Innovation engine chemistry NRW: "ready, steady, STARTUP"

October 19, 2017
House of the University, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

The organizers were able to recruit high-ranking representatives from politics, science and business as participants for the impulse conference Innovationsmotor Chemie NRW. In addition, experts will provide information on questions related to the financing of start-ups and founders will report first-hand on their experiences on the way from an idea to a company.

Getting started with chemistry: researchers become founders - become entrepreneurs

2nd workshop on March 8, 2016
Goethe University Frankfurt, Riedberg campus

With the 2nd workshop on chemistry as a driver of innovation, some stages of this path with its special features, requirements, opportunities and risks were highlighted on the basis of authentic experience reports from successful ?chemistry founders?.

Speakers and discussion partners included Dr. Jürgen Stebani (Polymaterials AG) and Prof. Dr. Stefan Seeger (University of Zurich)

Researcher, founder, entrepreneur - from the idea to the product

Workshop on October 9, 2014
Goethe University Frankfurt, Riedberg campus The free workshop offered an orientation tour through the chemistry start-up landscape with its special features, requirements and opportunities. Prospective entrepreneurs got to know instruments, institutions and networks that specifically support them on their way from research to their own high-chemistry start-up. The main speakers and discussion partners included Prof. Dr. Dr. hc mult. Wolfgang A. Herrmann (President TU Munich) and Dr. Michael Brandkamp (Management High-Tech-Gründerfonds)