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
Entrepreneurial
University Potsdam
Competence Center:
Integration of
Knowledge and
Technology Transfer
POTSDAM
TRANSFER
EXIST- Entrepreneurial University
Site Manager
BIEM e.V.
pearls
GO:INcubator GmbH
EXIST III
Knowledge and technology transfer at the University of Potsdam
Market-driven,
market-preparatory
Services
Public,
university services
 Startup Services
 Transfer Services
 Entrepreneurship
Education
 Alumni
 Career Service
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Life Science
Technique
HR Development
Conference & IP Services
Projekt Services
Business Management
Public Policy &
Management
Market Services
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Recruitment
Assuring skilled labor
Network Management
Site Management
Senior Consulting
Seminars & Workshops
Technology Center
Knowledge and technology utilization
Potsdam Transfer - Overview
Potsdam Transfer
Center for Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Knowledgeand 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
Potsdam Transfer – The Four Columns
Potsdam Transfer
Research on
Entrepreneurship
and Innovation
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Research Projects
Studies
Joint Projects
Scholarships
Dissertations
Startup Service
 Business start-up
advice
 Entrepreneurship
qualifications
 All services for
undergraduate
and postgraduate
students,
scientists, alumni
and professors
from all faculties
Entrepreneurship
Education
 Bachelor and
Master courses in
innovation and
entrepreneurship
 Executive
Education in
MBA-programs
Transfer Service
 Project
Development &
Management
 Intellectual
Property
Management
 TechnologyScouting
 Trade Fairs &
Presentations
 Event and
Entrepreneurship 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
EDUCATION
 Convey of knowledge in the field of
Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management
Potsdam Transfer – Startup Service
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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
 Site Management
(orientational advice for entrepreneurs)
 BIEM Startup Navigator (+ international)
(entrepreneurship workshops und coachings)
 EXIST Business Start-up Grant [EXISTGründerstipendium]
(funding to support innovative startup projects)
 EXIST Transfer of Research [EXISTForschungstransfer]
(funding to support application-oriented
research projects)
STARTUP
 Senior Coaching Service
(competition with prizes and 1-year coaching
by business executives)
Apply Knowledge
 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)
TRANSFER
Apply Knowledge
Technology-Scouting
 Systematic research
 (technology map)
 Interdisciplinary approach
(screening of complementary technologies,
applications and customers and markets)
 Potential analysis and evaluation
(technology description and technology radar)
TRANSFER
New Endeauvours - exPo4value
EXIST IV - Entrepreneurial Value Chains within pearls
Technology-Scouting, Entrepreneurship-Academy, Establishing Entrepreneurial Culture
Optics / Physics / Information Technology
New Materials / Nanotechnology / Chemistry
Faculty of Economics and Social
Sciences
Faculty of Human Sciences
Climate / Environment
Faculty of Mathematics and
Natural Sciences
Faculty of Arts
Law Faculty
9 UP-Profilbereiche
Agriculture / Energy / Life-Sciences
Science Map
Polymer Chemistry
AG Laschewsky
AG Rasche
AG Hölzle
AG Wagner
Chemistry
Economics
Physics
Human
Sciences
InnoFSPec
IT-Systems Engineering
Potsdam Transfer – Startup Service
2013
42 spin-offs/start-ups
340 Projects
547 Ideas
2010
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Entrepreneurship involves a high degree of uncertainty; there is only a small probability of
predicting future individual success
Potsdam Transfer – Startup Service
Post-Founding
Founding
Pre-Founding
Contact
Volume
 MBA
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Start-up Navigator
GO:INcubator
SCS
Scouting
 EFRE
 EPE
 BPW
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 TechnologyTransfer 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: dieter.wagner@uni-potsdam.de