Incorporating a minor entrepreneurship supports developing a diverse skill set and an entrepreneurial mindset, in preparation to become a well-rounded and adaptable professional. VU Amsterdam offers several minors related to entrepreneurship, or to entrepreneurship in the context of innovation.
Transform creative ideas into successful business ventures. In the minor Entrepreneurship at VU Amsterdam, you dive into the challenges entrepreneurs face and develop a proactive attitude.
This minor provides fundamental knowledge about what it takes to transform creative ideas into successful business ventures. Specifically, the minor will allow you to better appreciate different forms of entrepreneurship across different contexts, understand the unique challenges faced by entrepreneurs, and find creative solutions for overcoming these challenges.
Capture opportunities of sustainability in organizations. The minor Sustainability: Management and Innovation is rooted in business and economics to explore how management and innovation can contribute to sustainable development.
Addressing the grand challenges of sustainability also offers opportunities for business. Sustainable innovations like renewable energy solutions, circular business models, and ‘sharing economy’ platforms, can create profit, but also value for planet and people. In this minor you will learn to understand sustainability challenges and implications for organizations, and learn how to design sustainable strategies, value chains, and innovations.
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The minor Science, Business and Innovation provides natural science students with a multidisciplinary theoretical basis in business and innovation studies necessary to valorise and commercialise science.
Society looks at natural sciences to solve many of the grand challenges we face today, however commercializing scientific discoveries is a challenge in itself. Being able to converse with scientists on advanced natural scientific subjects while also being able to develop business through innovation is highly valued in today’s labor markets. And in a nutshell that is what SBI is about.
Develop insight into how technology changes our organizations. The minor Digital Innovation consists of five courses and offers you essential insight in how new digital technologies change the way we work, how organizations can be changed or optimized, how new ways of designing and producing can be developed, and how new opportunities and business models can be found.
At the same time, critical reflection is stimulated on the various reasons for, and consequences of, digital innovation.