Minors

For the Bachelor's degree programme Technische Bestuurskunde (BSc TB), the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management offers seven different minors in the fields of entrepreneurship, safety & security, health and sustainability. These minors can be followed by students inside and outside TU Delft.

Below you will find an overview of the minors at the faculty:

TU Delft minors

Minor Responsible Innovation (LDE)

EC: 15 or 30 | Language: English | Non-Selection minor | Maximum participants: 30

Successful companies innovate and innovation can bring a lot of good to society, but it may harm as well. The challenge is to innovate in a responsible way: beneficial both to business and society. Then many stakeholders and many aspects have to be addressed so an interdisciplinary approach is needed. During this minor you will be introduced to the technical, managerial and socio-economic principles that govern innovation, and discuss ethical and other conditions for innovating responsibly.

Minor Technology-Based Entrepreneurship

EC: 30 | Language: English | Non-Selection minor | Maximum participants: 120

This minor prepares you for entrepreneurship in the broadest sense. Entrepreneurship is understood as entrepreneurial action and setting up new business within existing organizations and starting one's own company. ​​​​​​

Minor SDG-Based entrepreneurship for organizations - TU Delft

EC: 30 | Language: English | Selection minor | Maximum participants: 60

This action-based minor involves students in real, existing challenges that organizations face to address Sustainable Development Goals in the Netherlands and the province of South Holland in particular.

Minor MedTech-Based Entrepreneurship

EC: 30 | Language: English | Non-Selection minor | Maximum participants: 40

MedTech continues to be a relevant high growth, high impact sector. The world needs an untold number of healthcare solutions at many levels and markets for the foreseeable future. Plus, with the CV19 burden, other areas of medicine must become an order of magnitude more efficient.

Minor Companies and Value-Sensitive Innovation

EC: 30 | Language: English | Non-Selection minor | Maximum participants: 60

The Minor ‘Companies and Value-Sensitive Innovation’ focuses on new (high-technology) product innovations within established companies, i.e. regular R&D, as well as internal venturing or corporate entrepreneurship, by examining their potential values from diverse aspects such as finance, (innovation) management, strategy, ethics, safety and risk.

Minor Frugal Innovation for Sustainable Global Development

EC: 30 | Language: English | Non-Selection minor | Maximum participants: 40

Are you interested to learn more about frontier innovation thinking and practices? The LDE minor Frugal Innovation for Sustainable Global Development offers in-depth insight into how and under which conditions frugal innovation can be accomplished and contribute to sustainable global development.

Minor International Entrepreneurship & Development - TU Delft

EC: 30 | Language: English | Selection minor | Maximum participants: 60

How to manage and work on a technology-related project in a different cultural and institutional setting? This minor program allow you to work abroad to develop technical solutions for complex challenges that will contribute to socioeconomic development.

Minor Public Risk and Disaster (LD)

EC: 30 | Language: English | Non-Selection minor | Maximum participants: 60

The world’s population increasingly has to deal with risks related to these ever-evolving challenges. How humanity as a whole prepares for, responds to, and manages these grand challenges is crucial for the world’s future. In this minor, you will explore and unravel these grand challenges, and look for possible ways forward.

Share this page: