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Over the past few months, we have been closely monitoring, reflecting, and discussing the changing landscape of academia and the world of university spin-offs. These thoughts have taken us to the crossroads of basic research and its translation into tangible innovation, the potential of the European research landscape, and how we can increase its societal and economic impact, and led us to ask how academic institutions can better serve the communities around them. Starting this October, we will share our thoughts more openly in a series of posts designed to spark rich discussions. We want to create short, thought-provoking insights and raise questions that challenge our current perceptions of the role of academia in enabling desired futures. We invite you to join these conversations, share your views, and help us explore these fascinating topics further. Your experiences and insights can be invaluable as we tackle these complex issues together. That being said, let’s turn to our first impetus. The agility and rapid innovation typical of startups could revolutionize academia, transforming universities into dynamic hubs of societal impact. By adopting startup dynamism, could universities not only accelerate their research outputs but also enhance their practical applications, thus truly enabling desired futures? What transformations would this agility bring to traditional academic settings? Christine Elisabeth Bandtlow, Horst Bischof, Christian Enzinger, Peter Ertl, Michaela Fritz, Wolfgang Graier, Manuela Groß, Birgit Hochenegger-Stoirer, Lars-Peter Kamolz, Christopher Lindinger, Tobias Madl, Christina Holweg, Ronald Maier, Peter Parycek, Markus F. Peschl, Elmar Pichl, Thomas Pieber, Barbara Romauer, Alexander Rosenkranz, Christiane Tusek, Werner Wutscher #InnovationInEducation, #AcademicTransformation, #StartupCulture , #FutureOfWork

They’re saving lives—and the planet. The forward-thinking innovators behind Vektor Medical, Inc., an AI-based cardiac localization and analysis technology, and Fjord Phyto, a unique participatory science platform that intertwines climate science and tourism, took home the top prizes during the inaugural Chancellor’s Innovation Awards celebration. 🏆 The Chancellor’s Innovation Awards, which opened for nominations last September, were created to recognize standouts in two distinguished categories, each with a cash prize: Faculty Startup of the Year and Student/Alumni Innovator of the Year. This year’s winners represent just two of the more than 1,000 startups that have launched out of UC San Diego since the university’s founding in 1960. In the last three fiscal years alone, 49 startups have been licensed from university technologies, and more than $51 million in funding has been acquired by UC San Diego startups through venture capital investment, private equity, mergers and acquisitions over the last three calendar years. #AI #ClimateScience #Startup #UCSanDiego

#RWTHalumni foster #EntrepreneurialTransfer through innovation, start-ups, and industry cooperation | RWTH Aachen University has a huge network of alumni from all over the world. Whether they used to study, research, teach or work in tech or administration, for many of them, their studies or work at RWTH has not only shaped the direction of their professional careers, but also forged a strong bond with their alma mater – lasting well beyond their time in Aachen. Or, as Dr. Annika Hauptvogel put it, "My time at RWTH never really came to an end." Dr. Annika Hauptvogel is a great example of how RWTH alumni drive entrepreneurial transfer from research to industry and society. Upon completing her PhD at Werkzeugmaschinenlabor WZL der RWTH Aachen, Annika joined Siemens. As Head of Technology & Innovation Management, the RWTH alumna aims to get new technologies off the ground and facilitate their transfer from research to market through innovation ecosystems like the Siemens Research and Innovation Ecosystem Aachen Arc. In addition to RWTH alumni supporting entrepreneurial transfer through research-industry cooperation, there is, of course, the innovators themselves. Dr. Kai-Philipp Kairies, founder and CEO of ACCURE Battery Intelligence, and David Oudsandji, founder and CEO of Voltfang, are two of them. Both studied at RWTH and subsequently founded their own start-ups with a focus on #batteries. Along their individual entrepreneurial journeys in the #Aachen start-up ecosystem, the two #RWTH alumni joined forces with further local #battery start-ups to form the #BatteryCircleAachen. Learn more about the different paths of the three RWTH Alumni in the latest issue of "keep in touch": https://lnkd.in/eEmjVyPs You're an RWTH alumna or alumnus yourself and want to get involved? Reach out to explore different oppportunities for collaboration! #ESCNRW #technology #transfer #innovation #startups #entrepreneurship #deeptech Photos: Tilo Turian (left, right), Martin Braun (center)

