This module focuses on the development needs for participants' business skills and competencies. Experienced business coaches and mentors will interact regularly with participants, offer guidance on how to strategize and implement business cases. They will give feedback on challenges and activities and help participants strengthen their abilities to garner needed resources for their undertakings.

This module focuses on the development needs for participants' business skills and competencies. Experienced business coaches and mentors will interact regularly with participants, offer guidance on how to strategize and implement business cases. They will give feedback on challenges and activities and help participants strengthen their abilities to garner needed resources for their undertakings.

How do corporation manage entrepreneurship and innovation? This course introduces you to how corporates manage the front end of an innovation process when ideation is important and how the commercialization process can be organized when prioritization is more important and ultimately decisions need to be made about which projects to select.

In this course we go abroad to visit companies, universities and representatives for joint workshops, short lectures and social interaction.

Discovering Management offers an introduction to the field of business management and entrepreneurship for engineers and natural scientists. By taking this course, students will enhance their understanding of management principles and the tasks that entrepreneurs and managers deal with. The course consists of theory and practice sessions, presented by a set of area specialists at D-MTEC.

This course is offered complementary to the basis course 351-0778-00L, "Discovering Management". The course offers an additional exercise.

This is the third knowledge module within the CAS ELTV. During this module, we will discuss important themes concerning entrepreneurial team formation and management and practice elements in interactive workshops. The module will be extended by intermediary project review meetings.

This is the first knowledge module in the CAS ELTV. In this module we (1) introduce all participants to the CAS and ETH, (2) get to know in more detail the projects of the participants and how lean innovation plays a role, and (3) discuss important considerations of strategy formation in technology ventures.

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This course introduces the various elements important to start an innovative business. These are: insights into how technology as a context shapes opportunities to start a business, assessing opportunities, protecting one's idea and technology, market testing and feedback, how to form a team, raising investment and deal evaluation, use of novel financing sources, development of term sheets.

This module focuses on the development needs for both the participants' presentation and resource mobilization skills. The participants are asked to bring all learnings from the CAS and defend in engaging manner their business projects. This defense is typically delivered in presence of external investors or venture stakeholders who will challenge the project and potentially offer future support.

During the study trip, participants will be putting leadership theory into practice. Based on organisational behaviour theories, they will explore effective communication and leadership through hands-on exercises, theatre games, breath & body awareness and control. This will help them be more agile in their lives and become more confident and inspiring leaders to achieve business objectives.

This module focuses on the development needs for participants' leadership competencies. In this module, experienced leadership coaches will interact regularly with the participants, coach along a personal development plan, and feedback on specific challenges and participants' activities with the goal to strenghten the particiants' leader capability and people skills.

This module focuses on the development needs for participants' leadership competencies. In this module, experienced leadership coaches will interact regularly with the participants, coach along a personal development plan, and feedback on specific challenges and participants' activities with the goal to strenghten the particiants' capability to present themselves and their projects.

This module discusses how technology startups prepare for scaling up their organisation and operations, and helps build an understanding of how entrepreneurs can deal with the various growth challenges. The live sessions will focus on sustainable and responsible business practices and explore how to create positive environmental and social impact through the participants' business ideas.

This module highlights the different funding options for technology ventures such as business angels, accelerators, venture capitalists and crowd funding. It zooms into the professional management of the interrelations with institutional and corporate venture capital investors. Other subjects are early stage valuation, dilution, founder equity and important aspects of shareholder agreements.