Founding networks
Our ideas contest – for you.
The founding networks at the participating universities support innovative startup projects and provide services to all university members and alumni who are interested in starting a business.
Charité - Universitätsmedizin
The technology transfer office of the Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin has been working in partnership with Profund Innovation (FU Berlin) in promoting start-ups. The partnership leads to a more effective use of resources. On the one hand, Profund Innovation advises Charité founding teams, accompanies and supports their applications for funding, offers qualification and provides networks and office space. On the other hand, spin-offs from Freie Universität Berlin benefit from the specialist knowledge of the Charité innovation scouts, who specializes in life sciences, and can get in touch with other experts, for example for clinical studies.
Humboldt Innovation
The Humboldt-Innovation GmbH (HI) is the company of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. As a wholly-owned subsidiary and the knowledge and technology transfer office of the university, HI acts as a liaison between university and industry.
Humboldt-Innovation GmbH (HI) promotes and manages research and development agreements as well as contracts for scientific services between HU scientists and private companies or the public sector on behalf of Humboldt-Universität, consults and supports startups and spin-offs of the university and manages the collaborations with investors and accelerators, offers trainings in order to promote the internal know how and the scientific expertise of the university and manages the HU Store as well as Museum Shop of Museum für Naturkunde (Museum of Natural History).
Profund Innovation
Profund Innovation is the service institution for knowledge and technology transfer within the research division of Freie Universität. We support students, scholars, scientists, researchers and alumni in developing application ideas for their research and realizing innovations. In our activities to support innovation, we work with scholars, scientists, and researchers to explore the application potential of their research and consult on what the most suitable path of commercialization is.
Centre for Entrepreneurship
The Centre for Entrepreneurship at TU Berlin supports its members by offering a broad range of individual services for business startups and has a proven record of selective screening and close supervision. Individuals interested in entrepreneurship are advised and mentored by experts and complete a practical qualification programme. Additionally, they are mentored by professors and have access to internal and external partners. Further support includes guidance with regard to grant applications, as well as access to equipment and facilities.
Digital Entrepreneurship Hub
From Lifescience through Programmatic Advertising to Digital Publishing – hardly any entrepreneurial field of action is not influenced by the use of digital technologies. The Digital Entrepreneurship Hub (DEH) reflects the influences of “digital transformation” on central areas of society. These include in particular the digitalization of entrepreneurial activity in almost all sectors, its influence on diversity, but also changes in university teaching (“e-/blended learning”) and research (“e-research”). The DEH is the central point of contact for entrepreneurship education and research at Freie Universität Berlin.
The DEH systematically promotes the exchange between research at the FU Berlin and start-up ecosystems in Berlin, the EU and worldwide.
At the interface between #digitalization and #entrepreneurship with direct research relevance, the DEH is unique in Berlin.
Science & Startups
Science & Startups provides a gateway and access to the joint programmes and resources of Berlin's universities to successfully start and develop your company. This includes innovative research, infrastructure, incubator space, scientific mentors, access to co-founders, grants, or coaching. Our services are free and aimed at academics, researchers, staff, students and graduates.
