Overview of the Entrepreneurial courses and Activities at TU Delft Delft University of Technology Delft University of Technology Ever thought about starting up your own company? The TU Delft offers loads of options for entrepreneurial students! Whether you have a brilliant idea or just want to explore the possibilities. From business lectures and start up visits abroad, to hackatons and courses in writing a business plan. Find out more about the entrepreneurial side of the university in this brochure. The diagram on page 2 will tell you all about the activities and helps you find the opportunity that suits you best. YES!Delft Students: Where students become entrepreneurs
Ampelmann Operations, YES!Delft Startup What do you want to know about entrepreneurship? The diagram on this page will help you find the course or activity that answers your questions on entrepreneurship. The TU Delft offers several options and has different programs to support you, amongst which YES!Delft (Students), the Valorisation Centre, Delft Enterprises and the Delft Centre for Entrepreneurship. Please also visit www.tudelft.nl/en/business/ entrepreneurship-education for more information. Inspiring Activities If you are curious about starting up a company, but you don t know how, the TU Delft organises several inspiring activities that help to fan the entrepreneurial flame. These activities are worth joining, not only because they are mostly free of charge, but alsobecause you get the chance to meet people who already started their own company. Please also visit www.yesdelftstudents.nl/ YESDelftStudents/Activities for more information or contact YES!Delft Students via education@ yesdelft.nl. YES!Delft Students Activities Entrepreneurship Forum Meet the founders of the world s biggest firms. Inspirational lectures See how many people already started their journey towards entrepreneurship. 1. What Entrepreneurial Activity suits me? Business Idea? No Yes ECTS? ECTS? No Yes No Yes Page 2 Page 4 Page 6 Page 7 2
Delft Centre for Entrepreneurship (DCE) Women Event High-profile entrepreneurial women give insight in their world of entrepreneurship. Do-It! Game An exciting and interactive business game that shows you the difference steps towards starting a company. 1 2 STARTUP-weekend Take a ride through the entire cycle of starting your own business within 72 hours. Europe Trip Discover how European colleague entrepreneurs seal the deal. Come With Me To... Experience entrepreneurship beyond your borders Start-up Career Event Looking for an internships or a place to write your final thesis? Startup companies offer positions during the Career Event. The TU Delft Centre for Entrepreneurship (DCE) encourages students and researchers from the TU Delft to become entrepreneurs and to engage in entrepreneurial activities. We help students gain knowledge with courses about entrepreneurship, such as finance, product development and marketing, and support researchers in transferring their knowledge to the market. The TU Delft has the right resources for people to gain significant knowledge about entrepreneurship, develop their skills and start their own company. By bringing entrepreneurial people together, the TU Delft Centre for Entrepreneurship contributes to the innovative and competitive capacity of the Dutch economy. Contact: - dce@tudelft.nl - www.tbm.tudelft.nl over-faculteit/afdelingen/ stafafdelingen/dce Monthly Incubator Tour Meet the (experienced) entrepreneurs of incubator YES!Delft and discover the latest prototypes. Study specific Case Day Meet entrepreneurs in your specific field. Do-It! Game 3
2. Brainstrorm during the 1 2 Startup Weekend Entrepreneurial Education As a university, the TU Delft off course also offers education on entrepreneurship. All students may apply for any of the courses, even without an idea for a business. The special master courses are accessible for all master students. When the courses are chosen as part of the elective space within a master, ECTS study points can also be gained. Please also visit www.tudelft.nl/en/business/ entrepreneurship-education for more information DCE: Technology-based Entrepreneurship Learn the different aspects of bringing a technical product to the market. MOT-Mi-088, 30 ECTS L.Hartmann@tudelft.nl DCE: Medtech-based Entrepreneurship Entrepreneurship in the medical world MOT-Mi-153, 30 ECTS J.Spaans@tudelft.nl Bachelor-Courses LST: Maatschappelijk verantwoord ondernemen Walk through the different fases of setting up your own company. 4052MAVEOY, 3 ECTS P.Osseweijer@tudelft.nl CiTG: Waterworks in Practice Entrepreneurship in the world of water. (part of a minor) CT3411, 6 ECTS M.W.Ertsen@tudelft.nl Winners of Ready to Startup! Bachelor-Minor DCE: International Entrepreneurship & Development Become an entrepreneur in a developing country. WM-Mi-101, 30 ECTS J.O.Kroesen@tudelft.nl Entrepreneurship@TU Delft Curious about what your faculty has to offer you in the field of entrepreneurship? Do you want to know which professor can tell you everything about the entrepreneurship programs offered at the TU Delft and can support you in starting up your own company? Entrepreneurship@TU Delft makes this all possible and offers you a professor with entrepreneurial expertise at your faculty! Besides implementing entrepreneurship in the regular curriculum he can also support you in graduating on your own start-up company. Interested? 4 Contact: - education@yesdelft.nl - www.tudelft.nl/en/business/entrepreneurshipeducation
