The bachelor's thesis is the culmination of the program. The students develop, enhance, and demonstrate their methodological abilities to independently tackle and solve a given research problem. The thesis furnishes the students with their first major research experience, and is a further development of the work done in the basis courses and the focused study.

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The challenges for engineers, economists and natural scientists in plant operation and administration rise to describe and predict the diffusion of new technologies and products. Hence a basic knowledge in economic theory and methods related to the diffusion of new technologies will be acquired and applied to innovative energy technologies.

The course offers basic knowledge of energy economics, energy markets, energy resources and statistics, concepts of energy efficiency and substitution potentials, technological adaptation to climate change, obstacles and market imperfections, and the methods to identify impacts of related energy and technology policies. The energy policy section covers general and specific policy instruments.

Innovation as an essential factor of competitivness and as a regional asset receives increasing atention in theoretical and empirical research an education. The objective of the course is to learn about the ability ogf existing forecast methods to project future technical deveopments . The methods are applied to energy technologies as an example.