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Division 6.3 - Transfer and Entrepreneurship Office

Division management:

Dr. Susanne Hübner

Deputy Division management:

Moritz Bradler

Bert-Morten Arnicke (Coordinator Start-up Consulting)

Responsibilities:

• Further development of a format for raising potential (ideas)
• Orientation and start-up advice: incl. idea and business model development, funding advice in the pre-start-up phase
• Maintenance of the start-up network including mentors and experts and participation in networking events
• Involvement of mentors/coaches/development partners in the counselling process and community management

Moritz Bradler (Knowledge and Technology Transfer Consultant)

Responsibilities:

• Conception and implementation or revision of transfer-related services for MLU scientists and/or inventors interested in transfer,
• Business/administrative support for scientists in innovation projects with a focus on future technology-based start-ups (from proof of concept to foundation or technology sale),
• Coordination of technology commercialization.

Luise Gebhardt (Project Assistant)

• Project controlling
• Reporting
• Public procurement and documentation
• Deadline management
• Preparation and follow-up of meetings
• Creating presentations and posting content on project websites
  

Responsibilities:

Dr. Susanne Hübner (Division Management)

Responsibilities:

• Clarification/processing of fundamental and interdisciplinary issues,
• Initiating and maintaining contacts and cooperations with companies, other institutions, chambers and associations,
• Advising and supporting the faculties and scientific institutions in all matters relating to knowledge and technology transfer,
• Coordination of start-up-related third-party funded projects (on behalf of the Vice-Rectorate for Research, Internationalization and Transfer).

Dr. Stephanie Jahn (Dialog- and Impactmanagerin)

• Methodical support for research teams
• Identifying and analysing potential solutions from the scientific community
• Participating in the development of use cases and impact challenges
• Developing and implementing low-threshold, dialogue-based formats for establishing contacts and identifying potential for cooperation
• Facilitating co-creative initiation and development processes
• Strategic networking and systematic development of regional transfer contacts
• Developing indicators and low-threshold recording instruments
• Active participation in project management and coordination of project-related consultations
• Involving and guiding students

Gitte Kießling (Sensitisation Entrepreneurship /Communication)

Responsibilities:

• Management and implementation of the target group-oriented approach
• Editorial content creation (social media, print) to publicise the start-up-related support services
• Conceptual and offer-focused editorial support for the website
• Design, implementation and evaluation of a low-threshold activation format for students/ researchers
• Management and design of the annual programme of the university start-up week
• Contact for (potentiell) Co-operations

Gabriel Kolar (Transfer and Start-up Coach

Responsibilities:

• Planning of transfer and start-up projects from scientific research
• Advice and support for scientists on research transfer and founding innovative start-up companies, including process moderation Involvement of mentors / external coaches / development partners in the coaching process and participation in community management
• Participation in project management and administration and project-related coordination
• Development of implementation opportunities for innovations and start-ups from research in the project area

Dr. Claudia Langosch (Entrepreneurial Skill Development)

Responsibilities:

• Conception and implementation of a qualification and workshop programme for early career researchers
• Realisation of qualification and workshop programmes
• Realisation of sensitisation and motivation offers for the transfer activities of early career researchers
• Networking with innovation and start-up players and establishing a pool of experts from science and practice
• Project management for the project Just Transistion Center and administration and participation in project-related coordination
• Participation in project-related public relations work

Lauritz Maletz (Scidea Lab / Innovation and Startup Coach)

• Identifying and developing potential ideas from MLU with a focus on digitalization, health care and public services, and medical technology
• Early-stage expert support for teams in developing startup ideas and business models
• Participant and case management
• Project management at the interface between the consulting, community, and mentoring services offered by the Transfer and Startup Service and the participating departments

Ines Schmiegel (Project Assistant)

Responsibilities:

• Project controlling
• Reporting
• Public procurement and documentation
• Deadline management
• Preparation and follow-up of meetings
• Creating presentations and posting content on project websites
  

Dr. Robert Szczesny (Manager Intellectual Property)

Responsibilities:

• Information, advice and support for university members on general questions of intellectual property protection, employee invention law and patent, competition and copyright law,
• Receipt and formal examination of invention disclosures and preparation of statements with regard to technological feasibility, commercial potential and exploitation opportunities for inventions,
• Participation in the further development and validation of the strategy for dealing with intellectual property and development of protection and exploitation strategies for IP objects, including reporting,
• Drafting and preliminary review of exploitation agreements in the IPR area (in particular non-disclosure agreements, patent license agreements, know-how agreements, software agreements) and material transfer agreements,
• Nagoya representative of the MLU.

Dr. Edgar-John Vogt (International Startup Office)

Responsibilities:

• Contact person for international students
• Consulting for international students and researchers
• Input on entrepreneurship on MLU courses
  
• Design, organization, and implementation of educational offerings and qualification formats in the field of entrepreneurship and innovation
• Interface to central university institutions, committees, the International Startup Offices of the Central German University Network, and actors in the regional startup ecosystem
  

Stefanie Zillessen (Startup Consulting)

Responsibilities:

• Orientation and Startup Consulting
• Technical Support and Funding Advice (State/Federal) — Securing Funding for Startup Projects with Scalable/Innovative Concepts
• Maintaining the Startup Network and Facilitating Networking Among Founders
• Opinions and Assessments on Innovation and Startup Potential
• Mentor Matching
• Support for Female Scholarship Recipients

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