Curriculum for Technology Entrepreneurship
Programme provision
To earn the title MSc in Technology Entreneurship, the student must fulfil the following requirements:
- Have passed 10 points in Polytechnical Foundation
- Have passed 50 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. You will get cases to work on but can also bring in your own business idea as long as it is "early stage". Accordingly, the courses focus on feasibility studies in different team constellations. By the end of the semester, after a due diligence phase, you will have found their venture project and team.
2nd semester
During the second semester, you will further develop your venture project. This includes finding their role within the team and specialising accordingly. You will work in your team on prototypes and the venture project will undergo a proof of concept phase.
You can choose a specialisation in order to apply specialised knowledge from different areas to the venture project (cf. extra information about specilisations).
During the third semester, you 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, you have the opportunity to sharpen your team’s competences and collaborate with potential partners and stakeholders.
You can also chose to keep working on your start-up and take relevant courses to progress.
All DTU courses can be taken as elective courses.
During the fourth semester, you develop your master’s thesis and might launch your venture. Thesis
The courses below are listed to guide your choices throughout your semesters.
You are free to chose other courses or take them in a different order but please note that programme specific mandatory courses have to be taken within the first two semesters.
1st semester
Programme specific courses (mandatory courses)
| 38203 | Due Diligence of New Ventures | 5 | point | January |
| 38204 | Feasibility Studies | 10 | point | Autumn E5 (Wed 8-17) |
Polytechnical Foundation (mandatory course)
| 38113 | Applied AI for Entrepreneurs | 5 | point | Autumn E2B (Thurs 8-12) |
In addition to the 20 mandatory ECTS in the first semester, you should take another 10 ECTS (either Programme Specific or Electives).
Any course at DTU can be taken as an Elective course. All courses listed here can count as Program Specific Course.
The following courses are recommended courses, divided into the different specilisations.
Please note, that you do not have to follow a specilisation.
As all courses are offered in Autumn, you could also take them in your 3rd semester.
Programme specific courses (recommended for Specialisation: Technology)
| 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) |
| 38102 | Technology Entrepreneurship | 5 | point | Autumn E1B (Thurs 13-17) |
| 38201 | Entrepreneurial Life Skills | 5 | point | Autumn E2A (Mon 13-17) |
| 42577 | Introduction to Business Analytics | 5 | point | Autumn E1A (Mon 8-12) |
Programme specific courses (recommended for Specialisation: Design)
| 02809 | UX Design Prototyping | 5 | point | Autumn E1A (Mon 8-12) |
| 38110 | Staging co-creation and creativity | 5 | point | Autumn E1B (Thurs 13-17) |
| 38201 | Entrepreneurial Life Skills | 5 | point | Autumn E2A (Mon 13-17) |
| 42505 | Facilitating Innovation in Multidisciplinary Teams | 5 | point | August |
Programme specific courses (recommended for Specialisation: Management)
| 38102 | Technology Entrepreneurship | 5 | point | Autumn E1B (Thurs 13-17) |
| 38108 | Technology and Innovation Management | 5 | point | Autumn E3B (Fri 13-17) |
| 38201 | Entrepreneurial Life Skills | 5 | point | Autumn E2A (Mon 13-17) |
| 42505 | Facilitating Innovation in Multidisciplinary Teams | 5 | point | August |
Programme Specific courses (recommended for Specialisation: Sustainability)
| 12772 | Life Cycle Assessment of Products and Systems | 10 | point | Autumn E1 (Mon 8-12, Thurs 13-17) |
| 38201 | Entrepreneurial Life Skills | 5 | point | Autumn E2A (Mon 13-17) |
2nd Semester
Programme specific courses (mandatory courses)
| 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) |
Polytechnical Foundation (mandatory course)
(The course is offered each semester at several time slots - if this suggested time slot does not suit you well, please contact your Head of Studies for an alternative)
| 12100 | Quantitative Sustainability (Polytechnical Foundation) | 5 | point | F7 (Tues 18-22) |
In addition to the 20 mandatory ECTS in the second semester, you should take another 10 ECTS (either Programme Specific or Electives).
The following courses are recommended courses, divided into the different specilisations.
Programme specific courses (recommended for Specialisation: Technology)
| 34346 | Networking technologies and application development for Internet of Things (IoT) | 5 | point | Spring F2B (Thurs 8-12) |
| 42576 | From Analytics to Action | 5 | point | Spring F1A (Mon 8-12) |
Programme specific courses (recommended for Specialisation: Design)
| 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) |
Programme specific courses (recommended for Specialisation: Management)
| 38104 | Entrepreneurial Finance | 5 | point | Spring F5A (Wed 8-12) |
| 38112 | Entrepreneurial Marketing | 5 | point | June |
Programme Specific courses (recommended for Specialisation: Sustainability)
| 12774 | Assessing health, environmental and life cycle impacts | 5 | point | June |
| 23552 | Development of innovative future food: Ecotrophelia and Blue Dot course | 5 | point | F7 (Tues 18-22) |
3rd semester
For the remaining ECTS, your are free to choose courses yourselves.
For your Electives you can choose any course at DTU.
Below is a list of courses that count as Program Specific Courses (in addition to the ones already listed).
Please note that not all of them are offered in the Fall semester.
Programme specific courses (recommended for start-up activities)
| 38109 | X-Tech+ | 10 | point | Autumn E4 (Tues 13-17, Fri 8-12) and Spring F4 (Tues 13-17, Fri 8-12) |
| 38301 | Module 1: Start-up Exploration | 5 | point | June |
| 38302 | Module 2: Start-up Incubation | 5 | point | F7 (Tues 18-22) |
Other DTU courses that qualifiy as programme specific courses:
| 02805 | Social graphs and interactions | 10 | point | Autumn E5 (Wed 8-17) |
| 12240 | Environmental Management, innovation and Ethics | 5 | point | January |
| 28350 | Process Design: Principles and Methods | 10 | point | Spring F3A (Tues 8-12) and Spring F3B (Fri 13-17) |
| 42014 | Environmental and Resource Economics | 5 | point | F7 (Tues 18-22) |
| 42576 | From Analytics to Action | 5 | point | Spring F1A (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) |
4th semester
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