Your thesis at the Startup Centre: Building a scientific foundation for innovation
Thesis in forward-looking fields
The most important part of your degree is just around the corner: your final dissertation. But the crucial questions are: What is the right topic? And who can provide me with expert guidance?
If you’re not keen on dry theory but want to tackle topics that are right at the cutting edge, you’ve come to the right place. We’ll support you with your Bachelor’s and Master’s theses in forward-looking fields.
Possible areas of focus
You can write your thesis with us on a wide range of topics from the start-up ecosystem:
- Business start-ups & start-ups: business model innovation, scaling or market entry strategies.
- Creative industries: start-up projects in the fields of design, media and software development.
- Social entrepreneurship: sustainability (‘green start-ups’), social innovations and ethical entrepreneurship.
- Entrepreneurship education: How do you learn and teach entrepreneurial thinking?
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We support you as a second examiner
Whether you’ve already found a professor to act as your first supervisor or are still at the very beginning: we can support you as your second supervisor. We’ll provide you with valuable practical insights, help you refine your research question and, if needed, put you in touch with start-ups from our network for empirical surveys or case studies.
How to get started
Do you already have an initial idea, or would you like to know which topics are particularly exciting right now?
- Drop us a line: Send a no-obligation enquiry to gruendungszentrum@hdm-stuttgart.de
- Drop by: Visit us in person at Generator. We look forward to developing your ideas together with you.
Your benefit
A final-year dissertation in a start-up context is not just an academic achievement, but often a springboard to launching your own business or a career in the innovation departments of large companies.