That the students acquire competences in the part of food product development, which is concerned with food product design and the food product technology associated with that. This would typically be the tasks that product developers would be assigned in a product development laboratory in the food industry.
Innovation Courses
This course is an introduction to technology entrepreneurship. The aim of the course is to bring together students from different backgrounds, in order to develop commercialization strategies for technologies developed at DTU. The course will introduce students to concepts, models and tools that can be used in order to: identify and evaluate market opportunities for a university technology; to develop a business case; and to effectively communicate (pitch) the business case to create interest and attract resources. The course will draw upon the fields of entrepreneurship, strategy, management and marketing. It will also provide a sustainability angle to spark the students’ interest towards the creation of SDG-oriented technology startups. This course is relevant not only to the students who want to become entrepreneurs, but also to the ones who aspire to become the “engineers of the future” and work as innovators in established companies.
The general course objective is to create a sustainable entrepreneurship lab offering a stimulating and hands-on educational environment, where students work, in collaboration with impact entrepreneurs and other stakeholders, on impactful startup ideas contributing to societal grand challenges (like the ones represented by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals) and the regeneration of environmental and social systems.
This course is an introduction to technology entrepreneurship. The aim of the course is to bring together students from different backgrounds, in order to develop commercialization strategies for technologies developed at DTU. The course will introduce students to concepts, models and tools that can be used in order to: identify and evaluate market opportunities for a university technology; to develop a business case; and to effectively communicate (pitch) the business case to create interest and attract resources. The course will draw upon the fields of entrepreneurship, strategy, management and marketing. It will also provide a sustainability angle to spark the students’ interest towards the creation of SDG-oriented technology startups. This course is relevant not only to the students who want to become entrepreneurs, but also to the ones who aspire to become the “engineers of the future” and work as innovators in established companies.
To create a learning environment where students work in mixed disciplinary teams to turn technology or market opportunity/need into a product/service and a new business venture. Unlike usual product development or entrepreneurship courses, we have a focus on business to business (B2B), taking students out of their comfort zones, pushing them behind the scenes of unfamiliar technologies and business sectors. The course is set in an incubator format and emphasizes a learning by doing philosophy. To speed up the learning process, we bring in some of the country’s top X-Tech Entrepreneurs, most of them founders and CEOs. Each of the keynotes will help to emphasis the importance of the methods and theory being taught in the course. The overall course objective is to create a technology demonstrator and a business plan that will be pitched to the examiners (and investors) – with the aim to raise investment and to spinout.
The course allows students to explore and learn basic skills and knowledge in the financing of entrepreneurial ventures and understand the process of financing entrepreneurial ventures from the perspective of entrepreneurs and investors. It addresses key issues which challenge all entrepreneurs: how to identify financial needs and how much money should be raised; how to develop basic financial plans; when should funding be raised; from whom should funding be raised; what is a reasonable valuation of the company; how to negotiate terms of investment; and how to make exit decisions. Additionally, the course addresses various financing arrangements and methods (for example, bootstrapping, angels, venture capitals, corporate venture capitals, crowdfunding, and accelerators). In the end, the course aims to prepare students to learn how to make critical decisions on entrepreneurial finance.
The course aims to prepare students to use an entrepreneurial mindset in a variety of professional contexts. The course will help students develop skills to cope with the dynamic and complex environment where technology meets business, which can be either in a startup, but also in a university or company setting.
The primary goal of the course is to expose students to a variety of perspectives on technological corporate innovation, building on an active learning process and preparing for work challenges in the future.
DTU X-Tech+ is structured in an accelerator format and is built around a strong learning-by-doing philosophy. To strengthen and accelerate the learning process, the startup teams work closely with experienced professionals participating through DTU’s Board Education. This collaboration helps professionalise the teams and ensures that the methods and theory taught in the course are applied directly to real strategic decisions and company development. The overall objective of the course is to accelerate and professionalise technology-based startups, both teams continuing from DTU X-Tech (38103) and selected external startups, enabling them to reach investment readiness and build impactful tech spinouts. Throughout the programme, all participating teams compete for prizes and grants, which are awarded at the final DTU X-Tech Finals event at the end of the semester.
The course aims to provide students with a solid understanding of dialogue-based methods for involving stakeholders and using artefacts in innovation processes. It also develops students’ practical skills in facilitating co-creation workshops. Throughout the course, students will learn to analyse, select, develop, and test techniques and tools that support the active involvement of practitioners in both real and simulated design processes. Key approaches include user-driven innovation, participatory design, universal design, and co-creation. Students are expected to demonstrate a deep understanding of these approaches and critically reflect on their significance in relation to staged dialogue, the broader design process, and resulting outcomes. The course provides a strong foundation for designing and facilitating interdisciplinary collaboration involving diverse stakeholders. This includes activities related to front-end innovation, idea generation, synthesis, and the testing and evaluation of design solutions and performances. Students will also build a theoretical basis for reflection, grounded in the course literature. Finally, the course incorporates real-world challenges, where students work in teams to plan and carry out co-creation activities addressing a variety of complex problems.
The purpose of the course is to help students learn to combine insights about real-world management and leadership issues with practical consulting experience. The course consists of scheduled class meetings, client meetings, a class presentation and final individual report related to the consulting experience. DTU students will work together with visiting students from Johns Hopkins University to develop solutions for a specific client, and have the opportunity to interact with its stakeholders such as clients and managers in the Copenhagen area, reflect on organizational processes, and receive on-going guidance and formal end-of-experience feedback.
The course will enable students to understand the interplay between products and services and the market, and to develop their skills in entrepreneurial marketing by following a customer development process.
