• Foundations of Entrepreneurship and Family Firm Research
• New venture creation
• SME management
• Entrepreneurial orientation
• Entrepreneurial mindset
• Opportunity recognition
• Exploration vs. exploitation
• Building Blocks of "Corporate Entrepreneurship" (definitions, general frameworks, differences between Corporate Entrepreneurship and Start-Up Entrepreneurship, process of Corporate Entrepreneurship, forms of Corporate Entrepreneurship)
• Entrepreneurial behavior in family firms

Enrollment from WS23/24
These admission requirements:

• To register for modules in the specialization, the modules Statistics, Business Mathematics, and English I must have been successfully completed.
• In addition, the module Strategic Management must have been successfully completed in order to register for the IME specialization.

Enrollment before WS23/24
Either the above admission requirements or:

• To register for modules in the specialization, modules worth at least 45 ECTS credits from the first year of study and the module English I must have been successfully completed.
• Elective courses are not taken into account at all for these regulations.

Deep Learning and Advanced AI Techniques cover the basics of deep learning and advanced AI techniques and recent technological trends. It also includes a few aspects of generative AI. The course covers:

• Fundamentals of artificial intelligence
• Reinforcement learning – Learning to play games and beyond
• Fundamentals of deep learning, network design, and training
• Transfer learning and pre-trained models
• Data augmentation and synthesis
• Core ideas of: Graph Neural Networks, Autoencoders, Generative adversarial networks (GANs), recurrent neural networks, convolutional neural networks, diffusion models
• Explainability and interpretability in AI
• Case studies and applications in various industries and for various tasks
• Recent trends and future directions in AI and deep learning

• The course involves interactive lectures with exercises to integrate theoretical knowledge with practical design and analysis skills.

After successful completion of the course, students will

Professional competence
• understand the basic concepts and methods of artificial intelligence and deep learning
• be able to identify suitable applications for artificial intelligence and deep learning
• understand key concerns in adopting and leveraging artificial intelligence

Methodological competence
• select, use, and adjust existing models and methods for a given task or data set

Personal competence
• critically reflect on analytical outcomes
• be able to improve and mitigate self-inflicted errors

Technological competence
•be able to use a deep learning framework such as Keras

• Russell, S., & Norvig, P. (2021). Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (4th ed.). Harlow, UK: Pearson.
• Bishop, C. M. (2024). Deep Learning Foundations and Concepts. Springer.
• Goodfellow, I., Bengio, Y., & Courville, A. (2016). Deep Learning. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

Written exam

Business Planning

• Bedeutung, Einsatzbereich und Spezifika des Business Plannings.
• Prozess und Vorgehen beim Erstellen eines Businessplan.
• Ziele des Business Plannings.
• Aufbau und Struktur eines Businessplan.
• Informationsgrundlagen des Business Plannings.
• Zentrale Anforderungen an ein Businessplan.

o Marktstrategie und Umsetzung in ein Marketingkonzept.
o Herausforderungen der Finanzierung (Finanzierungsphasen, Finanzierungsquellen, Finanzierungsprozesse und Instrumente).

• Beziehungsmanagement (Erfolgsfaktoren, Konzepte, Umsetzung).
• Implementierung und Kontrolle.

Produkt und Prototyp

• Veranschaulichung von Methoden und Instrumenten um ein Produktdesign zu erstellen.
• Entwicklung, Testung und Einholung von Kundenfeedback zum Prototyp bzw. Produkt.

Pitchdeck/Pitching & Story Telling

• Gliederung, Gestaltung und inhaltliche Ausarbeitung eines Pitchdecks.
• Vertiefung von Rhetorik- und Präsentationskompetenzen.

Erfolgreicher Abschluss des Moduls "Startup Lab 1"

Advanced ISD project is a course wherein students must put their pre-acquired knowledge (in the Information Systems Development and Web-based Information Systems) into practice. After providing a brief introduction on some web frameworks and on API, students are meant to work in groups to develop a Web-based Information System.

• Two lectures at the beginning of the course will cover some basic concepts of Web development (in Py-thon)
• Most of the work is meant to be done by groups of 2-5 students

After successful completion of the course, students will

Professional competence
• Learn how to leverage existing frameworks to develop a web-based Information System
• Learn how to develop “original” Information Systems
• Learn how to work in groups to develop an Information System
• Learn how to document self-developed source code of an Information System

Methodological competence
• have the capability of developing and deploying functional web-applications
• have the capability of debugging self-produced pieces of software code

Social competence
• have the capability of working in groups with a common goal

Personal competence
• have the capability of autonomously troubleshooting the problems occurring in the most common IT op-erations
• have the capability of autonomously searching for the relevant information required to accomplish a given task

Technological competence
• have the capability of using popular web-development frameworks (e.g., Flask, Django)
• have the capability of leveraging public API

• Students are provided with the lecture slides and supplementary material (e.g., selected journal articles).
• “Rest API Design Rulebook”, Mark Masse.

Project results (80%), presentations (20%); Attendance is mandatory (80%)

Vernacular Architecture introduces the traditional typologies of housing, agriculture, crafts and trade around the globe. Adapted to climate, natural resources and cultural conditions, these vanishing building cultures offer truly sustainable clues to our crucial question: How to build and how to live sustainably again? The seminar explores projects to understand the complex simplicity of buildings made from purely natural materials.

