Program Overview

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CM2008 Entrepreneurship in Technology and Health

The course CM2008 Entrepreneurship in Technology and Health provides students with key concepts and methods for developing entrepreneurial skills in the field of health and medical technology. Innovative technologies for health and well-being need to be customer-centric and commercialized to reach the market.

Course Content

The course content is divided into three sections:

• Marketing and consumer behaviour
• Business and innovation
• Sustainable development of innovative technologies

Students will learn key concepts of consumer behaviour and culture, market and need analysis, competitor and distribution analysis, pricing, and sustainable development. Students will learn how to apply business models and commercialization strategies, conduct alpha-beta pilot tests, and develop a financial plan.

Course Objectives

The course provides conceptual aspects to entrepreneurship in organizational contexts and in digital platforms, and regulatory aspects to innovative technologies such as sustainable development, basic intellectual property rights, and procurement policy. As a final assignment, students will develop their own business plan for an innovative technology for health and well-being.

Information per Course Offering

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Autumn 2026 Start

• Course location: KTH Flemingsberg
• Duration: 24 Aug 2026 - 23 Oct 2026
• Periods: Autumn 2026: P1 (7.5 hp)
• Pace of study: 50%
• Application code: 10241
• Form of study: Normal Daytime
• Language of instruction: English

Contact

• Examiner: Sanna Kuoppamäki
• Course coordinator: Sanna Kuoppamäki
• Teachers: Tien-Ying Lu, Jonas Willén, Peter Sillén, Kyle Mudge, Lucy McCarren

Course Syllabus

Please note: all information from the Course syllabus is available on this page in an accessible format.

Content and Learning Outcomes

Course Disposition

The course literature includes entrepreneurship.

Course Contents

• Innovation
  • Alpha-Beta-Pilot test
• Marketing
  • Needs Analysis
  • Distribution Solution
  • Competition Analysis
  • Pricing
  • Sustainable development
• Business
  • Business models and commercialization
  • Strategy and business logic
• Entrepreneurship leadership and organization
  • Interaction between key players
  • Organizational dynamics
  • Set Objectives and Key results
• Regulations
  • Basic intellectual property rights
  • Procurement Policy
  • Sustainable development

Lectures, exercises, and seminars are included in the course.

Intended Learning Outcomes

After completing the course, the student should demonstrate proficiency in:

• Value innovation and business concept development
• Analyzing needs, market, and pricing
• Analyzing competitors, stakeholders, and distribution solutions
• Evaluating fundamental intellectual property rights for a business concept
• Explaining relevant aspects of sustainable development
• Explaining procurement and interaction between private and public actors
• Evaluating strategies and business models for commercialization
• Applying entrepreneurial leadership by involving potential customers, partners, or suppliers in business concept development
• Developing business communication by presenting ideas in the public domain
• Creating a business plan including conduct of alpha-beta and pilot tests and a financial plan

Literature and Preparations

Specific Prerequisites

• Completed degree project of 15 credits
• Basic course in industrial economics of 6 credits
• English B/English 6

Literature

You can find information about course literature either in the course memo for the course offering or in the course room in Canvas.

Examination and Completion

Grading Scale

A, B, C, D, E, FX, F

Examination

• RED1 - Oral and written presentation, 1.5 credits, grading scale: P, F
• RED2 - Oral and written presentation, 1.5 credits, grading scale: P, F
• LAB1 - Laboratory work, 1.0 credits, grading scale: P, F
• PRO2 - Project, 3.5 credits, grading scale: A, B, C, D, E, FX, F

Based on recommendation from KTH's coordinator for disabilities, the examiner will decide how to adapt an examination for students with documented disability.

The examiner may apply another examination format when re-examining individual students.

If the course is discontinued, students may request to be examined during the following two academic years.

Examiner

Sanna Kuoppamäki

Ethical Approach

• All members of a group are responsible for the group's work.
• In any assessment, every student shall honestly disclose any help received and sources used.
• In an oral assessment, every student shall be able to present and answer questions about the entire assignment and solution.

Further Information

Course Room in Canvas

Registered students find further information about the implementation of the course in the course room in Canvas.

Offered by

CBH/Biomedical Engineering and Health Systems

Main Field of Study

Technology and Health

Education Cycle

Second cycle