Business Start Ups

So far, a lot of money and effort has been invested in the doctoral thesis, but how does a well-researched idea become a product? Some applied researchers are faced with the question of whether and how they can close a market gap with what they have "invented". Then it may make sense to consider setting up your own company.

Germany would hardly be conceivable without poets and thinkers, but also without inventors and engineers whose products determine our everyday lives. An example: In 1861, the mathematics and physics teacher Philipp Reis more or less alone launched his invention - the telephone - into the world and then disappeared into insignificance, while 15 years later Alexander G. Bell applied for a patent for the first telephone in the USA. In contrast to 1861, young researchers today are better advised. If Philipp Reis had tried to file a patent application in time... but that's another story.

Since its foundation in 1995, the Bonn-Rhine-Sieg University of Applied Sciences has produced many successful founders in various industries, who have settled primarily in the Cologne-Bonn region and created numerous jobs. They provide for innovations and belong to the large network of the H-BRS with regional enterprises. A whole series of internal university institutes at H-BRS are particularly concerned with the subject of business start-ups.

Important contact points for start-ups:

An important address is the Centre for Science and Technology Transfer. Here you will find experts on intellectual property rights. The Business Campus is located in the immediate vicinity of the Sankt Augustin University of Applied Sciences, where spin-offs from the university can gain their first important experience and receive versatile support. The CENTIM, the Centre for Entrepreneurship, Innovation and SMEs on Campus Rheinbach, is the scientific partner for all questions relating to business start-ups.

An important partner of the H-BRS and thus for founders of new businesses of our graduates (and postdocs willing to start) is the Chamber of Industry and Commerce, IHK Bonn/Rhein-Sieg, based in Bonn. The Digital Hub in Bonn, an accelerator with the participation of H-BRS, also is a meeting place for founders, people interested in founding a company, developers, designers, investors, scientists and many more.

Incidentally, there were many good ideas for new start-ups at the annual Ideas Market with innovative start-ups at H-BRS.

Further helpful links on the subject of reasons at the H-BRS can be found here.