TuTech Innovation GmbH (TuTech) Website: www.tutech.net Contact: Walter Leal or Julia Gottwald (click to email)

TuTech was founded in 1992 by the Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg to forge a link between the university and the economy.

Today, TuTech is a one-stop shop for technology transfer in Hamburg; its main businesss activities lie in the fields of:

• The management and performance of contract research projects and technical studies in co-operation with the Technical University Hamburg-Harburg, the Christian-Albrechts-University at Kiel and other research institutions.
• Finding co-operation partners
• Exploiting R & D results
• Acting as technical consultant to companies and as a consultant on the promotion of business plans
• Running training courses
• Organising conferences and fairs
• Advising and supporting young, technology-orientated firms.

Technology transfer in Hamburg was re-organised in 2004 when TuTech and c:bs channel business services merged with the technological advisory centre Hamburg to form TuTech Innovation GmbH as the central point for technological transfer in Hamburg. All colleges and universities in Hamburg now conduct their transfer activities with Hamburg Innovation GmbH, an associate company of TuTech Innovation GmbH.

TuTech is active in bio-technology, civil engineering, information and communication technologies, system technology, physics technology, material sciences, maritime technology, transport and logistics, environmental technology, process engineering and energy technology. TuTech’s customers and co-operation partners include many big German companies as well as a large number of small and medium-sized companies, with particular focus on the economic environment in and around Hamburg.

TuTech is currently involved in 25 current European R & D projects and runs a variety of national research and development projects as well as studies for the Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research, the Federal Ministry of Transport, the Federal Office for the Environment, the German Federal Foundation for the Environment and the Office for Economic Affairs in Hamburg etc.

TuTech functions as a business incubator for technology-orientated businesses. Based on the R & D results and the technological know-how of its scientific partners, TuTech develops business ideas for commercial activities. Successful businesses are hived off, with TuTech contributing to the business during the seed phase. TuTech has supported around 50 start-up ventures deriving from Hamburg university departments and research institutes.

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