Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Gain the tools and skills required to succeed as an entrepreneur and apply them to your own innovative ideas with advice and feedback from experienced mentors. Innovate in real-world entrepreneurial settings and learn to bring an idea from inception to market. Build your innovative mindset applying creative mapping and design thinking methods.
| Is this program right for you? |
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It is a good fit if you study:
- Business
- Economics
- Entrepreneurship
- Marketing
- Management
- Social Entrepreneurship
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Core Courses
Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Europe
Fall/Spring, 3 Credits
This course works much like an incubator program. It is aimed at students interested in learning the tools and skills required to succeed as entrepreneurs — and in applying these tools in a real-life project. You work in teams (expect a fair amount of group work!) on your own startup. You get hands-on experience tackling the challenges that all entrepreneurs face and you receive advice from experienced mentors as well as inspiration from visits to startups and scaleups. You assume an entrepreneurial and innovative mindset and use methods like Lean Startup, Business Model Canvas, Design Thinking, Value Proposition Design, and Customer Journey Mapping. Along the way, you will meet some of the main Danish, Swedish, and German players in entrepreneurship, including founders of leading startups.
Core Course Study Tours
This program travels on Study Tours to the following destinations:
Early in the semester, you delve into your academic focus during Core Course Week, in which you travel on a short Study Tour for three days in Denmark or a neighboring country, combined with a two-day seminar in Copenhagen. Later in the semester, you travel again with your Core Course on a week-long Study Tour in Europe.
While on tour, theories learned in the classroom come to life by meeting with professionals and experts in your field who contribute to furthering your understanding of course topics. Study Tours are hands-on and experiential, combining theory with practice, and expose you to additional cultural perspectives. You have the opportunity to visit sites and experts in your field of interest that you may not otherwise have access to.
Elective Courses
Add elective courses to complement your Core Course at DIS Copenhagen. You decide how to build your course load based on your needs and interests!
Electives range across disciplines and include research, workshops, studios, and even Exploration Electives, which come with a travel component.
Consider enrolling in the 3-credit course Entrepreneurship Practicum. You will work in teams as a consultative capacity with entrepreneurs from Danish start-ups to solve a current business challenge that the respective entrepreneurs are facing.
Visit our website to view the full list of over 200 additional elective courses!
