Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Why this program?
The Minor/LAO Innovation & Entrepreneurship enables students from all faculties to acquire key Future Skills: innovation competence, problem-solving ability, entrepreneurial thinking, and adaptability. The three-semester program (30 ECTS) empowers students to recognize innovation potential, develop visions and solutions, drive them forward, and implement them sustainably.
The program integrates scientifically grounded foundations from diverse disciplines such as psychology, sociology, economics, and law, while creating a balanced connection between theory and practice. Through collaboration with experts from companies, start-ups, and the innovation ecosystem, students translate theoretical concepts into real-world applications and strengthen entrepreneurial thinking in challenge-based projects.
What will I learn?
In the Minor/LAO Innovation & Entrepreneurship students will:
- Analyze innovations and their mechanisms, and critically evaluate them across different contexts and disciplines
- Develop and implement ideas or inventions into practice within organizational, non-profit and start-up contexts
- Assess and strategically leverage innovation ecosystems to create impact
- Apply teamwork, communication, and leadership skills to develop and realize ideas in interdisciplinary teams
- Integrate and refine evidence-based strategies and methods to design sustainable and scalable solutions in real-world challenges
What can I do with it later?
Students develop an interdisciplinary, adaptive understanding of innovation to translate insights from their respective subject contexts into impact-oriented solutions and to act responsibly in various professional fields. Whether as a manager in the corporate world, the innovation economy, the public or non-profit sector, or even as the founder of your own start-up, act as a visionary and develop innovations with a real impact.
