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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Don't miss the guest lecture talk by Dirk Meurer on Corporate Venture Capital tomorrow (April 30) between 1:45pm-3:15pm in O131 (Mannheim Castle, Eastwing). Dirk is founder and managing partner of Vorwerk Ventures, one of the most successful corporate VCs in Germany. He will be giving a lecture on searching and investing in promising startups, how to raise a fund and…
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…
Please note: the information here is still from the Spring Semester 2019. You can get an overview of the course format but there will come some changes for the upcoming semester shortly. Please check back for an update! Making Things Happen Course Outline The title image of this Course Syllabus says it all... This course is about making…
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…
