The chair focuses on entrepreneurship and financing. The focus is on entrepreneurial finance as the interface between these two areas. Particular emphasis is placed on start-ups and growth companies. In teaching, the chair provides well-founded insights into the theory and practice of entrepreneurship and financing. The teaching programme enables students to recognise and evaluate forms of financing for owner-dominated companies, to build up and apply basic knowledge in empirical finance research and to develop general business problem-solving skills. In particular, students learn the essential steps required to start a business.