Stabsstelle Career Center & Wissenschaftliche Weiterbildung

Instructors: Manouchehr Shamsrizi, André Nikolski, Anett Lommatzsch, Markus Krutzik

Credit points: 5, not marked

This project-based course aims at bringing together students from various areas who want to join the quantum & deeptech revolution. The Challenge: Transform a specific applied research problem into a commercially relevant research project, ultimately pitching it in front of a panel of quantum academic and industry partners. Throughout the semester, you will dig deep into quantum technologies, while learning to think like an entrepreneur. You’ll receive subject matter lectures by our academic partners and receive business coaching by experienced mentors and coaches.

Target audience

The Innovation Lab is aimed at master's students and above from all fields with a strong interest in digital and quantum technologies who want to build innovation competencies through practical guidance. You do not have to bring your own research project, but you can do so. Real projects will be provided. Official language of the course is English.

Structure and Content

This course is the first of a total of two separate modules and is set up as follows:

1. Ideation:
   Participants will be given ideas that are considered industry-relevant research topics. In groups, you will then be guided through an innovation process to develop user-centered products as business ideas. At the same time, you will receive lectures on research related topics that are being actively worked on by our academic partners.
2. Pitch Day:
   Your interdisciplinary team will work towards the pitch. This phase requires you to analyze your business idea for technical gaps and test your ability to describe the idea precisely and concisely and in a way that is understandable to a wide audience.
3. Final Deliverables Phase & Course Reflection:
   As a team, you describe your research work during the semester in a technical paper. You will reflect on whether the results can be published as a paper and/or should be further developed towards a startup prototype and business case, in module II in the summer semester 2025.

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The toolbox taught in the Entrepreneurship Lab includes:

• innovation process with Design Thinking
• mindset methods
• agile and classic project management
• creativity and management techniques such as Ishikawa and LEGO? SERIOUS PLAY?

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Prospects

The second module is scheduled for the summer semester 2025. Then, the business ideas developed here will be transformed into commercial business cases. If you also take part in module II, you’ll have the opportunity to continue working in an interdisciplinary team on finding commercial applications for your research and build a prototype quantum-based startup.

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It is not mandatory to take part in both modules. For each module you receive 5 credit points.

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Credits

To earn credits, the following is required:

• Regular active participation & teamwork on the project task
• Writing a reflection on the learning process (individual work),
• Creating a project paper (team effort) on the developed solution

This course is funded by the Masterplan Industriestadt Berlin (HU Innovation Labs) and supported by BERLIN QUANTUM, a joint initiative by Berlin's business community, research institutions and universities that aims to make Berlin an international hotspot for the research and development of quantum technologies.

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Law students: Please refer to the website for information on Career Center courses recognized for the BZQ I module for legal education: https://www.rewi.hu-berlin.de/de/sp/2015/anerkennungen/sq

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