Are you a visionary graduate student eager to bridge the gap between #scientificinnovation and impactful #entrepreneurship? Join us at EPFL for the #Sciencepreneurship Summer School on #Sustainability and #AI in Lausanne from April 29th to May 3rd, 2024! What to Expect? 🚀 Identifying Business Opportunities in Science: Explore the untapped potential within scientific realms and learn to spot opportunities that can shape the future. 👫 Building a Team and Finding Investors: Network with like-minded peers, seasoned entrepreneurs, and top European investors to forge connections and propel your venture forward. ⚠ Learning How to Avoid Common Pitfalls: Equip yourself with the knowledge to navigate the entrepreneurial landscape effectively. Apply Now! Don't miss this chance to turn your innovative ideas into reality. Applications are open until March 22nd, 18h00. Secure your spot at EPFL in Lausanne by visiting this link: https://lnkd.in/eVM2U8hQ Kellerhals Carrard Startup & VC Desk QBIT Capital ETH AI Center Arnout Devos Maximilian Krödel Xunhui Wang Jaques Schmidt Julia Wagner Gregor von Dulong

We are so proud and pleased to congratulate Giulio Pantano with his successful defense of his PhD project “Co-creation in the entrepreneurial university: unraveling systemic value tensions”. The modern entrepreneurial university is concerned with fostering knowledge transfer, innovation and entrepreneurship by engaging its students and researchers with societal actors in a broad spectrum of collaborative activities. However, sustaining such collaborations requires bridging the diverse and sometimes conflicting expectations of the various actors involved, including the university itself. Giulio’s PhD project delves into how the entrepreneurial university must recursively grapple with these intrinsic and systemic tensions, ultimately designing valuable collaboration programs that invite actors to interact, align and co-create effectively. Giulio's defense was followed by a festive reception with his family, friends and colleagues from DTU Entrepreneurship and DTU Engineering Technology. Giulio ... from all your colleagues at DTU Entrepreneurship; You have always taken an active part in our activities at the centre, professionally as well as socially. You have been an important part of our team and have added so much good to our purple community. Thank you for that 💜. We are sure that your research skills, interest and insight within the entrepreneurial university and value creation, among other topics, will bring you many more great achievements, successes and adventures. We wish you the best of luck with your future career and life.✨ Read a bit more about Gio research here: https://lnkd.in/dwUyESh3 DTU - Technical University of Denmark, Sara Grex, Lars Alkaersig, Kristina Vaarst Andersen, Anna Brattström, Thomas Crispeels #research #dkforsk #DTUdk #PhD #entrepreneurship #innovation #purplefeeling

It is my greatest pleasure and sincere honor to share that I will lead the REDINEST project, which is my dream initiative! 🔆 Our proposal, titled "Student-powered and challenge-based impact lab network for the development of transformative competencies and inclusive mindset" has been funded by Erasmus+ program for Cooperation partnerships in higher education. 🎯 REDINEST project aims to complement current curricula for developing cross-disciplinary transformative competencies and inclusive mindset by forming a network of impact labs across partner universities. Students will be empowered by the approach of responsible entrepreneurship for the inclusive green and digital transformation and partners scale up their challenge-based education by fostering connections towards companies, as well as among students at a European level. 🎨 All consortia members - Eötvös Loránd University Faculty of Informatics ELTE IK, Université de Rennes I, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Organizational Sciences, University of Évora - will unite their efforts to create an impact lab design and an implementation scheme that enables student-powered education at an inter-university level with an interdisciplinary approach. The methodological development will be followed by the pilot implementation of interconnected and student-powered courses and a summer camp. All contributors are ready for and enthusiastic about finding new methods that can level up our joint entrepreneurship education! Alvaro Pina Stranger Alberto Tejero Lopez, PhD Francisco Javier Segovia Sandra Jednak Mladen Čudanov Rui Quaresma Hernâni Zão Oliveira Teresa Gonçalves Imola Koszta Miklos Gabor Judit Bóna Zsolt Horvàth #international #interdisciplinary #diversesensitive #impactlabs #inclusive #studentpowered #intercultural #newfrontiers #entrepreneurshipeducation #redinest Photos are borrowed from some events of our previous projects - Portfolio, InnoChange and EITDigital - that led us here, to this amazing next step!

