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.

Learning and experiencing strategic tasks on the basis an enterprise simulation. Interconnection of individual divisions; importance of strategic planning; difficulties in the realization of strategies; guidance tools and analysis instruments; strategic trade-offs.

Business and Technology Intelligence are activities that support decision-making of technological and general management concerns by taking advantage of a well timed preparation of relevant information of trends (opportunities and threats) of the organization’s environment.

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.

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PhD students work two days on basic theories. Every student works on one theory relevant to her/his research topic. Students learn how to integrate theories into their PhD thesis. The literature that forms the basis is the book from Mary Jo Hatch: "Organization Theory", 1997.

This course gives a theoretical and practical overview on the management of a company as a whole: Today’s global environment, principles of leadership, decision taking, principles of organizational structure, the value chain and process management, strategies and corporate governance. The case study Hilti will be presented by Pius Baschera, head of board of directors of Hilti.

Organization of companies, assessment of companies and technologies. Restructuring, mergers and acquisitions. Management of strategic partnerships, joint ventures and non-profit organizations. Total Quality Management and Risk Management. Management of “knowledge workers”. The main emphasis of the lecture is placed on methods, tools and proven theories.

Growth through innovation" is a dialogue research – practice on “How can innovation create growth”? What are the preconditions? Institutional, technological, economic and psychological aspects and different innovation strategies will be discussed. Speakers are six CEO/CTOs of leading Swiss-based multinational firms and six leading professors.

Practice and theory dialogue for the work sharing between Switzerland, Eastern Europe and Eastern Asia. Development of key markets, success factors in the global environment, supplier management in China, situation of supply industry, internal competition of low wage manufacturing plants within large companies, global Make or Buy, expansion in Southeast Asia, negotiating in extreme situations.

Research today. Organization of Global Research. Technological and scientific intelligence. Choosing a portfolio of research activities. Management of creativity of individuals and creativity in groups. Intellectual property in research. Managing the interface of R&D. The main emphasis of the lecture is placed on methods, tools and theories of management.

Different topcis in research methodology are discussed. E.g. What is science?; What is pseudo science?; science and research; experiments and inquiries; research question; What is a theory?; structure of a dissertation. In collaboration with the University of St. Gallen (Prof. Dr. Gassmann).

The lecture comprises the significance, goals, prerequisites, ways and forms of technology transfer. Topics are directions, phases and decisive factors of the technology transfer process, assurance of intellectual property, ways and means of transfer of knowledge and know-how (co-operation or spin-offs) and case studies by guest speakers on selected typical cases.

The lecture gives an introduction into the basics of innovation and technology management: Strategic questions, basic innovation principles, high-tech, dominant design, risks of new technologies, etc.Understand the innovation process and its design, control and integration in the corporate activities on the strategic and operational level.

How to make money with specific technologies; Understanding how technologies develop from ideas to markets: Diffusions of technologies, new markets versus mature markets, core capabilities, managing the fuzzy front end, approaches towards a theory of design.The lectures provide an introduction into the context of a business plan for a technology driven company.