Apply knowledge.

The entrepreneurial University of Potsdam.

Prof. Dr. Dieter Wagner

Yesterday – Today – Tomorrow

Foundation Technology Transfer Office

of University Potsdam

Technology Transfer Office First projects started to support the technology transfer Training and Awareness Training Firms Foundation „UP Transfer Cooperation for Knowledge and Technology Transfer “

as a central subsidiary company of University Potsdam

UP Transfer GmbH

Startup Center:

Startup Service, Entrepreneurship Education, Research about Innovation and Entrepreneurship BIEM CEIP Interdisciplinary consultation for interested founders Site Manager

BIEM e.V.

Entrepreneurial University Potsdam Competence Center:

Integration of Knowledge and Technology Transfer POTSDAM TRANSFER EXIST- Entrepreneurial University

pearls GO:INcubator GmbH EXIST III

Knowledge and technology transfer at the University of Potsdam

Public, university services

     Startup Services Transfer Services Entrepreneurship Education Alumni Career Service

Market-driven, market-preparatory Services Market Services

       Life Science Technique HR Development Conference & IP Services Projekt Services Business Management Public Policy & Management        Recruitment Assuring skilled labor Network Management Site Management Senior Consulting Seminars & Workshops Technology Center

Knowledge and technology utilization

Shared pool of Junior and Senior Experts

Potsdam Transfer - Overview

Potsdam Transfer

Center for Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Knowledge and Technology-Transfer at the University of Potsdam

Board of directors

Professor Dr. Uta Herbst (Chair of Marketing) Professor Dr. Katharina Hölzle (Chair of Innovationmanagement and Entrepreneurship)

Scientific advisory board

Professor Dr. Dieter Wagner (CEO UP Transfer GmbH)

Potsdam Transfer – The Four Columns Research on Entrepreneurship and Innovation      Research Projects Studies Joint Projects Scholarships Dissertations

Potsdam Transfer

Startup Service    Business start-up advice Entrepreneur ship qualifications All services for undergraduate and postgraduate students, scientists, alumni and professors from all faculties and cooperating Entrepreneurship Education   Bachelor and Master courses in innovation and entrepreneurship Executive Education in MBA-programs Transfer Service      Project Development & Management Intellectual Property Management Technology Scouting Trade Fairs & Presentations Event and Congress

Entrepreneurship Education

EDUCATION Entrepreneurship Academy

The Entrepreneurship Academy has the goal to convey entrepreneurial thinking.

 students from all faculties learn to develop and

implement founding ideas

 multidisciplinary offers from various professorships  Strengthening of individual skills and talents  Training of leadership and needed team skills  Convey of knowledge in the field of

Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management

 Identification of potential founders

Potsdam Transfer – Startup Service • • • • • • • • • Startup Consultants BIEM Start-Up Navigator BIEM Start-Up Navigator International Berlin-Brandenburg Business Plan Competition for people starting up in business EXIST-Scholarships Senior Coaching Service Competition Entrepreneurship laboratory Entrepreneurial Postgraduate Education GO:INcubator

Entrepreneurial Knowledge

STARTUP

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Site Management

(orientational advice for entrepreneurs) 

BIEM Startup Navigator (+ international)

(entrepreneurship workshops und coachings)

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EXIST Business Start-up Grant [EXIST Gründerstipendium]

(funding to support innovative startup projects)

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EXIST Transfer of Research [EXIST Forschungstransfer]

(funding to support application-oriented research projects)

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Senior Coaching Service

(competition with prizes and 1-year coaching by business executives)

Apply Knowledge

TRANSFER

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Technology-Scouting

(analysis of utilization potential in the research area) 

Project Development and Management

(initiation of research and development projects) 

Intellectual Property Service

(protection of research results) 

Trade Fairs and Congress Management

(commercialization of research results)

Apply Knowledge

TRANSFER Technology-Scouting

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Systematic research

(technology map)

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Interdisciplinary approach

(screening of complementary technologies, applications and customers and markets)

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Potential analysis and evaluation

(technology description and technology radar)

New Endeauvours - exPo4value

EXIST IV - Entrepreneurial Value Chains within pearls

Technology-Scouting, Entrepreneurship-Academy, Establishing Entrepreneurial Culture

Optics / Physics / Information Technology Climate / Environment Economy / Society New Materials / Nanotechnology / Chemistry Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences Faculty of Human Sciences Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences Faculty of Arts Law Faculty

9 UP-Profilbereiche

Agriculture / Energy / Life-Sciences IT-Systems Engineering

Science Map

Polymer Chemistry AG Laschewsky Chemistry Economics AG Rasche AG Hölzle AG Wagner InnoFSPec Physics Human Sciences IT-Systems Engineering AG Löhmannsröben

Potsdam Transfer – Startup Service 2013

42 spin-offs/start-ups 340 Projects 547 Ideas

• • 2010 Entrepreneurship involves a high degree of uncertainty; there is only a small probability of predicting future individual success The volume of idea input is therefore crucial to raising the number of future companies

Potsdam Transfer – Startup Service

Contact Volume

Post-Founding Founding Pre-Founding

Stage

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MBA

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Start-up Navigator GO:INcubator SCS Scouting

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EFRE EPE BPW

Projects

Potsdam Transfer – Strategic Network Partners • • BIEM - Brandenburg Institute for Entrepreneurship and SME - is the joint entrepreneurship institute of all nine universities in the Federal State of Brandenburg (founded in 2006) Further member of BIEM is Brandenburg’s agency for business and regional development, ZAB

Patent Commercialization Agency BRAINSHELL BRAINSHELL is an independent agency specialized in: • • • evaluation protection and commercialization of inventions created at the university. The evaluation considers patentability and commercialization opportunities.

After this, the university gets a recommendation by BRAINSHELL to use or release the invention.

Startup Support at the University of Potdam

Paper for commercialization of industrial property

rights at the University of Potsdam (16.06.2005)

... The University of Potsdam supports spin-offs from the university, created inventions ​​at the University are used specifically for founding a business ... The University grants the inventors usually an option for these rights ...

Prof. Dr. Dieter Wagner

President and CEO UP TRANSFER GmbH of University Potsdam

POTSDAM TRANSFER

Center for Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Knowledge- and Technology Transfer at the University of Potsdam August-Bebel-Straße 89, Haus7 14482 Potsdam Tel.: +49 (0)331 - 977 - 40 37 Fax: +49 (0)331 - 977 - 38 72 Email: [email protected]