Entrepreneurship in the Bachelor's program
Bachelor seminars:
Entrepreneurship Basics (WS/SS):
This seminar teaches what is important for entrepreneurs and leads through a structured process from the initial business idea to the pitch of the final business model. In teams, participants create, develop, validate and present their business model. In particular, they gain practical experience:
- Identifying and validating relevant customer problems,
- designing and testing solutions to these problems,
- finding target groups and
- their accessibility and
- their willingness to pay.
Methods such as the business model canvas, the value proposition canvas, rapid prototyping and target group interviews are introduced and applied. In addition, communication strategies are used to teach students how to work efficiently in a team.
The seminar "Entrepreneurship Basics" is credited in the seminar module (Vertiefungsmodul).
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SIL Launch Lab:
In this seminar SIL - LaunchLab a challenge, a real challenge of the Student Innovation Lab teams is worked on. This means that each SIL LaunchLab team receives a challenge from a SIL team, supports this team by working on the challenge and thus perhaps makes a spin-off of the SIL teams more likely, more successful or faster. The specific challenges are assigned at the kick-off. The challenges can be of a technical or entrepreneurial nature
The "SIL - LaunchLab" seminar is offered as part of the Business and Technology team project (9 ECTS).
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Further seminars (irregular)
Student2Startup:
In this seminar, students will work in teams on solutions to various strategic challenges defined by pre-seed startups. Mentors from industry support the teams. In addition to a kick-off and closing event, methods and background information are taught in regular seminar sessions and the student teams are supported in their tasks.
Participants learn in the seminar:
- Understand and apply basic entrepreneurship concepts, including business modeling, lean startup approaches and market analysis
- Understand the specific challenges of startup projects
- Interact with industry experts and potential users to develop answers/solutions to a specific challenge
- Present the results to startups and industry experts
The "Student2Startup" seminar is credited in the seminar module (in-depth module). It takes place in cooperation with the Wissensfabrik and the pre-accelerator program upCAT of the KIT Gründerschmiede.
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Current and past courses can be found here.
Registration for the seminars takes place via the WIWI portal.