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You want to learn how you can become an entrepreneur or get into the entrepreneurial mindset, but don't know where to even start? We are here to help you get onto the right track.

Embark on your entrepreneurial journey with precision! Whether you're a bachelor, master, doctoral student or scientist, our landing page is crafted to match your entrepreneurial talent level. Explore tailored offerings designed for those just starting out, providing the essential tools to nurture and develop your entrepreneurial skills. Find the perfect resources to kickstart your journey and pave the way for success. Your entrepreneurial adventure begins right here!

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For Bachelor Students

For Master Students

General

Think.Make.Start: Learn how to act and work like the most successful innovators, solve real problems and work with students from all over TUM and build new products in only two weeks using latest technology.
Entrepreneurial Prototyping: Learn how do generate, assess, and transform ideas into actual products or business models.
Innovation Sprint (Munich, Straubing): The Innovation Sprint (former Business Design Sprint) is a 5-day full time experience to learn hands-on basics of design thinking and business design.
Start-up Launchpad: Experience yourself as an entrepreneur. Develop your business idea with a design thinking approach. Learn how to write your first business plan, build a prototype, and pitch your idea as part of a cool team.
TUM Science Hackathon: In our first Science Hacks we tackled specific areas, including Sustainability, Human-centered Technology and Building A New Reality. In last year's Hack, we brought edge-cutting solutions in the topic of Trustworthy Systems.
EuroTeQ Collider: Develop an innovative mindset, gain industry experience, and connect with potential employers in this multidisciplinary format. Theme for 2026: Enhance Connections for Sustainable Futures.

Domain Focus

HackaTUM: hackaTUM is the official hackathon of the Department of Computer Science at the Technical University of Munich. It comprises of a massive three-day event, where highly motivated participants of various levels and backgrounds work on exciting, cutting-edge projects with a host of leading industry partners.
Intelligent Machine Design Lab: The I.MDL - Intelligent Machine Design Lab is part of a multi-semester course series, which aims to enable TUM master's students to develop and build complex and powerful mechatronic systems with high social and economic relevance.
Quantum Entrepreneurship Laboratory: You will work in groups on a topic from applied quantum research and learn to think like an entrepreneur.
Entrepreneurship & Digital Innovation Summer School (Heilbronn): Understand digital technologies and innovations, digital transformation in industry, and the key challenges of digital projects.
GeneNovate
iTEAMS
TUM IGL Innovation goes Life Sciences Competion
Architecture, Engineering, Construction, and Opearation (AECO) Hackathon
robo.innovate Hackathon
Praktikum Produktentwicklung

Sustainability Focus

Global Entrepreneurship Summer School: The Global Entrepreneurship Summer School supports young people in driving positive social change as future creators.
SEA MOOC: Social Entrepreneurship: In our MOOC "Social Entrepreneurship - from idea to implementation", we provide you with tips and tools in 5 modules on what social entrepreneurs should consider and what helps them to develop and implement innovative business models with impact.
Social Entrepreneurship Lab: Are you interested in advising a social business? Then our SEA:lab is just the thing for you. It’s a win-win concept – both for you and our social businesses.
Sustainable Energies and Entrepreneurship Summer School: Join us on a journey focused on renewable energy and entrepreneurship, aimed at achieving Sustainable Development Goals 7 and 13.
TUM Climate Ventures
Global Sustainability Challenge

Functional Skills

Legal & Tax Insights for Founders 2026
Smart Start: Founder Finance
How Digital Platforms Compete – Building and Sustaining CompetitiveAdvantage: Learn how to define, explain, and apply important theories about platforms and platform business models in practice.
Scaling Entrepreneurial Ventures: Learn the fundamental concepts of scaling a small startup into a large international company, define scaling strategies, and evaluate the scaling performance of startups.

Technical Skills

Digital Product School: You will receive intensive training in agile working methods and design thinking techniques. You will learn to evaluate user problems and test and iterate your solutions.
What's New about New Forms of Organizing - Adapting to the AI world: You will be introduced to selected organizational theories and discuss their relevance for the introduction of AI.
MakerSpace Courses: On an area of 1,500 m² in Garching (TUM Campus) and 1,200 m² in Munich (Munich Urban Colab), we offer high-quality machines, the latest CAD software, a competent crew and a large community of many creative and helpful people in our publicly accessible high-tech workshops, so that you can work on your project quickly, cost-effectively and in an appealing environment.
Quantum/Semicon Fellowship Program: Here you will learn everything you need to take on a leadership role in the quantum technology industry.
Student Tech Track (Heilbronn)
Entrepreneurial Engineer in the Construction Industry (UnternehmerIngenieur)

Transformative Skills

Change Makers: In this course you will be confronted with a future scenario. In an intensive week, work in small teams to create a real-life practical solution for a larger societal problem.
Principled Entrepreneurial Decisions: As taught at Stanford, learn from experienced founders from Flix, ProGlove, FERNRIDE, Luminovo, ReActive Robotics, 10x Founders, buecher.de, inveox, SevDesk, Konux etc. how to make game-changing decisions for your venture and yourself.
The Role of Nature in Modern Capitalism: What is impact, what is progress?
SEA MOOC: Enabling Entrepreneurs to Shape a Better World: Get equipped with the latest tools and social impact insights to develop your own entrepreneurial potential to solve the world's biggest problems.
SEA MOOC: Future Skills: The future is inside you. You just have to let it out of you. The MOOC "Future Skills" supports you in developing your future skills. It provides you with the right methods and content to achieve greater impact in your day-to-day work and become fit for the challenges of the future.
Venture Guide: This practical course offers real-world coaching experience that prepares participants to take on leadership roles in interdisciplinary and multicultural environments. Learn methods such as design thinking, lean start-up, and team coaching, and apply them in real-life innovation formats.

