Six team have successfully completed the 'Honours Degree in Digital Technology and Entrepreneurship' in 2019. The teams' business ideas cover a broad variety of ideas from a digital beehive, the use of neurofeedback to improve people’s mediation practice up to a hummus café.
Over a period of more than 9 months, the teams have been developing their business ideas.
The students attended intensive courses on customer market attractiveness, business model design, prototyping as well as negotiation. In addition to professional training, the third pillar of the programme is based on individual project-specific coaching of the teams by professors, lectures and experts from the industry.
On Friday, 18th October, the final pitch event took place. After welcoming words by the president, Prof. Dr. Carola Jungwirth, and Prof. Michael Granitzer, who is in charge of the prototyping module, the presentations of the business ideas were followed by a round of questions from a panel of experts. The committee consisted of Andreas Pfeifer as honorary professor and coach of future entrepreneurs, Martin Giese as startup coach and managing director of the Munich incubator XPRENEURS, Jens Mätzig as vice-president of the msg-company 'minosphere', Robert Richter as 'Head of Startup and Incubation' at WERK 1 in Munich and Rama Suleiman as representative of the Passau incubator INN.KUBATOR. At the end of the event, the students received their well-deserved certificates.