Teaching

In this section you can find an overview of our teaching activities. All ECTS courses are held by the Chair of SME Research and Entrepreneurship.
Please note:
- █ Light green courses are more theoretical. You can expect a lecture and a final exam or term paper.
- █ Dark green courses are more practical. You can expect projects, team work, and advancing your startup.
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Spring Term
Bachelor Level
Fall Term
Spring Term
Master Level
Course Outline This practical course familiarizes students with concepts of entrepreneurial action and sustainable opportunity creation. Students learn key elements of crowdfunding, especially crowd interaction and digital communication, to foster sustainable entrepreneurship via creative ideas. In workshop-like sessions, students are encouraged to develop their own business models and crowdfunding campaign for a social idea focusing on goals such as gender…
MCEI offers the following courses in the upcoming spring semester. MCEI 453 is a course on a Bachelor level, MAN 632 and 633 are Master courses. (1) MAN 453 Thinking Beyond Boxes – Advance your startup The course encourages the further development of student business ideas from all faculties of the University of Mannheim. Within the course format, students develop…
Course Outline This practical course familiarizes students with fundamentals of entrepreneurship, development of sustainable ideas and business models, and how to utilize crowdfunding to resource them. In workshop-like sessions, students will work in teams to develop their own start-up ideas and business models serving ecological sustainability goals and plan a crowdfunding campaign to finance these. Some of the sustainable development…
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…