In this course, we unpack the strategies that underpin the platform business model, i.e. a business model that creates value by facilitating exchange, collaboration and interaction between several actors. We aim to understand why and how global platform companies have risen to dominate industries and discuss strategies for developing and managing platforms as well as their surrounding ecosystems.

This course introduces key competences, frameworks and methods for designing, implementing and executing strategy.

Technology ventures are significantly changing the global economic picture. Technological skills increasingly need to be complemented by entrepreneurial understanding.This course offers the fundamentals in theory and practice of entrepreneurship in new technology ventures. Main topics covered are success factors in the creation of new firms, including founding, financing and growing a venture.