Students will be assigned to teams of 4 people representing both universities. They work on a joint research project in the area of Entrepreneurship and Leadership. They choose two start-up companies, one based in Germany and one based in the US and examine the different perspectives on leadership and entrepreneurship in both countries. They present their findings in a 10 minutes video recorded presentation in which each team member participates.

Throughout the teamwork phase, teams hold Zoom meetings to plan how to research their topic. They hold check-in meetings with their instructors to discuss initial findings and aspect of their topic they want to study in greater detail. They also get organizational assistance from the TAVEC administrative team.

Startup Ecosystems are a global trend, but they differ in international comparison. While in the Anglo-American area the focus is on the personality of the founders, in the German-speaking area, start-up research tends to focus on the investigation of the entrepreneurial idea and its implementation within the business model.

Student groups will examine these differences in German and US perspectives on entrepreneurship and further analyze and interpret the importance and role of leadership personalities in company start-ups. Student groups work together to better understand the two different perspectives and then apply those perspectives in their research area. In particular, the study focuses on recent findings in the field of digital leadership, which examines how the growing digitization is being taken into account in the development of leadership personalities.

Our Digital Entrepreneurship instructor Prof. Dr. Richard Geibel from Hochschule Fresenius and our Leadership instructor Frank Gallucci from Adelphi University were interviewed by TAVEC Project Assistants Pirneeta Bhambhani and Christoph Neu to talk about their projects expectations as well as student perspectives and their academic experience. They outline the virtual medium of the project and share thoughts and ideas on trans-atlantic collaboration and future projects.