The purpose of the course is to introduce students to generative AI technologies for creating scalable startups leveraging the potential of agents and models, by utilizing high level application frameworks to design prototype concepts, and assess business potential as well as societal impact.
This course addresses an important challenge for entrepreneurial students: Handling the challenges that come with being an entrepreneur and a student simultaneously. The purpose of this course is to understand and explore different approaches on how to organize the students' educational, entrepreneurial and person life. This will be achieved by studying e.g. students’ competency development, understanding team dynamics, planning project work, and handling conflicts in multi-disciplinary within a team. Furthermore, there is emphasis on internal and external (verbal, visual and written) communication. The students will reflect how the different tools and techniques are relevant, and can be used to improve their personal, entrepreneurial and education life (based on literature or personal experience). The learning of this course will help students to organize the rest of their MSc education in Technology Entrepreneurship.
The course aims to prepare students to deal with and manage the human side of building a new technology venture. The course will help students develop skills to cope with the dynamic, complex and ever-changing environment of a rapidly growing new technology venture. The students will learn how to create and manage a mission-driven startup culture and identity how to prepare that culture for growth including how to make a transition to an expanding political culture. The students will address issues related to: the introduction of organizational structure with formalized systems and processes; supporting this transition with a hiring strategy and building and sustaining a collaborative culture. Furthermore, the course provide opportunities for students to explore different talent acquisition and relationship management strategies to support the new venture missions. Finally, the course introduces students to the most common reasons for failure in early and late stage technology ventures and prepare them to identify and manage the constant risk.
This course provides a comprehensive and hands-on introduction to the early investment process for technology-based start-ups. It covers key aspects of a due diligence process such as criteria and approaches of different types of investors and investments, and an understanding of how an investor analyses and evaluates an investment opportunity. Alongside financial, market, technical, team-based criteria, students will apply an assessment of their idea with regards to environmental and social impact. Thus, the main purpose of this course is to learn the due diligence process, to be able to conduct one and most importantly prepare for one from the perspective of their own start-up. Students will have the opportunity to hear from external speakers and real cases from early tech investors/entrepreneurs. They will get a chance to look behind the scene and put themselves into the shoes of an early investor by not only going through a due diligence process with their own business idea but also evaluating others.
In this course students will learn the skills and techniques of deciding whether a business idea is worth the investment in time and money needed to get it off the ground. In lectures, exercises and group work the students gradually learn how to perform feasibility studies. Throughout the course, students work on two real-life cases, for which they elaborate a comprehensive feasibility report and present their work to external examiners. The business ideas can derive from students, companies, DTU technology or (societal) challenges. Within these two different projects, students will actively perform feasibility studies in different team constellations. The teams will look at the evidence of need and customer development, potential market size, technical feasibility and constraints, cost of development and the availability of funding to both initiate the project and to keep it going. As the projects centre around sustainable solutions, students will actively integrate sustainability indicators and ethical considerations that can provide supplementary information with regard to the opportunities and risks involved in a business idea. The course shall prepare MSc Technology Entrepreneurship students to decide on a project and team to work on throughout the rest of their studies. It will also prepare them to navigate in a professional work environment that demands skills in both engineering and economics, e.g. as in business development or project management. Most of the work will happen outside the classroom and will be done in groups. The groups will be formed by the course responsible based on students' own priorities, with an emphasis on group heterogeneity.
The aim of the course is to deepen the strategy and business development of an early-stage start-up.
The aim of the course is to move from a business idea to a proof-of-concept stage that will be tested, validated and if necessary, changed.
The aim of the course is to deepen the strategy and business development of an early-stage start-up focusing on the validation of their business ideas, value proposition, and problem/solution alignment.
The aim of the course is to deepen the strategy and business development of an early-stage start-up focusing on the validation and development of their business model and customer base, and develop a MVP of their product/service.
The course introduces students to apply competencies and methods to enable innovation in engineering within multidisciplinary teams. Students will: - Understand how to follow and apply a structure innovation process to a real-life engineering challenge - Experience the varied innovation landscape by navigating and applying their skills in it - Contribute with collaborative initiatives in a team context to allow new perspectives - Combine their disciplines through various methods in a facilitated innovation process - Acquire the DTU's signature Innovation Mindset and application of multidisciplinary teams - Be able to communicate key findings to relevant stakeholders and adjust from their inputs - Acquire a toolkit of structured methods to increase the innovative probability - Create new solution-oriented ideas and mature these into a final concept proposal
The course aims to equip the student with competencies in facilitating innovation in multidisciplinary teams in an engineering context. Students will: - Understand what it takes to facilitate an innovation process in an industry challenge. - Experience the varied innovation landscape by navigating and applying their skills in it given their expanded innovation and facilitation competencies. - Facilitate collaborative initiatives in a group context to develop new perspectives. - Identify value and limitations of new solution-oriented ideas and encourage maturing these into a final concept proposition. - Acquire the DTU's signature Innovation Mindset in the application of multidisciplinary teams and further develop their own approach to innovation. - Expand their toolkit of structured methods to increase the innovative probability.
The course introduces students to apply competencies and methods to enable innovation in engineering within multidisciplinary teams. Students will: - Understand how to follow and apply a structure innovation process to a real-life engineering challenge - Experience the varied innovation landscape by navigating and applying their skills in it - Contribute with collaborative initiatives in a team context to allow new perspectives - Combine their disciplines through various methods in a facilitated innovation process - Acquire the DTU's signature Innovation Mindset and application of multidisciplinary teams - Be able to communicate key findings to relevant stakeholders and adjust from their inputs - Acquire a toolkit of structured methods to increase the innovative probability - Create new solution-oriented ideas and mature these into a final concept proposal