Teaching
Prof. Fisch is deeply involved in SnT's Interdisciplinary Space Master (ISM) (https://ism.uni.lu/), in which he teaches courses that cover essential topics of business, innovation management, and entrepreneurship. EINT's current courses are summarized below.
Space Business
Program: Interdisciplinary Space Master (Semester 2, 4 ECTS)
Executive summary: The course provides a bird's-eye view on important fundamentals of business and applies them to the domain of space. Specifically, the course covers a selection of essential topics and tools for understanding and critically assessing how businesses create, deliver, and capture value.
Topics covered:
- Basics: creating value, business models, strategy
- Innovation: disruptive innovation, platforms, intellectual property rights, appropriation, open innovation:
- Marketing: segmentation, positioning, 4Ps
- Finance: fundamentals
Structure: The course combines interactive lectures with case studies. While the lectures introduce important business topics and tools, the case studies seek to apply this knowledge to real-world examples from the space sector
Entrepreneurship
Program: Interdisciplinary Space Master (Semester 3, 4 ECTS)
Executive summary: The course provides a bird's-eye view on important fundamentals of entrepreneurship. Specifically, the course covers a selection of essential topics and tools for understanding and critically assessing how to develop a business idea, move from an idea to an entrepreneurial firm, as well as grow and exit an entrepreneurial firm.
Topics covered:
- Entrepreneurship in general
- Entrepreneurial personalities
- Business planning
- Lean startup
- Design thinking
- Entrepreneurial marketing
- Entrepreneurial finance
- Entrepreneurial growth
- Entrepreneurial exit
- Select types of entrepreneurship (e.g., social entrepreneurship)
Structure: The course features interactive lectures and case studies, in which students will apply the concepts of the lecture to real business cases, preferably from the space sector.
Practical Aspects of Entrepreneurship
Program: Interdisciplinary Space Master (Semester 3, 3 ECTS)
Executive summary: This course provides a practice-oriented take on entrepreneurship. Specifically, the course covers the application of essential tools for understanding and critically assessing how to discover, develop and exploit entrepreneurial opportunities. You will apply these tools to develop an entrepreneurial idea into a fully-fledged, ready-to-go business model that is resilient.
Topics covered:
- Market opportunity navigator
- External analysis (PESTLE, blue ocean, …)
- Value proposition canvas
- Business model canvas
- Entrepreneurial pitching
Structure: The course combines interactive lectures with course work and presentations. The lectures introduce important entrepreneurship tools, which you will then apply to real-world examples. The coursework sessions allow you to apply these tools and work on your assignments. The presentations serve as the basis for a critical in-depth discussion. The ultimate session features pitching in front of real investors
