurial Life Skills | 5 | point | Autumn E2A (Mon 13-17) |
| 38203 | Due Diligence of New Ventures | 5 | point | January |
| 38204 | Feasibility Studies | 10 | point | Autumn E5 (Wed 8-17) |
Polytechnic foundation courses (recommended)
| 38102 | Technology Entrepreneurship | 5 | point | Autumn E1B (Thurs 13-17) |
| 38105 | Digital Trends for Entrepreneurs | 5 | point | Autumn E3A (Tues 8-12) |
| 38107 | Business Design for Sustainability | 5 | point | Autumn E2B (Thurs 8-12) |
| 42505 | Facilitating Innovation in Multidisciplinary Teams | 5 | point | August |
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| 42503 | Facilitating Innovation in Multidisciplinary Teams | 5 | point | June |
2nd semester
During the second semester, students will further develop their venture project. This includes finding their role within the team and specialising accordingly. The students teams will work on prototypes and their venture project will undergo a proof of concept phase. All team members choose specific study tracks in order to apply specialised knowledge from different areas to the venture project. The tracks are based on the various roles within their venture team. Students can choose one of the following tracks that matches their entrepreneurial motivation, background and competences.
- Technology & Design
- Strategy & User Insight
Programme specific courses (Mandatory)
| 38103 | X-Tech Entrepreneurship | 10 | point | Spring F3 (Tues 8-12, Fri 13-17), Autumn E3 (Tues 8-12, Fri 13-17) |
| 38202 | Entrepreneurial Leadership Journey | 5 | point | Spring F4A (Tues 13-17) |
For the remaining ECTS, the students can choose courses themselves. Below is a list of courses that we can recommend.
(please note, these courses can also be taken in the first or third semester).
Programme specific courses (recommended)
| 02450 | Introduction to Machine Learning and Data Mining | 5 | point | Spring F4A (Tues 13-17), Autumn E4A (Tues 13-17) |
| 02456 | Deep learning | 5 | point | Autumn E2A (Mon 13-17) |
| 02805 | Social graphs and interactions | 10 | point | Autumn E5 (Wed 8-17) |
| 02809 | UX Design Prototyping | 5 | point | Autumn E1A (Mon 8-12) |
| 12240 | Environmental Management, innovation and Ethics | 5 | point | January |
| 12772 | Life Cycle Assessment of Products and Systems | 10 | point | Autumn E1 (Mon 8-12, Thurs 13-17) |
| 23552 | Development of innovative future food: Ecotrophelia and Blue Dot course | 5 | point | F7 (Tues 18-22) |
| 28350 | Process Design: Principles and Methods | 10 | point | Spring F3A (Tues 8-12) and Spring F3B (Fri 13-17) |
| 34346 | Networking technologies and application development for Internet of Things (IoT) | 5 | point | Spring F2B (Thurs 8-12) |
| 38104 | Entrepreneurial Finance | 5 | point | Spring F5A (Wed 8-12) |
| 38110 | Staging co-creation and creativity | 5 | point | Autumn E1B (Thurs 13-17) |
| 38301 | Module 1: Start-up Exploration | 5 | point | January, June |
| 38302 | Module 2: Start-up Incubation | 5 | point | F7 (Tues 18-22) |
| 38303 | Module 3: Start-up Acceleration | 10 | point | Autumn E1 (Mon 8-12, Thurs 13-17) |
| 41635 | Robust design of products and mechanisms | 5 | point | Spring F1B (Thurs 13-17) |
| 41639 | Holistic Design of Engineering Systems | 10 | point | Spring F5 (Wed 8-17) |
| 42009 | Introductory Economics | 5 | point | Autumn E5A (Wed 8-12) |
| 42014 | Environmental and Resource Economics | 5 | point | F7 (Tues 18-22) |
| 42576 | From Analytics to Action | 5 | point | Spring F1A (Mon 8-12) |
| 42577 | Introduction to Business Analytics | 5 | point | Autumn E1A (Mon 8-12) |
| 42893 | Psychology for engineers | 5 | point | Autumn E5B (Wed 13-17) |
| 46205 | Feasibility studies of energy projects | 5 | point | Autumn E3A (Tues 8-12) |
During the third semester, students have to opportunity to study abroad with the aim of exploring and experimenting with potential new markets or further developing the underlying technology of your venture project. At our leading entrepreneurial partner universities, they have the opportunity to sharpen their team’s competences and collaborate with potential partners and stakeholders. For those students not going abroad, all DTU courses can be taken as elective courses.
During the fourth semester, students develop their master’s thesis and launch your venture. Thesis
We believe it is becoming increasingly critical that entrepreneurial education supports and creates future entrepreneurs who are "fit for purpose". In this programme, students will build the competencies and skills required to design business models based on Sustainable Development Goals and make ethical decisions in the often-difficult moral situations they will find themselves in as entrepreneurs.
Along with the course content that will help set up their venture, students will obtain a variety of competences throughout the four semesters. These competences include:
- Teamwork, diversity and culture: Teambuilding, conflict management, team psychology and culture, community building, diversity
- Communication: Intercultural communication, pitching, presenting, visual communication, written communication, storytelling, non-verbal communication
- Process awareness and reflective practice: reflection, learning from failure, creating and implementing your own learning and projects, peer learning/grading/assessment, ethical decision-making
- Identity and personal life: Stress management, meditation, identity carving, work/life balance, entrepreneurial culture
Head of Studies
Carina Lomberg Associate Professor, Group Leader of Psychology of Entrepreneurship Phone: +45 45254552 calom@dtu.dk