Today's economy demands individuals with entrepreneurial skills who can identify opportunities, take initiative, and solve problems creatively. This programme aims to develop future leaders of change who will not only lead large global corporations and organisations but also create and expand innovative ventures that deliver value by addressing customer and societal issues in sustainable, non-traditional ways.
The master's programme in Technology-based Entrepreneurship provides you with the frameworks and skills to develop companies in a dynamic global business environment. The programme equips you with a specialist understanding of technology-based entrepreneurial management. It's about designing the systems and organisations that create, capture, and deliver value-based products and services. The programme focuses on entrepreneurship, innovation and venturing within a predominantly technical context. You will understand the dynamics of innovation and entrepreneurship through advanced-level academic courses in entrepreneurial business and management, focusing on the specific technological and business conditions within selected technology application areas (for example, ICT, life sciences, manufacturing, and services). Challenges and opportunities in essential aspects such as sustainability, globalisation, and diversity are discussed throughout the programme.
This programme is particularly suited to students with an engineering or technical background who want to complement their technical expertise with the commercial and managerial capabilities needed to bring innovations to market. Whether you want to commercialise your own innovation, lead corporate venture initiatives, or support the development of technology-based businesses, you will learn to connect technical possibilities with customer needs, market opportunities and viable business models. The programme prepares you for careers in corporate venturing, venture capital, technology development and commercialisation, product and project management, start-up leadership, and other management roles.
The programme has an international panel of professors and experts who advise the programme leadership on content issues and provide control and external validation regarding the field and final master's degree projects. Additionally, Sweden is a leading nation in technology and innovation, and this programme is developed in close collaboration with the Technology Entrepreneurship Lab at KTH, providing significant opportunities for students.
This is a two-year programme (120 ECTS credits) in English. Graduates are awarded the Master of Science degree. The School of Industrial Engineering and Management (at KTH) offers the programme mainly at the KTH Campus in Stockholm.
Program structure and progression
During the first semester, you will gain fundamental knowledge about entrepreneurship, finding challenges, and capturing and developing ideas to solve problems. In the second semester, you will learn how to execute and grow a company.
The second year starts with a course in research methodology and a field project focusing on challenge-based entrepreneurship, which will allow you to work closely on a more practical project within the Stockholm entrepreneurship ecosystem. During the final semester, you will conduct a master's degree project.
Courses in the programme
Courses in the master's programme in Technology-based Entrepreneurship
Meet students from the programme
"KTH has made me more open, independent, and confident, and it has encouraged me to think more seriously about the kind of future I want to build."
Gabriella from Indonesia
"What truly sets this programme apart is its practical focus, with opportunities to work with startups in group projects and mentorship to develop your own ideas."
Vaibhavi from India