This bachelor course provides students an opportunity to come up with their own entrepreneurial solution to a challenging problem from a corporate partner. Students will learn to actively collaborate and communicate in groups while fostering their creativity skills with different creativity methods and techniques. Students are incentivized to iteratively improve their idea throughout the course as part of a creativity-centred group process while receiving feedback from the lecturers and praxis partners.
This course aims to ensure that students will acquire a deep understanding of creativity as an independent concept. Students will learn how to comprehend, evaluate, foster, apply, and master creativity in the context of new venture ideation. Students will also gain heightened sensitivity into their own creative skills and they will be provided with insights into leadership tasks and required skills in creative contexts through a variety of guest lectures from industry experts, startup founders and other business leaders, with a particular emphasis on startup and new venture leadership.
This course takes place in collaboration with UN staff. Students innovate on grand challenges identified by the UN and learn how to apply a scientific approach to problem-solving. The focus lies on utilizing research to improve business, industry, and policy-level responses. The course is highly interactive and presents a unique opportunity to learn invaluable, entrepreneurial skills for innovating on grand challenges.
In this venture project, we concentrate on adversity (e.g., SARS‑CoV‑2 pandemic, the war in Ukraine, natural disasters) as anexternal enabler to new ventures. This means that adverse events may provide unique opportunities to ventures such as opportunities to apply new technologies, opportunities to address changes in sociocultural and economic behavior, etc. Building on the external enablement framework of new venture creation in this course, students learn how new ventures help communities to fight adversity by exploiting emerging opportunities. In addition, by actively participating in solving the challenges the ventures encounter, students will get an immersive experience of how entrepreneurship can help to solve societal grand challenges.
In this course, students will gain an understanding what social entrepreneurship is and how to pursue it. Working in teams, students will be developing social business ideas from scratch and design a suitable business model for their ideas. They will also learn how to communicate their business ideas with social impact and how to acquire resources to set up social businesses.
In this course, students will gain an understanding what social entrepreneurship is and how to pursue it. Working in teams, students will be developing social business ideas from scratch and design a suitable business model for their ideas. They will also learn how to communicate their business ideas with social impact and how to acquire resources to set up social businesses. In addition, as this course takes place in Singapore, students will develop some first insights into the social entrepreneurship ecosystem in Southeast Asia, meet local social entrepreneurs, and deep dive into live cases.