Bachelor Thesis, Master Thesis, Project Study
📌 Key facts
Contents
- 💡 Background
- 🦾Who We Are
- 🎯 Goals
- 🧠Topics of Interest
- 🎓 Profile
- 📚 Further Reading
- 📄 Requirements to any Work
- 📬 How to Apply
💡 Background
London, Paris, Berlin - and Munich. Anyone who talks about the European startup landscape can no longer ignore the Bavarian capital. Munich's startup scene is flourishing and a large ecosystem has formed. Numerous Investors (VCs, CVCs and Business Angels) are an important part of this ecosystem. So are the various Accelerators and Incubators. But which of these institutions are the top players in their field? Which ones have the best track record? These questions should be dealt with in your thesis, in detail you should determine the top ten institutions in their respective fields based on self-generated criteria.
🦾Who We Are
The Chair for Strategy and Organization is focused on research with impact. This means we do not want to repeat old ideas and base our research solely on the research people did 10 years ago. Instead, we currently research topics that will shape the future. Topics such as Agile Organizations and Digital Disruption, Blockchain Technology, Creativity and Innovation, Digital Transformation and Business Model Innovation, Diversity, Education: Education Technology and Performance Management, HRTech, Leadership, and Teams. We are always early in noticing trends, technologies, strategies, and organizations that shape the future, which has its ups and downs.
🎯 Goals
- Do extensive desk and internet research analyzing Munich's startup landscape
- Define criteria to measure the success of the different players
- Classify the protagonists according to their activities and approaches
- Create an outline with the 10 best players from the areas of VC / CVC / Business Angels / Accelerators and Incubators
- Provide a brief overview for each of the top players (USP, affiliated startups, size, contact, ...)
- Visualize your results: Create a map of Munich on which the top players are marked
- You could further display your results in a mind map / organizational chart / Treemap (showing the market shares) / ...
- You might also determine best practices in each field
🧠Topics of Interest
- Munichs's startup ecosystem
- Venture Capital
- Characteristics and best practices of leading enterprises
- Entrepreneurial activities and innovations
🎓 Profile
- Reliable and self-driven
- Enthusiasm for entrepreneurship / accelerators / incubators / venture capital
- Ability to do sophisticated internet, desk research, and connect with practitioners
- Passionate to learn more about the future and do research with impact
📚 Further Reading
📄 Requirements to any Work
We do not want your research to gather dust in some corner of bookshelf but make it accessible to the world. Thus, we warmly encourage you to create some or all of the following:
- Infograph - visually represent some of your work (find examples here)
- Slide Deck - summarize your research and possibly present it
- Extract most important sequences from podcasts, videos, and other media
- 3-4 Tweets about the most important findings and summarizing the topic
- optional: Medium Article - let people outside the university know about your research and start your personal brand
📬 How to Apply
If you are interested, please contact Prof. Dr. Isabell Welpe (e-mail below) by submitting your CV and grade report. Please also briefly outline your tentative research idea (research question, data and methods, possible outcomes with a tentative outline all in word as *.docx)
We're greatly looking forward to hearing more about you!
👉 welpe@tum.de