Minor
Entrepreneurship
Develop your entrepreneurial
mindset at Tilburg University
An entrepreneurial mindset is key to anyone’s career, whether
it is as an employee within a firm or as a business owner.
The minor in Entrepreneurship helps you grow this mindset,
develop the necessary business knowledge and entrepreneurial
skills, and prepares you to either start-up your own business or
bring entrepreneurial thinking to established companies.
The minor consists of three courses and in addition offers webbased and practical skills training. It is open to all 3rd year Tilburg
University Bachelor’s students and takes place in the first semester.
The minor is offered by the Tilburg Center of Entrepreneurship and
represents 18 ECTS. You can receive a certificate ‘Entrepreneurship’
upon successful completion of the minor.
www.tilburguniversity.edu/tce
Why this minor?
This minor combines stimulating, inspiring lectures and case studies with online
and offline skills training sessions. You gain a sound understanding of key concepts
in entrepreneurial theory, conduct practical assignments, and train your
entrepreneurial skills. The knowledge, skills and certificate help set you apart in your
future career.
Courses
Entrepreneurship: Theory & Practice
This course introduces you to the key concepts linked to entrepreneurship. It deals
with topics like the nature of entrepreneurial thinking, business models and how to
fund and grow start-ups, the importance of the start-up team, developing a good
network, finding and learning from your customers. In addition, it challenges you to
create or discover an entrepreneurial opportunity. You then evaluate it, develop a
plan to validate your business idea, and prepare to attract investors to back your
start-up.
Introduction to Corporate Entrepreneurship
Being entrepreneurial within a company, that’s what this course is about. Large companies tend to focus on running their existing business, become less innovative and
inflexible. They can lose sight of the need to innovate, adapt and be entrepreneurial.
This course helps you to understand the role and importance of an entrepreneurial
mindset in larger corporations.
Creative Entrepreneurship
In this course you will study entrepreneurship in the context of those industries
where creativity is a key element in their value proposition to the public, such as the
gaming, film or design industries. You will discuss the opportunities and risks from
globalization and the development of the internet and how these changes can lead to
new business models and new types of business.
Skills training
The minor courses contain web-based and practical skills training sessions,
such as:
• Entrepreneurial Business Planning: Theory and Practice
• Presentation Skills
More information
www.tilburguniversity.edu/tce
013 466 3320
tce@tilburguniversity.edu