About the workshop
This workshop will offer you a holistic understanding of the whole process: from the application stage to successfully finishing a PreSeed-Project. You will learn what aws considers ‘innovative’ and ‘high-tech’, what should be included in your application (structural information, team, terms, timetables, business model, etc.) and what are the follow-up steps providing you have a successful application.For the unanswered questions, we reserved time for a Q&A session at the end of the workshop.
About the lecturer:
Karl Biedermann
Investment Manager, Austrian Wirtschaftsservice
In the last 10 years Mr. Karl Biedermann has worked at voestalpine (Austrian Steel corporation) and CSC (US Computer Sciences Corporation) with a focus on Industrial IT-Products/Services and B2B-Sales.
As an investment manager at aws he advises, supports and funds High-tech Startups with his expertise for 8 years already. Besides that, he is also a member in several funding decision boards in the Austrian funding system. He holds master’s degrees in telecommunication, business and corporate communications.
Evgeniia Filippova
Scientist at AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, Centre for Innovation Systems and Policy
As a scientist at the AIT Centre for Innovation Systems and Policy, Evgeniia Filippova investigates new patterns in socio-technological developments and helps formulate policy strategies for public authorities and firms.
Prior to that, Evgeniia has been a senior scientist at the WU Vienna, where she coordinated interdisciplinary research activities on Blockchain-based business models, delivered various lectures and workshops on Cryptoeconomics, FinTechs and Blockchains (within the WU Research Institute for Cryptoeconomics), taught a broad range of courses in entrepreneurship, business modelling and innovation management (within the WU Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation). Evgeniia Filippova has extensive experience in supporting scientists to transfer their research results into successful business models gained, among others, at CERN where she has been responsible for analysing smart sensor technologies with regards to their potential commercial applications and for providing entrepreneurial training for scientists with a technical background.
Workshop “Technology Competence Leveraging: How to Commercialize Your Technology” // “Technology Competence Leveraging: Finding Commercially Attractive Applications for Your Technology”
Finding the commercial potential of your research results is often a challenging task. This workshop will provide you a concrete step-by-step methodology how to:
The workshop may be of interest for early-stage entrepreneurs with a technical background and for all those who consider applying for a research grant and need support with the exploitation of the research results.
“Great CEOs face the pain. They deal with the sleepless nights, the cold sweats, and what my friend the great Alfred Chuang (legendary co-founder and CEO of BEA Systems) calls “the torture.” Whenever I meet a successful CEO, I ask them how they did it. Mediocre CEOs point to their brilliant strategic moves or their intuitive business sense or a variety of other self-congratulatory explanations. Great CEOs tend to be remarkably consistent in their answers. They all say, “I didn’t quit.” ‘’ – Ben Horowitz, author The Hard Thing About Hard Things
Being a first-time founder has its blessings and its courses. During this session, we want to talk about the realistic goals of embarking on the exciting and challenging journey of starting your first business. Especially if you have been working in the academia for the past years and you want right now to make the leap and start your own company based on your research results, you will have a better experience starting a spinout if you are armed with some expectations about your likely journey. Spinning-out requires a clear time and usually also money commitment, and its success highly depends on the founder team’s passion, irrational optimism and deep faith the technology they’ve developed. From writing their first business plan to their first investment and scaling up, 3 founders from 3 different TU Wien- affiliated companies in different stages share their experience with transforming their research into successful products or services.
At the end of the workshop you will:
Guests:
Nermina Mumic – CEO & founder Legitary
Nermina graduated with honours from Vienna University of Technology with a master’s degree in Technical Mathematics. After her studies she gained profound experience as a data scientist in a leading global IT consulting company, developing AI solutions for various industry applications. Within the scope of her PhD in Technical Mathematics she developed a new machine learning method for fraud detection in streaming data. Based on her research results, she founded Legitary GmbH as a spin-off from Vienna University of Technology. Legitary is the winner of the world’s leading music startup competition Midemlab.
Benjamin Mörzinger – Founder Campfire Solutions
I would like to be able to look my future children in the eyes and say that I have done everything to leave them the world as a better place. That’s why I am committed to ensuring that we, at Campfire Solutions, have the right long-term goals and that the team has the perfect environment to be effective.
