The Masters Thesis at MPBDP - TECH track - is delivered using a learning through venture creation pedagogy, provided in collaboration with Chalmers Ventures. To achieve the Masters Thesis through this design, you need to be an active member of an assigned team with a dedicated venture(s). The venture/team serve as the main object to which the tools and skills are applied, and the entrepreneurial experience facilitated through the venturing process develops the critical thinking, scientific and personal logic/mental modelling.

Being part of the TECH track means that you have parallel responsibilities. There is an expectation that you deliver academically acceptable work to receive higher education credits. In order to have something to write about, you need to be actively engaged in progressing the venture(s), either towards incorporation, pivoting, or invalidating the basis of the venture and starting a new venture. If nothing happens in the venture/team there is no basis for learning. All your efforts and activities (academic and practical) are therefore interdependent.

The one-year 60 cr Masters Thesis (TECH track) includes learning outcomes around the following areas:

Independent Study (IND)

Entrepreneurial Mindset and Teamwork Study (EMT)

Entrepreneurial Sales Study (ES)

Technology and Product Development Study (TPD)

Venture Planning and Execution (VPE)

*Reflection & Feedback

Developing competences in these areas requires activities and deliverables that allow you to demonstrate sufficient knowledge, skills and perspective, which are described more specifically in the CoursePM. Your learning outcomes are demonstrated through a compiled 60cr Masters Thesis, including the IND positioned as the main text, and EMT, TPD and ES as appended studies. The VPE associated deliveries are not integrated into the thesis but are iteratively used in interaction with boards, Chalmers Ventures and the idea partner (when/where appropriate). The compiled thesis also includes an executive summary to explain the integration/complementarity of the studies, and the context in which they are performed; and if desired can also articulate insights from the VPE module. For the Interim and Final Compiled Thesis, delivery is contingent upon submission (and in certain cases pre-approval) of items from the EMT, ES, TPD studies and IND as the main text. 

NB: This is a summary, the full Course PM is found in Files - GEN.