Health Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Annotation Program
Faculty of Management, Technology & Policy
Delft Center for EntrepreneurshipMSc Annotation Program
Diploma Master of Science
Credits 15 ECTS
Starts in September 2017
Language English
The MedTech Based Entrepreneurship master annotation offers a comprehensive program for students who want to develop entrepreneurial skills and who are motivated to explore the opportunities for further development of their (business) ideas. The offered program will be additional to the regular 120 ECTS master program.
Basic Entrepreneurship and Innovation courseThe basic course addresses what entrepreneurship and innovation is. The logic of opportunity identification either by analyzing societal challenges or analyzing what the value of technology is for various user applications. It furthermore contains the basic elements of marketing, finance, business modeling approaches. The course is blended with examples from practical cases and guest speakers/ entrepreneurs. (5 ECTS)
Business development lab In this course students work on a real-life case together with professionals or provided by a research group or company and the objective is to identify the opportunity and articulate the implementation and exploitation of that opportunity in a business plan. This course draws on experiential learning and the know-how and skills learned during the other courses on ideation-validation and implementation is practiced and reflected upon. (5 ECTS)
Entrepreneurship and Innovation (E&I) thesis part In this additional part of the master thesis the student reflects upon the societal/ business value of the main topic of the master thesis. Objective is that the student shows how he can identify and appropriate the value of the main know-how of his master thesis topic. For instance the student can describe the next steps that need to be completed to commercialize or introduce the technology investigated during the more science/researchoriented thesis project. (5 ECTS)
Entrepreneurship and Innovation related electives
A set of courses is provided by MSc programs across the university. Students can select a variety of courses about generic disciplines related to entrepreneurship and innovation to complete a personalized annotation program. You can think of specific course on marketing, innovation management or financial management.
Examples of complementary electives at the TU Delft:
BM41060 Physiology & Engineering
Faculty Mechanical Engineering
Period 4
ECTS 3
BM41065 Medical Technology I (Diagnostic devices) & Health Care Systems
Faculty Mechanical Engineering
Period 1,2
ECTS 5
BM41095 Medical instruments A: Clinical challenges and engineering solutions
Faculty Mechanical Engineering
Period 1
ECTS 3
ME41075 Biomedical engineering design
Faculty Mechanical Engineering
Period 2
ECTS 4
ME41095 Bio-inspired design
Faculty Mechanical Engineering
Period 3,4
ECTS 4
ID5711 Anatomy and Surgical Techniques for Engineers
Faculty Industrial Design
Period 3.
ECTS 3
ID5752 Rules & Regulations for Designing Medical Devices
Faculty Industrial Design
Period 4
ECTS 3
ET4127 Themes in biomedical engineering
Faculty Faculty Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science
Period 3
ECTS 4
Admission requirements and application procedures
Admission is through the EIT Health CAMPUSwww.eithealth.eu/campus Go to the Training for Entrepreneurs & Innovators section, choose ‘shape’.
DeadlineApplications should be submitted before august 15
Applicants should have:• A bachelor’s degree in Engineering.• A minimum of 180 ECTS credits or
equivalent academic qualifications from an internationally recognized university (listed in the latest edition of the International handbook of universities).
Outstanding candidates from closely related disciplines may be considered as well.
EIT HealthThis program is part of the educational programs offered and supported by EIT Health. EIT Health promotes entrepreneurship and innovates in healthy living and active ageing, with the aim to improve quality of life and healthcare across Europe, with more than 130 leading organisations spanning key areas of healthcare such as Pharma, MedTech, Payers, Research Institutions and Universities.
For more information about EIT Health please visit http://eithealth.eu/
ContactName: Victor ScholtenEmail: [email protected]
Name: Puck van de BovenkampEmail: [email protected]