The course explores advanced financial decisions encountered by corporate managers and demonstrates how financial theory can be applied to address practical, real-world challenges.

- Dimensions of risks with emphasis on entrepreneurial, financial and social risks.- What young entrepreneurs need to know from start-up creation to investment in innovation.- Perspectives on the future of innovation and how to better invent and create.- How to innovate and scale up and work with China.- Dynamical risk management and learning from the failure of others.

-General introduction to the different dimensions of risks withemphasis on entrepreneurial, financial and social risks.-Development of the concepts and tools to understand these risks,control and master them.-Decision making and risks; human cooperation and risks

Bridge between corporate finance and financial markets - General introduction to the different dimensions of risks with emphasis on financial markets. Development of the concepts and tools to understand these risks and master them. Working knowledge of the main concepts and tools in finance (Portfolio theory, asset pricing, options, real options, bonds, interest rates, inflation,exchange rates)

The geophysical field lab is a hands-on introduction into several methods of geophysical prospecting. During the field lab eight techniques are explored in half-day field experiments: Active Seismic, seismic noise measurements, gravimetrie, geomagnetics, geoelectrics, GPR, EM and geothermal measurements.