Starting Up – Self-Employment and Entrepreneurship

11B1318

Bachelor

German, English

5.0

only summer term

1 semester

Starting a business requires a diverse set of skill from different disciplines. Successful start-ups are often the result of efficient and inspirational cooperation between actors from different fields and expertises. In order to achieve this efficiency interdisciplinary teams require a common ground on terminology, methods and objectives of their entrepreneurial activity. This project-driven module seeks to provide students from across the disciplines with the requires prerequisites and fundamentals of starting an own business as well as to incubate interdisciplinary teams.

? Theoretical basics of economic, legal and planning prerequisites of entrepreneurial activity ? Reading, understanding and creating business plans for entrepreneurial start-ups ? Basics of cross-disciplinary communication for entrepreneurial start-ups

The total workload for the module is 150 hours (see also "ECTS credit points and grading").

• Project Report, medial

• Field work / Experimental work

The ungraded examination performance in the module is understood as the basis of the graded examination performance. The result is described in the project report and presented in a presentation. 

Graded examination performance

• Project report (medial): approx. 15 pages, illustrative, photographic, filmic representations

Ungraded examination performance

• Experimental work: approx. 3-month design work from the context of the course.

Basic knowledge about development methods of the individual discipline

Students can identify, name and discuss problem areas and potentials of business ideas. Within interdisciplinary collaborations, they can identify and address competences and deficits of all shareholders and participants.

Students are able to use their acquired knowledge about risk and potential analysis in the iterative process of creating business models. Within interdisciplinary collaborations they're able to plan and employ their skills efficiently and goal-oriented.

Students can evaluate and anticipate potentials and risks of entrepreneurial activity and are able to apply methods for further developing a business model following a first positive assessment.

The students are able to outline and develop a business model using either the Business Model Canvas and/or the Blue Ocean Strategy methodology.

Students create innovative business models by using their didactic and methodological repertoire in a way that is target group oriented and appropriate to the use case.

Students are able to communicate their anticipated business models in writing (e.g. in the context of an application for funding) as well as rhetorically. Within interdisciplinary setups they're able to identify communicative problems that derives from working across the disciplines and are apply different strategies for resolving these.

The students are able to meet the social responsibility as well as the responsibility for themselves as entrepreneurs through constant evaluation of their individual actions.

• Nehls, Johannes

• Hoffmann, Reinhard
• Siebert, Tim