How do you get from a research idea to a startup-ready concept within your studies? With the Student Innovation Lab (SIL), KIT brings hands-on entrepreneurship directly into the master’s curriculum. Over nine months, student teams work on their own high-tech idea, explore real problems, validate their concept and turn it into a working prototype and a viable business model. Each team is paired with one of six dedicated tech labs, from Automation and Industry 4.0 to Conductive Materials and Medical Systems Engineering, and gets access to specialized equipment, makerspaces and the KIT nova co-working space.
The program runs over two semesters: in the winter term, teams explore and validate their ideas and define their startup concept; in the summer term, they prototype, test with users and develop their business model. Weekly seminars and a lecture series build entrepreneurial know-how, while EnTechnon coaches, technical mentors and industry partners support the teams along the way, up to the mid-term and final pitch. Startups such as DESOLTIK and LIFTWISE have already emerged from the program.
Key facs
- Start: every winter ter
- Duration: 2 semesters
- Credits: 15 ECTS (18 for economics
- For: master’s students in electrical, chemical and bio engineering, computer science, economics, mechatronics, industrial engineering & management, biomedical engineering and business informatics
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