Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Europe

About this course

This course runs like a startup incubator, not a classroom. In teams, you build startups around real customer problems. You test your assumptions with interviews, surveys, landing pages and prototypes. Most first ideas won’t survive contact with customers–that’s the point. You iterate and pivot until you have something worth presenting. Along the way, you learn Lean Startup, Business Model Canvas and MVP approaches, guided by mentors and Copenhagen founders who share how they did it.

At the end, you pitch to industry experts who judge you as founders, not students. It’s hands-on and demanding, but building something real makes it worth it.

Faculty

Mikael Fuhr

Architect and Industrial Designer (Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, 1987). +20 years of experience in design management, innovation, communication and leadership. Design manager and project manager in DSB – Danish State Railways, 1998-1999, Head of Design Vision Lab in DSB, Director of Design in DSB, Founding Partner in FUHR, 2011. With DIS since 2013.