Each summer semester, the second module from the competence field will be offered starting in 2022. In the lecture "Entrepreneurial Finance", the challenges with regard to the financing of new businesses and start-ups will be presented and discussed. In addition, students work on and understand the start-up process from a technological perspective ("Technology-driven Entrepreneurship").
The lecture offers students the opportunity to take an in-depth look at the financial challenges faced by new businesses.
The main topics covered are:
- Finance and accounting in the context of start-ups,
- Funding sources: from early stage to market-ready projects,
- Investor profiles and negotiation,
- Current issues in entrepreneurial finance (e.g. crowdfunding) among others.
In the exercise the students leanr through expert inputs and lectures, the principles of business model generation and iterative validation.
The aim is for students to work out and understand the start-up process from a technological perspective.They scout and understand promising technologies, adapt the technologies to market-relevant products in a team, develop business models and prepare a "pitch deck" to convince stakeholders.