Corporate Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Special Courses

Course description

Please note that this course does not count as Special Courses within the CGDE! Therefore, it is not certain that this course are recognized at your institution for your PhD curriculum.

Lecturer

Prof. Dr. Matthias Menter (FSU Jena)

Course Outline

Corporate entrepreneurship is essential for today’s firms and currently a topic of considerable interest within the business community. To succeed in the long term, incumbent firms must steadily develop new ideas and strategies. Therefore, those firms must anticipate opportunities for entering new markets and generate innovations faster than their best competitors. This is exactly where corporate entrepreneurship comes into play. The aim of the course is to examine the antecedents and consequences of corporate entrepreneurship. Students will learn the theories, principles, concepts, and practices of entrepreneurial development within organizations. A specific focus will thereby be put on corporate governance mechanisms, the role and influence of market and institutional mechanisms, and future developments within the field.

Suggested Schedule

October 14, 2025: 14:00 – 18:00 à Part 1 + 2
October 21, 2025: 14:00 – 18:00 à Part 3 + 4
December 9, 2025: 14:00 – 18:00 à Part 5

Contents

Part 1:    Corporate Entrepreneurship: An introduction
Part 2:    Corporate Governance in Entrepreneurial Contexts
Part 3:    The Legitimacy of Corporate Entrepreneurship
Part 4:    The Impact of Corporate Entrepreneurship
Part 5:    Student presentation + paper on selected topics

Venue

will be announced

Registration

Please register for the course by September 28, 2025 by sending an e-mail to susanne.buechner@uni-jena.de.

Course details