Interdisciplinary Entrepreneurship

Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science

Version 15.0 of 02/23/2023

11B1375

Interdisciplinary Entrepreneurship

• Media & Interaction Design (B.A.)
• Elektrotechnik (B.Sc.)
• Elektrotechnik im Praxisverbund (B.Sc.)
• Informatik - Medieninformatik (B.Sc.)
• Informatik - Technische Informatik (B.Sc.)
• Mechatronik (B.Sc.)
• Lehramt an berufsbildenden Schulen - Teilstudiengang Informationstechnik (M.Ed.)

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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

Knowledge Broadening
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.
Knowledge Deepening
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.
Instrumental Skills and Competences
The students are able to outline and develop a business model using either the Business Model Canvas and/or the Blue Ocean Strategy methodology.
Communicative Skills and Competences
The 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.
Systemic Skills and Competences
The 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.

Practical project work, presentations, discussions, seminar

Basic knowledge about development methods of the individual discipline

Nehls, Johannes

• Nehls, Johannes
• Westerkamp, Clemens; Hofmann, Reinhard; Lehrbeauftragte

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Alexander Osterwalder, Business Model Generation, Campus Verlag, 2011Eric Ries: Lean Startup: Schnell, risikolos und erfolgreich Unternehmen gründen, Redline Verlag, 2012Patrick Stähler: Das Richtige gründen. Werkzeugkasten für Unternehmer, Murmann Verlag, 2017W. Chan Kim: Der Blaue Ozean als Strategie, Carl Hanser Verlag, 2005

Project Report, written

Field Work / Experimental Work

Practical knowledge of legal, business and planning requirements for entrepreneurial activity and the collaborative design of business plans.

Constant and active participation in the project and the seminar.

1 Term

Only Summer Term

German and English