Lacquey, robot grasping solutions, YES!Delft Startup Master Electives DCE: Experience Entrepreneurship Conduct a case study and get a real world entrepreneurial experience. WM4028TU, 5 ECTS E.Sjoer@tudelft.nl DCE: Turning Technology into Business How do I create commercial value out of a patent from the TU Delft. WM0516TU, 6 ECTS L.Hartmann@tudelft.nl EWI: Telecom, Architectures & Business Models Learn about entrepreneurship in telecommunication networks. ET4034, 4 ECTS N.H.G.Baken@tudelft.nl IDE: Design Consultancy Practice Learn how to set up your own design consultancy business. ID 5652, 3 ECTS F.E.H.M.Smulders@tudelft.nl DCE: Corporate Entrepreneurship How can you be an entrepreneur and innovate within a corporation? MOT9556, 6 ECTS V.E.Scholten@tudelft.nl EWI: High Tech Startups How do I start a high-tech company? ET4247, 5 ECTS K.L.M.Bertels@tudelft.nl D-Exto: Sustainable Innovation in Practice Put your sustainable innovation into practice at a festival for example. WM0944TU, 5 ECTS G.deWerk@tudelft.nl TNW: Responsible Innovation Sustainable innovations be used to start-up. SPM9239, 3 ECTS I.R.vandePoel@tudelft.nl DCE: Patent law and patent policy Deal with intellectual property in your start-up? WM0781TU, 5 ECTS J.R.Ortt@tudelft.nl Climate-KIC: The Journey Discovery in 2 weeks how sustainable entrepreneurship works in the EU. WM4019TU, 6 ECTS P.A.vanDuin@tudelft.nl Master Programmes Carice, YES!Delft Startup DCE: Entrepreneurship Annotation Use your business idea for your graduation thesis. Delft Centre for Entrepreneurship, 17 ECTS L.M.Kamp@tudelft.nl Climate-KIC: EIT Label Learn everything there is to know about sustainable entrepreneurship. 12<= ECTS P.A.vanderDuin@tudelft.nl EWI: EIT ICT Labs Use your IT knowledge to learn about entrepreneurship and start your own IT start-up. 120 ECTS F.W.Jansen@tudelft.nl 5
3. Activities that kick start your company Are you entrepreneurial minded or do you want to kick start your idea? There are loads of extra activities to do. The door of the board of YES!Delft Students is always open for questions and inspiration. There are several competitions, workshops and network events. YES!Delft Students Events 1 2 STARTUP-weekend Take a ride through the entire cycle of starting your own business within 72 hours. Realisation program Get personal coaching from the entrepreneurs of YES!Delft and learn from other student entrepreneurs. TEDxDelft Award Ideas worth spreading. Sparring Dinner Find out what other entrepreneurs think about your business idea Cleantech Challenge Win the biggest worldwide sustainable business plan competition (in combination with WM0943 TU) Launch Lab Test your business model and find your launching customer. Entrepreneurshipforum Other activities Philips Innovation Award Your business plan may be worth at least 50.000,- euro. www.phia.nl New Venture New Venture will help you with writing a businessplan and the grow your network. www.newventure.nl D-Exto Develop and validate your idea at a Sustainable festival pavilion to a technically feasible concept. WM0227HPB, 5 ECTS G.deWerk@tudelft.nl IDE: Startup Fund Get max. 2.500,- euro of TU Delft to build your prototype to startup your business. Contact: L.D.Sleebos@tudelft.nl Dream hall Use your ambition idea to start your project. Information: www.ddream.nl YES!Delft (Students) YES!Delft Students is part of YES!Delft, the largest high-tech incubator of Europe. As incubator, YES!Delft supports starting technical entrepreneurs with an extensive development and education program with many facilities and a valuable network. Over 140 companies have been founded in YES!Delft since 2005. YES!Delft Students, the student organization of YES!Delft, encourages and supports motivated students from the Delft University of Technology and surroundings who wish to expand their horizons in the dynamic field of entrepreneurship. We achieve this by organizing challenging events that highlight the opportunities and possibilities of entrepreneurship. 6 Contact: - education@yesdelft.nl - www.yesdelftstudents.nl
4. Education that assists in starting your company If you already have a start up and/or business plan there are courses within th TU Delft that may halp you to improve your entrepreneurial skills. These courses require that you have your own business idea and team. Please also visit www.tudelft.nl/en/business/entrepreneurship-education for more information The master courses are accessible for all master students. When the courses are chosen as part of the elective space within a master, ECTS study points can also be gained. Bachelor-Minor Free Minor, 30 ECTS Use your own company during your minor? YES!Delft Students can help you with this. education@yesdelft.nl Master Electives EWI: HighTech Start ups How do I start a high-tech company? ET4247, 5 ECTS K.L.M.Bertels@tudelft.nl IDE: (C)leantech launch pad Learn from a serial entrepreneur how to launch your company. 3 + 6 ECTS F.E.H.M.Smulders@tudelft.nl DCE: Ready to Startup! Learn from experts how to write a business plan and how to start-up. WM0506TU, 6 ECTS education@yesdelft.nl Valorisation Centre The valorisation of knowledge is the creation of social and economic value based on scientific knowledge and skills. The Valorisation Center stimulates and facilitates TU Delft scientists and supporting employees in knowledge valorisation. In recent years valorisation has developed into a core activity of the TU Delft next to education and research. Entrepreneurial education and facilitating starting companies (Delft Enterprises), but also the joint venturing with corporations to participate in big research consortia and cutting-edge contract research, are examples of valorisation activities which will continue to increasingly grow the coming years. Contact: - valorisationcentre@tudelft.nl - www.vc.tudelft.nl DCE: Sustainable Business Game Win the biggest worldwide sustainable business plan competition. (In combination with the Cleantech Challenge) WM0943TU, 5 ECTS K.Hemmes@tudelft.nl DCE: Experience Entrepreneurship Conduct a case study and get a real world entrepreneurial experience. WM4028TU, 5 ECTS E.Sjoer@tudelft.nl D-Exto Develop and validate your idea at a Sustainable festival pavilion to a technically feasible concept. (Only for students who are a part of the honours program) WM0227HPB, 5 ECTS G.deWerk@tudelft.nl senz umbrellas, YES!Delft startup 7
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