🌟 Student Associate Spotlight: Ryan Bose-Roy 🌟 📚 Introduction Program and Year: Biomedical Engineering and Political Science '24 Hometown: New York City, New York Favorite Thing to Do in New Haven: Going running in the morning after it rained the night before and watching the misty sunrise from science hill or east rock. 🚀 Motivation to Join CBIT: "In 2023 I did a healthcare hackathon in Boston called MIT GrandHack, and my teammate was a Yale School of Management student working for Yale Ventures. When I told her that I wanted to learn more about the ecosystem bridging devices and care, she recommended I apply! I knew about CBIT from being a Biomedical Engineering major and having gone to a couple Yale Healthcare Hackathons as well." 💡 Opportunities at CBIT: “Definitely meeting people like Margaret, Michelle, and David, who know a LOT about entrepreneurship at Yale. They’re quite passionate about helping medical ideas at Yale grow, and that’s been a huge factor in cultivating a frame of mind in me to think about how I can create things to improve human care and think about healthcare more holistically.” 🧩 Impactful Project: ”One project I learned a lot from was building a database to house all the CBIT projects, and a pipeline to connect new projects with mentors and keep teams on track. You see quite generally the diversity of processes ventures can go through, whether in ideation or having already raised funding. In addition to becoming a lot more fluid with AirTable, I did appreciate the chance to think through what questions a team might need to answer when they’re just starting out or when they’re providing biweekly updates to a mentor.“ #YaleVentures #CBIT #StudentSpotlight #HealthcareInnovation #Entrepreneurship #Yale #BiomedicalEngineering #PoliticalScience #Biotech

Wonderful Cambridge 🌟 The Cambridge tech ecosystem has a value of $191 billion, more than the value of Spain and Italy’s tech ecosystems combined. Cambridge has proven to be an incredibly valuable contributor to UK and global innovation. This is why so many European governments want their leading universities to emulate Cambridge. Cambridge has produced 16.9x in value for every dollar of VC investment, significantly ahead of the UK (5.4x) and London (4.8x). Much of this innovation has taken place in the University of Cambridge which is the number one science hub in Europe, as well as number one on the continent for producing valuable spinouts. “In addition, more Cambridge alumni have raised over $10 million on a per capita basis – more than any other European university. Panacap is proud to continue investing in the city.

📢 We pat ourselves on the back for just showing up to a demonstration and posting on social media. As if holding a sign is the pinnacle of our contribution to society. Don't get me wrong, awareness is crucial, but leaving it at that is the lazy way out especially as a university student. 🎓 We are sitting on a massive pile of resources: university infrastructure, corporations looking to us as the cute nonthreatening face of the future, a safety net underneath, and usually a life situation allowing for risk taking. Yet, the most "radical" action many of us take is signing a petition and flex contrarian thoughts on social media. We can do better 💪. Deep Dive is not easy, because it is not a pat on the back. It’s a push into the deep end: access to actual, cutting-edge scientific work that's ready to be transitioned out of the lab and into the market. This isn't a Harvard case study or a hackathon aiming to give you a good time; this is about tangible, immediate action. Through Deep Dive, students directly engage with research groups about to commercialize, offering a genuine pathway to make a difference that matters. And what I mean by mattering: if you won’t do it, it won’t happen at all. You don’t need two decades of experience or a PhD to contribute. The real requirement is the willingness to start now. What’s new this year? --> The qualifications are on March 1–2 at VALO Hotel & Work --> The finals are set for March 22 at the Undergrad Center in Otaniemi. --> Workshops are now a must-attend --> Aalto Entrepreneurship Society will host a science fair at the finals, with research groups showcasing their work 🎪 And yes, you will be rewarded. All participants get 250€ for the qualifications and finals events so that your work can actually be utilized by the research group, and there will be a 5000€ grand prize for the winning team in the finals. So, what’s it going to be? More self-congratulation or stepping up to make a difference where it actually counts? Apply by Sunday: https://lnkd.in/dCT8XsvZ

Wow what an honor to be part of this faculty Tel Aviv University - Coller School of Management and two big likes to Prof. Moshe Zviran and Prof. Dan Amiram and for the faculty team 𝐍𝐨𝐧-𝐔𝐒 𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐮𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐧𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐚𝐥𝐮𝐦𝐧𝐢 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐲𝐞𝐞𝐬.  The success of American startups is rooted far beyond the efforts of the American educational system.  In the data, 458 non-US universities “produced” at least one unicorn founder. Moreover, 45% of all US-based VC-backed unicorns have at least one founder who studied or worked full-time at a university outside the United States.Tel Aviv University leads the list with an impressive 31 unicorns.The University of Oxford is right behind with 30, followed by the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology with 27. Other notable institutions are the University of Cambridge (25 unicorns), The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (23), and McGill University, Canada (18). Also highlighted is the cumulative total achieved by *the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), especially IIT Delhi, which has been the clear leader. Credit: Ilya Strebulaev & Levi Shapiro