Teaching
In this section you can find an overview of the teaching activities of the MCEI, the Chair of SME Research and Entrepreneurship, as well as courses offered by other chairs that complement our topics and can help you advance your startup.
Please note:
- █ Light green courses are more traditional. You can expect a lecture and a final exam.
- █ Dark green courses are accelerator style courses. You can expect projects, team work, and advance your startup.
- █ Grey courses are offered by other chairs but complement our entrepreneurship courses and can help you advance your startup. Please check for the specifics on the respective pages.
- █ Blue courses are offered by the Chair of SME Research and Entrepreneurship and focus more on reserach and topics about SMEs.
- * MAN 635 and MAN 636 do not qualify as prerequisits for your Master's Thesis.
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Making Things Happen Course Outline This course is about making things happen! You do not think inside the box and love working on challenging projects? Next to studying, you are eager to apply your knowledge in the real world and learn from startup teams on the project? You like new ideas and love their execution? You want to…
Course Outline Creativity and Entrepreneurship in Practice introduces students to the more practical elements of innovation and entrepreneurship. In this class, you will design your own product or service and ideally have an early stage startup by the end of the term. Whereas MAN 633 Entrepreneurial Spirit starts with already advanced projects, MAN 631 starts at the very grassroots of building a business. During…
Course Outline Founders and co-founders of startups such as Amorelie, contagt, Coffee Circle, Leaf Systems, Stocard and many others are students or alumni of the University of Mannheim. They all are examples of successful entrepreneurs, who have pursued new business opportunities in an innovative and path-breaking way. This course is about gaining a general understanding of entrepreneurship and its underlying…
Course Outline This seminar briefly summarizes the evolution of social entrepreneurship as a method of organizing change: the application of entrepreneurial theory to the founding of non-profit and for-profit organizations, which seek to build 'social capital'. Given political and economic uncertainty, the anticipated exit from nuclear energy sources in an era of scarce resources on the one hand and the…