For Doctoral Students

Functional Skills

Legal & Tax Insights for Founders 2026
Realizing Biotech Innovations - Business Guide for Scientists (MOOC): Learn how the biotech industry works and how you can drive innovation in this environment, how to evaluate the potential of a new biotech product or service, and create a strategy to reach your vision, what to consider when setting up a biotech venture in terms of team strategy, financial strategy, and marketing strategy, how to navigate the challenges of IP management and regulatory affairs and how to evaluate different funding options and convince financial backers of your project.
Introduction into the World of Patent Law: Learn the basics of inventions, patents, and intellectual property rights, gain insights into the work of a patent attorney, and understand how technology transfer works at TUM.
Develop your entrepreneurial thinking

Technical Skills

MakerSpace Courses: On an area of 1,500 m² in Garching (TUM Campus) and 1,200 m² in Munich (Munich Urban Colab), we offer high-quality machines, the latest CAD software, a competent crew and a large community of many creative and helpful people in our publicly accessible high-tech workshops, so that you can work on your project quickly, cost-effectively and in an appealing environment.
TUM.Additive PhD Seminar

Transformative Skills

Leadership Talent Academy: Find your own personal, value-driven leadership style to shape organizations built on a culture of togetherness, trust, and powerful action.
Venture Guide: This practical course offers real-world coaching experience that prepares participants to take on leadership roles in interdisciplinary and multicultural environments. Learn methods such as design thinking, lean start-up, and team coaching, and apply them in real-life innovation formats.
SEA MOOC: Enabling Entrepreneurs to Shape a Better World: Get equipped with the latest tools and social impact insights to develop your own entrepreneurial potential to solve the world's biggest problems.
SEA MOOC: Future Skills: The future is inside you. You just have to let it out of you. The MOOC "Future Skills" supports you in developing your future skills. It provides you with the right methods and content to achieve greater impact in your day-to-day work and become fit for the challenges of the future.
Principled Entrepreneurial Decisions

For Young Professionals

Functional Skills

Realizing Biotech Innovations - Business Guide for Scientists (MOOC): Learn how the biotech industry works and how you can drive innovation in this environment, how to evaluate the potential of a new biotech product or service, and create a strategy to reach your vision, what to consider when setting up a biotech venture in terms of team strategy, financial strategy, and marketing strategy, how to navigate the challenges of IP management and regulatory affairs and how to evaluate different funding options and convince financial backers of your project.
Legal & Tax Insights for Founders 2026

Technical Skills

MakerSpace Courses: On an area of 1,500 m² in Garching (TUM Campus) and 1,200 m² in Munich (Munich Urban Colab), we offer high-quality machines, the latest CAD software, a competent crew and a large community of many creative and helpful people in our publicly accessible high-tech workshops, so that you can work on your project quickly, cost-effectively and in an appealing environment.
Digital Product School: You will receive intensive training in agile working methods and design thinking techniques. You will learn to evaluate user problems and test and iterate your solutions.

Transformative Skills

Leadership Talent Academy: Find your own personal, value-driven leadership style to shape organizations built on a culture of togetherness, trust, and powerful action.
SEA MOOC: Enabling Entrepreneurs to Shape a Better World: Get equipped with the latest tools and social impact insights to develop your own entrepreneurial potential to solve the world's biggest problems.
SEA MOOC: Future Skills: The future is inside you. You just have to let it out of you. The MOOC "Future Skills" supports you in developing your future skills. It provides you with the right methods and content to achieve greater impact in your day-to-day work and become fit for the challenges of the future.
Venture Guide

For Scientists with a Doctoral Degree

Functional Skills

Legal & Tax Insights for Founders 2026
Realizing Biotech Innovations - Business Guide for Scientists (MOOC): Learn how the biotech industry works and how you can drive innovation in this environment, how to evaluate the potential of a new biotech product or service, and create a strategy to reach your vision, what to consider when setting up a biotech venture in terms of team strategy, financial strategy, and marketing strategy, how to navigate the challenges of IP management and regulatory affairs and how to evaluate different funding options and convince financial backers of your project.

Technical Skills

MakerSpace Courses: On an area of 1,500 m² in Garching (TUM Campus) and 1,200 m² in Munich (Munich Urban Colab), we offer high-quality machines, the latest CAD software, a competent crew and a large community of many creative and helpful people in our publicly accessible high-tech workshops, so that you can work on your project quickly, cost-effectively and in an appealing environment.
TUM.Additive PhD Seminar

Transformative Skills

Leadership Talent Academy: Find your own personal, value-driven leadership style to shape organizations built on a culture of togetherness, trust, and powerful action.
SEA MOOC: Enabling Entrepreneurs to Shape a Better World: Get equipped with the latest tools and social impact insights to develop your own entrepreneurial potential to solve the world's biggest problems.
SEA MOOC: Future Skills: The future is inside you. You just have to let it out of you. The MOOC "Future Skills" supports you in developing your future skills. It provides you with the right methods and content to achieve greater impact in your day-to-day work and become fit for the challenges of the future.
Venture Guide
Principled Entrepreneurial Decisions