Module 2, Course 2: Develop your entrepreneurial thinking (December 14-15, 2021)

This workshop provides an introduction to entrepreneurial thinking. We ground the workshop in the strong belief that the capabilities of entrepreneurship will be critical to every scientist’s or manager’s future career, whether he or she chooses to create a standalone new venture, becomes a member of the corporate world, or wants to excel in academia. The workshop is intended to provide doctoral candidates with an experience of thinking and behaving in the typical manner of successful entrepreneurs. The workshop will explore and examine the core features of entrepreneurship. The central part will be the identification and exploitation of new opportunities to create and capture value. We will also connect such endeavors to your personal motivations and goals.

Having completed the workshop, participants should be able to recognize the fundamental features of the entrepreneurial mindset, behaviors, and skills. Moreover, they will understand the central role of teamwork and how to manage it while identifying and developing entrepreneurial opportunities. Like real-life entrepreneurship, this workshop will be action-oriented and hands-on. Participants should be willing to share ideas, experiences, and ambitions. Main components of the program include: input sessions by the instructors and based on podcasts featuring highly successful entrepreneurs, interactive elements, group discussions, and group presentations.

Prof. Nicola Breugst will conduct this course in English.

About the trainer:

Prof. Dr. Nicola Breugst focuses on the people side of entrepreneurship in her research and practice. Specifically, she addresses questions of entrepreneurial motivation, decision making, and the collaboration in entrepreneurial teams. Nicola studied psychology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich and she earned a PhD in entrepreneurship at Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Jena. She worked at University of Duisburg-Essen, the Max Planck Institute of Economics in Jena, Indiana University, and National University of Singapore. Since March 2012, Nicola holds the professorship of entrepreneurial behavior at Technical University of Munich.