The module involves interactive lectures with exercises to integrate theoretical knowledge with critical analysis skills. Case studies are used to discuss the course contents. Recent scientific publications from Sustainable Design and vernacular architecture are examined in class.

After successful completion of the course, students will be able to

Relevant reading will be made available at the beginning of the course. A list of recommended literature will be announced in the course and updated on an ongoing basis.

Minimum 75% compulsory attendance and continuous assessment.
The final grade is calculated according to the weighting of the following components: final submission (80%) and active participation (20%).

The sustainable operation within a complex architectural or urban environment is critically analysed and applied. The Bachelor’s Thesis students take part in one of the Advanced Studios within the Bachelor´s degree programme. The thesis includes a developed hypothesis which is verified (or falsified) within the context of a design project.

Guided project work in the design studio. A seminar week focussing on the studio topic is an integral part of the design studio.

After successful completion of the course, students will be able to

Relevant reading will be made available at the beginning of the course. A list of recommended literature will be announced in the course and updated on an ongoing basis.

Successful completion of all four foundation studios and one Advanced Studio within the Bachelor's degree programme.

Minimum 75% compulsory attendance, continuous assessment, midterm and final reviews.
The final grade is calculated according to the weighting of the following components: design project (60%), final presentation (20%) and thesis book (20%).

The Bachelor's Thesis comprises the design and production of the Bachelor's thesis book, in which the entire research and design process of the design project is documented. The formal aspects of the Bachelor's Thesis are described in the Bachelor's Thesis regulations. The thesis book can be written in German or English.

This elective course addresses the most sustainable concept of our economic activity: the non-production of new things. It focuses on the urgency and rediscovery of a culture of care, repair, reparability and upcycling to critically question the way we design, build and use our constructed environment. It combines methods from restoration and conservation with new ideas from a growing repair community. Using broken objects, each student will first identify, analyse and discuss the defect(s). After developing a repair concept, a complete restoration is to be realised under professional guidance. The aim is to come up with a coherent and consistent repair solution which, in the best case, will result in a technical and/or design improvement to the object.

The seminar combines input lectures with an exercise to make theoretical lessons usable for practical design solutions.
The seminar is supplemented by intensive self-study and presentations.

After successful completion of the course, students will be able to

Relevant reading will be made available at the beginning of the course. A list of recommended literature will be announced in the course and updated on an ongoing basis.

Minimum 75% compulsory attendance and continuous assessment.
The final grade is calculated according to the weighting of the following components: final submission (60%), midterm presentation (20%) and final presentation (20%).

This optional module allows for various kinds of research studies. It is closely connected to the five units of the Liechtenstein School of Architecture and is usually part of ongoing research projects. The supervision consists of directing the students towards clear results within a given field of research. The individual study is reviewed within the respective unit.

Urban Design & Spatial Development Unit:
Sustainable building is on everyone's lips. But most approaches are aimed at short-term measures such as the installation of insulation panels or the outlawing of concrete. In order to create long-term sustainable living in high-quality buildings, however, far more differentiated and comprehensive considerations are required.
In his book ‹Gegen Wegwerfarchitektur› (Verlag Klaus Wagenbach, 2023) Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani outlines a brief history of urban design and architectural consumerism and builds his reflections on a culture of substantial sustainability on this basis. He writes against the extinction of nature through urban sprawl and argues in favour of a strategy of density: only the compact city can be ecological. In order to reduce the immense material and energy consumption of the construction industry, he calls for a rigorous turnaround: turning away from the development of further building land and the unrestrained consumption of raw materials. Not demolish and then build again, but rather convert, restore and further develop.
The longer a building lives, the more ecological it is. In this Independent Study, we first read Lampugnani's book and then research the relevant data and figures on the current situation in Liechtenstein. What is the current state of affairs in the country in relation to the issues Lampugnani addresses?

Self-defined design or research studies, developed individually or in groups agreed upon with research units and under the guidance of mentors. The size of the module is determined by the respective unit.

After successful completion of the course, students will be able to

Relevant reading will be made available at the beginning of the course. A list of recommended literature will be announced in the course and updated on an ongoing basis.

Minimum 75% compulsory attendance, regular meetings with instructors, continuous assessment, portfolio and final review.
The final grade is calculated according to the weighting of the following components: final submission (80%) and oral presentation (20%).

Individual appointments will be set with the tutor.

For registration and enrolment, please get in touch with Michael Wagner directly: michael.wagner@uni.li

The Advanced Studio - Sustainable Design concentrates on the design of complex building projects in which the deficits for our society in the future are revealed through in-depth analyses. With the aim of achieving a sustainably good quality of life for individuals and humanity, we use a framework of five pairs of needs: resources and energy, space and mobility, food and health, demography and integration as well as values and ethics. These replace the familiar scale categories of common architectural theory and thus overcome the linear functionalism. Not unexpectedly, utopian, dystopian, but also very humble and reflective projects can result.

Guided project work in the design studio. A seminar week focussing on the studio topic is an integral part of the design studio.

After successful completion of the course, students will be able to

Relevant reading will be made available at the beginning of the course. A list of recommended literature will be announced in the course and updated on an ongoing basis.

BSc AR 24: Successful completion of all four foundation studios (Grundlagenstudios)
MSc AR 24: none

Minimum 75% compulsory attendance, continuous assessment, midterm and final reviews.
The final grade is calculated according to the weighting of the following components: design project (80%) and final presentation (20%).