Universität Wien

The Technology Transfer Office of the University of Vienna carries out activities with the aim of promoting and supporting the establishment of new spin-offs, raising awareness of entrepreneurship and innovation and developing entrepreneurial skills among students and young scientists. We offer these services in close cooperation with various external partners.

Activities
Below you will find a short summary of the most important activities around academic entrepreneurship:

• Innovation Labs are 2-phase programs to train students and early career researchers on current entrepreneurial content (digital, biomedical, etc.) and to support the creation of spin-offs and academic start-ups. The first phase of the program consists of approximately two-month training programs. Participants form interdisciplinary and diverse teams and develop a business idea. At the end of this phase, each team presents itself to a jury of external experts. The best teams gain access to the second phase of the program, where they receive ad hoc mentoring, further training, access to labs and pre-seed money to develop their prototype.
• Masterclasses are short and intensive training workshops that introduce PhD students to fundamental concepts of entrepreneurship and innovation. The program covers key aspects of intellectual property, business modeling and financial knowledge.
• Start-up advice for staff and students who want to start a business. If the business idea is sound, after an initial meeting we agree a plan to develop the business with support from the University.
• Funding support is provided to our founders on an ad hoc basis as required. We help them to improve their proposals for public funding and put them in touch with relevant private investors.
• The technology transfer team experts carry out innovation scouting to identify new technologies.

Team

Clara Conrad-Billroth, MSc
Academic Entrepreneurship Programs & Technology Transfer