Sustainable Entrepreneurship

Foundations of Sustainable Entrepreneurship provides a broad introduction to entrepreneurship and its sustainable counterparts. You explore key theories, examine global entrepreneurship data, and reflect on how entrepreneurial activity contributes to societal and environmental goals. By combining academic debates with hands-on data analysis, you learn how to interpret and assess real-world entrepreneurship trends while developing your reflective and analytical skills.

Leadership focuses on developing your capacity to lead meaningful change. You study leadership theories through interactive debates and apply insights about personality, strengths, and collaboration to team-based challenges. Through personal reflection and peer learning, you begin shaping your own vision and practice as a sustainable leader.

Strategy develops your ability to think and act strategically in complex sustainability contexts. Through studying recent academic insights on strategic management and a practical business model development project, you learn to navigate the tensions between economic, environmental, and social objectives as a business leader and to make informed strategic choices that balance them effectively.

Context examines how entrepreneurs and their ventures interact with their surroundings, from local ecosystems to global institutions. You learn how context shapes opportunities for change, and how entrepreneurs can act as catalysts within broader transitions. Through case study work, you develop qualitative research skills and an understanding of how sustainable entrepreneurship is embedded in complex socio-economic systems, and how it can also shape them.

Organisation explores how existing organisations can transition towards sustainability. You analyse organisational behaviour, change processes, and the role of culture, governance, and leadership in enabling transformation. By applying these insights to real company cases, you learn to identify leverage points for change and design feasible pathways for sustainability transitions.

Research Design deepens your understanding of how to design and evaluate academic research. You study research approaches, methodologies, and ethics, while developing your own research proposal under supervision. The course strengthens your ability to translate broad sustainability challenges into focused, researchable questions.

New Economic Realities challenges conventional economic thinking by introducing alternative visions of prosperity that prioritise well-being and ecological balance. You critically assess contemporary debates on post-growth, circularity, and regenerative economic design, and reflect on what these mean for entrepreneurs and policymakers.

Performance addresses the question of how to define and evaluate success in sustainable business. You explore the conceptual and methodological challenges of measuring social and environmental impact and learn to critically assess different approaches to evaluating organisational performance. Through case-based work, you apply these insights to assess how organisations demonstrate accountability and create multi-dimensional value.

Policy examines the role of public policy in enabling or constraining sustainable entrepreneurship. You study policy processes and governance dynamics, analyse real-world sustainability policies, and develop recommendations for improvement. This experience helps you understand how entrepreneurs, policymakers, and institutions can co-shape the conditions for sustainable innovation.

The Sustainable Entrepreneurship Project (SEP) is your master's thesis and practical capstone. You independently design and conduct empirical research on a sustainability challenge, often in collaboration with a company, NGO, or public organisation. Throughout the process, you collect and analyse data, interpret and communicate your insights effectively, and translate them into clear recommendations for practice.