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What is opportunity recognition

To become an opportunity, an idea needs to be evaluated and acted upon. To become a business opportunity, your idea needs to have a potential economic value: It needs to …

What is Lean Startup?

Lean Startup became popular with Eric Ries’ book, but it also has earlier intellectual roots. Ries mentioned Frederick Taylor, whose scientific management emphasized the use of scientifically generated insights to …

Introduction to the week

In this week we will introduce you to the basics of entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship can be defined as the pursuit of opportunities without regard to resources currently controlled. We use the …

Meet our educators

In the coming 3 weeks you will meet several experts from the University of Twente’s department for Entrepreneurship, Strategy & Innovation Management (NIKOS-ESIM). We are also very pleased that several …

Introduction to the course and educators.

Thanks for joining this course on entrepreneurship! Before we delve into some interesting and relevant facts about the entrepreneurial process, we will introduce you to the structure of the course. …