Updated: February 2013
2013
APPLICATION
INSTRUCTION
Master’s Programme
Entrepreneurship &
Business Design
Round 2:
Chalmers Students
Last application date:
April 1, 2013
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AN INVITATION to apply
Chalmers School of Entrepreneurship has a tradition of being an environment
where talented individuals come together to actively engage in forming a better
future through new innovations, new companies, better companies, and new
and better products and services.
In order to create this environment we have designed an admissions process
where we do not only evaluate formal academic merits, but also try to see the
potential in the individual. Additionally, we also try to see how these individuals
complement each other in order to have a good mix of students for the class
as a whole. Since we focus on team-based entrepreneurship we would like a
student body consisting of different educational backgrounds, different personalities, and different life experiences. Our experience and track record clearly
show that bringing together students that are willing to learn and work hard can
accomplish great things together.
The document you have in front of you describes the admissions process we
have designed for our programme and it is intended to help you with your application. The process is designed based on our fifteen years of operating the
School of Entrepreneurship, taking into consideration our aim to admit the most
suitable students and at the same time abide by rules and regulations. We want
a process that is fair and where all candidates have an equal chance to demonstrate their capabilities and ambitions.
We hope you will take the time and effort to put together an application demonstrating your capabilities and thus convincing us to admit you to the programme.
If you succeed and are offered a spot in the end, we guarantee you two great
years of learning, and an experience of a life-time.
We wish you the best of luck with your application!
The faculty
Chalmers School of Entrepreneurship
we are looking for individuals
with a potential and desire to
grow
We would like each applicant to indicate possessing a mixture of all of the
following:
• Motivation and commitment to the education
• Teamwork experience and social skills
• Communicative skills
• Social maturity and awareness
•Responsibility
• Ability to handle complexity and ambiguity
• Strive for excellence
To create a good mix of students each applicant should be able to
distinguish him/herself within any area of the following:
• Analytical skills
•Creativity
• Facilitator skills
• Leadership skills
• Visionary skills
Our programme will give you a comprehensive understanding of key strategic issues in the industry and
provide you with the real-life experience of creating and developing technology based ventures. The education is built around an interactive, action based pedagogy, through which the students learn to manage the
complexity of knowledge-based business. In order to cater to different stages of innovation and different
kinds of technology, the programme is divided into four different tracks where the first semester is taken as a
common class. Already in the admissions process you indicate which track you would like to pursue.
BIO
This track focuses on bioscience entrepreneurship and developing bioscience ventures. Through this track students learn tools
and gain hands-on experience from business creation of real-life innovation projects.
Within this track, students gain access to the
network necessary to master an early-stage
venture in the field, as well as be capable to
manage projects with critical time demands,
regulatory issues and large growth potential.
corp
This track offers the students to work on managing entrepreneurial skills to handle the large
scale of complexities in large firms, in enabling innovative new products and services to
be developed. Corporate entrepreneurs can
be found in all parts and levels of an organization, and is defined as the way these persons
are seeking difficult challenges to work with
and ways how to manage and find innovative
solutions to truly difficult dilemmas.
The ICM-track focuses on how to evaluate
and package intellectual assets from R&D
in the academia and industry. Students admitted to the track will profile themselves in
becoming skilful advisors regarding intellectual asset and property management in highly
knowledge intensive environments. They will
possess the tools that allow knowledge to be
developed and transacted upon in complex
and open innovation settings.
TECH
In order to find out more about the education and the activities at Chalmers School of Entrepreneurship,
please visit our website: www.entrepreneur.chalmers.se
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Students admitted to this track will profile
themselves with respect to technology venture creation including team dynamics aspects, business model learning, sales and
marketing as well as technology and product
development. Ultimately you are put in the
driver’s seat of an innovative high-tech project
to develop hands-on skills about business
creation and entrepreneurial leadership.
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the Admissions process 2013
The admissions process contains several steps where different parties are
engaged in the different stages. At some points it will be necessary for us
to contact you and therefore it is important that the contact information (email address and phone number) you submit in your formal application at
universityadmissions.se is updated and correct. On the following pages you
will find descriptions of the main stages of the admissions process to our
Master’s Programme.
In the image below there is a graphic overview of the process. As
you can see the processes and evaluations sometimes take place
simultaneously in order for us to finalize the process in due time. As
a consequence, moving forward in the process does not necessarily
mean you have passed the evaluation in the Eligibility step. E.g. you
might be deemed ineligible at a later stage due to non-submission
of requested documents.
This document
contains a lot of useful
and important information, so please read it
through carefully!
Please note the changed dates for the interviews: May 6th - May 8th!
You submit your application, including relevant
documents, at universityadmissions.se.
You submit more information through an
on-line form, provided in an e-mail from the
School’s admissions committee
A number of applicants will
be invited to a final interview
You need to respond whether
you accept your spot or not.
formal application
extended application
The School’s admissions committee evaluates the information you have sent to us
The central admissions office at Chalmers examines
that you have the correct academic background and
merits
final interview
Response
If invited, you will participate in an interview with
members of the School’s admissions committee
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ELIGIBILITY
The first step of the process is to make sure you meet the formal requirements of the programme concerning educational background and obtained
academic credits. This is to verify that you will be able to follow the education, but also that you will be able to receive a formal degree when you
graduate and complete the education.
