Sustainable Innovation & Entrepreneurship

Language:	English
Location:	Munich
Duration:	3 days
Start:	February 2026
Cost:	3,290 EUR
ECTS:	5

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The course Sustainable Innovation & Entrepreneurship addresses corporate innovation and entrepreneurship in response to evolving geopolitical, economic, environmental, technological, and societal realities, emphasizing the necessity for sustainable management approaches. The course aims to equip you with a deep understanding of increasingly multi-faceted global success factors and threats for corporate innovation strategies in an ever-changing environment.

The program focuses on two critical influencing success factors:

Integrating new disruptive technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Quantum Technology, and Robotics in daily business.

Develop innovation strategies based on sustainability concepts.

Both factors have shown their extensive potential to enhance the prospect of success of corporate innovation practices. Moreover, Sustainable Innovation & Entrepreneurship delves into the composition of effective entrepreneurial teams, focusing on talent identification and cultivating a working culture conducive to transforming promising ideas into business success. In a “Sustainable Innovation Project,” you will have the chance to work on a real innovation challenge. You will be supported by a professional innovation coach for several weeks and get feedback on your results from an expert jury.

5 ECTS credits possible: The certificate program is eligible as an elective for our Executive MBA students if you do both the module and the project work with coaching session.

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Benefits

Shape the future sustainably with innovation and entrepreneurial thinking.

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Entrepreneurial Thinking

Slip into the role of an entrepreneur yourself, work in entrepreneurial teams and learn how to think and act like one.

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Innovate Sustainbly Now

Profit from a direct learning transfer and impact on your business practice by working on your own sustainable innovation challenge or on a real innovation project from third-party companies.

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Expert Advice & Feedback

Benefit from experienced innovation coaches providing you with individual advice and get feedback from an expert jury.

Program Overview

You can find all the important information about the certificate program here. Below you can find out the objectives of the program, the exact details of the process, what you will learn and which lecturers will teach you the content.

Learning Objective
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After the course, you will

understand how new technologies can contribute to sustainable innovation and entrepreneurship to generate economic and social value,
understand the intimate connections between different business models and implementation strategies, whether as Entrepreneur or Intrapreneur,
be able to evaluate the chances and risks of business ideas in a global environment, taking into account all aspects including financials,
be capable to derive comprehensive, feasible, yet sustainable, future-oriented corporate innovation agendas based on critical influencing success factors like new disruptive technologies, new global ecological, political, social and economic upheavals,
qualify in composing high performing innovation teams and be equipped with appropriate tools and methods to lead entrepreneurial teams and solve conflicts in critical situations,
be able to use tools for entrepreneurial thinking to succeed even in a dynamic environment.

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Program:

Sustainable Innovation & Entrepreneurship

Target group:

The program is designed for professionals from mid-sized to large corporations who wish to strengthen and improve their entrepreneurial activities with a sustainable management approach; and therefore need future-oriented evaluation frameworks to either improve their existing innovation strategies or develop new ones. Furthermore participants should be interested in diving deeper into thinking and acting like an entrepreneur.

Academic responsibility:

Prof. Dr. Nicola Breugst, TUM School of Management

Format & Timing:

On Site, Munich + Project Work, 3 days

Study location:

Munich

Language:

English

Date:

February 2026, on-site
Coaching Sessions and final presentations online

Application deadline:

December 2025

Admission requirements:

You should bring a minimum of three years of professional working experience, along with expertise in innovation management. Additionally, you should be willing to tackle a current challenge from your current work environment. Participation fees: You should bring a minimum of three years of professional working experience, along with expertise in innovation management. Additionally, you should be willing to tackle a current challenge from your current work environment.

Graduation:

After successful completion of the final exam, participants will receive a certificate from the Technical University of Munich.

ECTS:

5 ECTS

Program fees:

Seminar (on campus): 3,290 EUR
Project work with personalized coaching extension (online): 500 EUR
If you book the seminar and extension from the beginning, the whole program will cost you 3,490 EUR.*

Discounts:

10% discount for TUM Alumni

*Based on our experience, the German tax benefits help many participants self-finance their education, as these can be worth up to 50% of tuition fees and program-related travel costs. Please consult your tax advisor for more details. For participants of our programs residing outside Germany this might be applicable, please check the situation with the local tax authorities in your country of residence.

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