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Tips for university spin-offs

12 August 2024
Daunting path from university student to entrepreneur - knowing requirements can help

Founders of university spin-offs meet with a dynamic business climate and a wide range of support and development opportunities throughout Hamburg. The city is a centre of science with many renowned colleges, universities and research institutions. The University of Hamburg is one of Germany's ten universities of excellence and among the largest with around 43,000 students.

Financing and counselling

The nationwide EXIST Business Start-up Grant provides funding for founders from universities and research institutions. Knowledge-based start-ups can avail of support from the Startup Port among others. The association co-ordinates the start-up centres of ten universities and research institutions in Hamburg. It offers students, researchers, potential entrepreneurs, start-ups, established companies and investors coaching and networking opportunities.

Tips and success stories for university spin-offs

The many successful start-up stories reported by our partner portal Startup City Hamburg demonstrate the numerous forward-looking business ideas in the fields of science and research that are being developed in Hamburg. The website has all kinds of tips for founders from an academic background. A recent interview with Dorothea Ringe, Head of the DESY Start-up Office, and Dr Christian Salzmann, Head of the Startup Port at the Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg (TUHH), highlights these needs and how they can be met.

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