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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Course Outline The course focuses on the knowledge and skills necessary for developing a new global business. 'High tech’ and 'low cost’, or frugal innovative start-ups are compared and contrasted as potential solutions to the global unemployment crisis taking business cycles, cultural contexts and levels of development into account. Models of managing international change are the basis. Please note: This…
Making Things Happen Course Outline The title image of this Course Syllabus says it all... 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…
Course Outline The course encourages the further development of student business ideas from all faculties of the University of Mannheim. Within the course format, students develop their own already existing business ideas individually or as a start-up team (after consultation). Milestones tailored to each startup are set at the beginning of the course. Coaching by MCEI employees to develop innovative…
Course Outline Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Business Model Design teaches students to translate innovations and business ideas into business models. MAN 450 introduces students to generation and management of innovative enterprise activity across multiple contexts along with the exploration of students' own entrepreneurial potential. This course focuses on two main themes: I. management of idea & innovation processes and II. implementation…
