presentation tu tech

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TuTech Innovation & Hamburg Innovation GmbHHarburger Schloßstrasse 6-12 D-21079 Hamburg

Skane Invest 08.10.2010

Monica SchofieldDirector International Cooperation & EU Office

Presentation to delegation Skåne InvestTuTech 8 October 2010

A short introduction to TuTech



Ø TuTech founded in 1992

Ø Central TT service organisation

Ø €15,9 Million turnover, 45 core staff

Ø Founded in 1978

Ø Regional development aspirations

Ø Priority given to inter-disciplinary

research and technology transfer

Ø 5000 students, ca 100 professors

Hamburg University of Technology

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51% 49%

Ownership



Knowledge

producer/sourcePotential user –Problem owner

Knowledgetransfer

Information

Management

EducationLife sciences

Marine

Aerospace

PROCESSES - ACTIVITIES INDUSTRIAL SECTORS

Knowledge and technology transfer

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Knowledge producer/source

Potential user –Problem owner

Knowledgetransfer

Skills and services

CommunicationBusiness intelligence

NetworkingFinancingTrainingMarketingContractsLicensing

Tech. business start-ups



Knowledge

producer/source

Potential user –

Problem ownerKnowledgetransfer

Values

Peer appreciationIndividual recognition

OriginalitySpecialist

Limited management support

ValuesCorporate identity

Answerable to investorsNon-specialists

Skilled in negotiation

Fusing of values and perspectives

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Knowledge transfer in Tandem

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Marketing of R&D results

PVA

Patent Exploitation

Agency for Hamburg‘s

universities



Fit for Business

Baltic Sea Venture cup

TuTech-CCE Competence Centre

Entrepreneurship

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Business Incubator

Incubator services for start-ups

• Reception• Post, telekommunication• Book-keeping• IT Services• Conference and meeting rooms

2000 m² Office space1500 m² Electronics lab space



• richtet sich an kleine und mittlere Unternehmen aus

Hamburg

• will über die Potenziale der Zusammenarbeit zwischen

Wissenschaft und Wirtschaft informieren

• will Methoden und Werkzeuge zur Gestaltung der

Zusammenarbeit vermitteln

• wird gefördert durch ESF und Hamburg

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Biocatalysis2021 Cluster Initiative

Merging the Boundaries between Science and Innovation



KLIMZUG-NORDStrategische Anpassungsansätze zum Klimawandel

in der Metropolregion Hamburg

Projektantrag im Rahmen der BMBF Ausschreibung (03-2007) „Klimawandel in Regionen zukunftsfähig gestalten. Regionen gewinnen im Wettbewerb – die Welt gewinnt mit!“

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Trade Routes of Knowledge:the Baltic Sea Knowledge Region Pilot

Action

www.bskr.org

1.1.04 - 31.03.06



To provide professional, highly valued and affordable support services for research and development and knowledge transfer activities involving European and International partners.

International Cooperation & EU Office

• Very experienced consultants

• Strongly networked to research, industrial and political institutions (BMBF, EP, EIRMA)

• Own experience of applying for and managing projects

• Sought after as trainers. Clients incl. FhG, MPI, BNI, KOWI, Vinnova plus private sector.

• 9 staff

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CONTRACTSwhere the pitfalls are

Consultancy

PROGRAMMESwhere the money is!

RELATIONSHIP MGMThow to get others to

work for you!

EXPLOITATIONhow to get something

out of it!

POLITICAL LOBBYING – to make the system better



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Realisation of innovation

Wealth and employment creation

New competencies

Public administration

Public administration

ResearchResearch

Private enterprisePrivate

enterprise

New knowledge, ideas

Educational opportunities

International networks

Infra-structure

Regional attractiveness

Public services

Creating the right

environment

How to manage such a partnership?How to manage such a partnership?

Partnerships for regional development



See you in Hamburg…

Welcome to Hamburg

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Vitamine für die Region

Contact

www.tutech.de

International Cooperation and EU Office

[email protected]

Enterprise Europe [email protected]

presentation tu tech

Lifestyle

hamburg skane

professors tutech

knowledge transfer activities

trade routes of knowledge

office space

services conference

international partners

affordable support services