The application must be submitted using the Swedish National on-line application system, www.antagning.se and must be submitted no later than
April 1, 2013. Please make sure you submit all documents requested by
Chalmers, since failure to do so might prevent you from being part of the
process. You are also strongly adviced to make sure that the e-mail address
you provide in the system is one that you use since our main means of communication is via e-mail!
Your eligibility is evaluated centrally by the admissions office at Chalmers
University of Technology, and it is also they who decide which formal documentation you need to submit and when it is to be submitted. If you do not
understand what documentation they are asking for, or do not think you will
be able to provide the documents in time you must communicate with the
admissions office.
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SUITABILITY
Just making sure you meet the formal eligibility is not enough. We would
like to know more about you, what drives you, what your plans are, etc.
Therefore, we will ask you to provide us with information that is not
found in the formal application. With this material we will have a better
chance of seeing your unique potential and how you could fit into our
education.
As previously explained, what we are looking for are candidates that
have a solid base to develop from, and who can distinguish themselves
in one or several areas. In other words, we want students who are contributing to the mix of capabilities and personalities that are necessary
within team-based entrepreneurship and at the same time are able to
participate in a high pace academic education.
No later than April 5th, you will receive an e-mail from us with the details
how to submit information for this Suitability evaluation. If you haven’t
received any further instructions from us by April 5th 12:00, please contact us immediately. We do recommend you to start preparing yourself
as soon as possible, and don’t wait for the further instructions. Therefore, at the end of this document you will find information about everything we will ask for in this second step.
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CLOSING THE
DEAL
Mainly based on written essay questions but also a voluntary
video presentation some candidates will proceed to an interview
with members of the School’s admissions committee. The purpose of the interview is to ask some clarifying questions and to
straighten out question marks that might have occurred prior in
the process. After the interviews the admissions committee will
make their final decision which applicants they would like to admit
to the programme.
The interviews will take place during May 6th - May 8th. Please
avoid making any other appointments during this period. If you are
invited to an interview you will receive information regarding exact
time and place approximately one week prior to the interview.
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FINAL
DECISION
When the School’s admissions committee has made its decision all
candidates will be contacted. The ones who are admitted, or who
are placed on the waiting list, will be asked if they accept this spot
or not. The School needs to know for planning purposes, and if they
should admit any students from the waiting list or not.
Additionally, you will be reminded that you also have to respond
through the antagning.se website in order to complete the process.
If you do not respond in due time you will lose your spot on the programme.
In conclusion, it is really important that you respond both to the
School’s admissions committee and the central administration on
antagning.se.
WHAT TO SUBMIT
FOR STEP 2
Essay Questions & MORE
As said before, in order to have a better picture of your suitability for the programme we would like some more
information about you. You need to respond to a set of essay questions outlined below. Additionally, you may also
record a short video presentation of yourself, also described below. We will also ask you to submit information
about previous working experience and other extracurricular activities. Finally, you need to indicate which track
of the programme you prefer, or if you could consider more than one, in which order you rank your preferences.
Each question has a minimum (250) and maximum (500) number of words so you need to devote some time and
effort into preparing your answers, making sure you provide as much relevant information as possible while being
coherent and to the point in your writing. As you will be using our on-line form you should focus on the content,
not on making the text pretty.
Some friendly advices before you submit your answer:
• Have you actually answered the question?
• Is your answer clear and understandable?
• Have you proof read the answers for any spelling errors or other mistakes?
Voluntary Video Presentation
“Why are you a suitable candidate for this
programme and the tracks of your interest?”
As a voluntary task you may also record a short video presentation of yourself, not exceeding one minute. The
video doesn’t have to be complicated or advanced; you can e.g. use your mobile phone to record it. The purpose
of the video is to help us form an even better picture of who you are by adding a dimension to the essay questions.
ESSAY QUESTIONS
1
Who are you?
What do you see as your best and worst personal qualities? How would you utilize your best
qualities in this education, and how would you compensate for your worst qualities? Please
elaborate by providing one clear example of the qualities you mention, demonstrating a real
life problem that you were part of solving.
2
Where are you heading?
Please describe what your goal is with this education and what plans you have for the future? Allowing yourself to dream, where will you be in maybe 5 or 10 years? How does this
correspond to prior choices you have made concerning education? How will this education
help you to accomplish your plans for the future?
(If you apply to more than one track, please take that into consideration when elaborating
your answer.)
3
How do you interact with others?
Please describe what role you usually take in a group, and why? How do you think others
perceive you? Use concrete examples and describe what you have learnt from your experiences of team work. Examples of special interest are when you created something in an
environment that was new for you and with persons having different competence than you.
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What has made you the person you are today?
Looking back at your life so far, why do you think you are where you are today? What factors
and persons have influenced you? Are there examples of challenges/hardships that became
defining moments for you?
What would you like to change in the world?
Describe a problem in society you would like to change. Why is it a problem? How would
you go about solving the problem? How will you contribute to the solution?
QUESTIONS
CONCERNING THE ADMISSIONS
PROCESS
Questions relating to eligibility must be directed to:
antagning@chalmers.se
Other questions about the programme and the admissions
process must be directed to:
info@entrepreneur.chalmers.se
On our website you can find FAQs with corresponding
answers in order to help you with your application.