Julie Rosser – CEO Pregenerate
As an equine surgeon, I grew frustrated at the lack of effective treatments for arthritis in horses. When I began researching arthritis, I learned first hand the true cost of animal testing in medicine and vowed to establish an alternative. Pregenerate’s Arthritis on a chip is that alternative, enabling pharmaceutical research for arthritis in both the human and veterinary medicine sectors – with a market size greater than $570 billion
Important Information:
This workshop is organized by the Innovation Incubation Center (i²c) at TU Wien. There is no fee, but registration is required. Only TU Wien scientists can participate in this event.
During the event, photographic and video material will be taken. Please inform the TUW Innovation Incubation team at the registration in case you do not agree with appearing in this material. The photographic and video material taken at the event will be used by i²c for printed and electronic media, including the Internet, for publication, education, lectures, radio, public performances, exhibitions or other promotional purposes.***
The purpose of this practical workshop is to introduce the benefits of the entrepreneurial mindset to scientists at TUW. The workshop will be led by Paul Coyle, the Director of the Entrepreneurial Mindset Network, an international organisation with members in 74 countries. Through short presentations and exercises, Paul will help participants at the workshop to explore:
• the practical application of the entrepreneurial mindset in Higher Education
• the benefits of thinking and acting like an entrepreneur
• the role of the mindset in increasing innovation and productivity
• the lessons that each participant can apply within their current role and responsibilities
Lecturer: Paul Coyle – Founder and Director, Entrepreneurial Mindset Network
Paul CoylePaul Coyle is the founder and director of the Entrepreneurial Mindset Network, a global network supporting individuals, team leaders and organisations to benefit from the entrepreneurial mindset. Paul is passionate about the power of the entrepreneurial mindset to deliver personal and organisational transformation. Since starting his consultancy business in 2013, Paul has worked with representatives of over 600 organisations from 59 countries. Prior to this, he enjoyed a highly successful career in higher education, which included a decade at the executive level. He has held the titles of pro-vice-chancellor, executive dean, and professor of Entrepreneurial Leadership, and worked in many disciplines including business, design, health and IT. With a career that continues to span the business and academic worlds, Paul remains fully committed to supporting learning and innovation.
Important Information:
This workshop is organized by the Innovation Incubation Center (i²c) at TU Wien. There is no fee, but registration is required. Only TU Wien scientists can participate in this event.
During the event, photographic and video material will be taken. Please inform the TUW Innovation Incubation team at the registration in case you do not agree with appearing in this material. The photographic and video material taken at the event will be used by i²c for printed and electronic media, including the Internet, for publication, education, lectures, radio, public performances, exhibitions or other promotional purposes.***
Corporate Branding is said to be expensive and time-consuming, its impact on a companies success simply not quantifiable. Furthermore, brand strategies require fundamental know-how on marketing – a vital obstacle for startups, small or medium enterprises. But without an authentic and convincing communication even good ideas remain unseen, their sales under their potential.
The Viennese branding experts Hämmerle & Luger want to clear up misunderstandings. By focussing on tools that are intuitively applicable they help create and maintain strong brands that do not require any marketing expertise. The workshop „Let me tell you a story … a shortcut to powerful branding“ delivers insights into their core method „Archetypal Branding”. It shows an easy way to focus a brands communication by finding an emotional and meaningful key message.
Important Information:
This workshop is organized by the Innovation Incubation Center (i²c) at TU Wien. There is no fee, but registration is required. Only TU Wien scientists can participate in this event.
During the event, photographic and video material will be taken. Please inform the TUW Innovation Incubation team at the registration in case you do not agree with appearing in this material. The photographic and video material taken at the event will be used by i²c for printed and electronic media, including the Internet, for publication, education, lectures, radio, public performances, exhibitions or other promotional purposes.***
Conferences, trade shows and other business gatherings can be used to super-charge your business success… if you know how. Too many founders are too shy or too uneducated about how to do it, especially now when everything happens online.
The right preparation, the right behavior at the event, and the right follow-up strategy are the deciding success factors.
Guest lecturers
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Florian Kandler – Fundraising Expert and Startup Mentor
Florian Kandler, startup coach and 3-time founder will share his popular 3-point strategy that he has developed over 15 years as a sales and business development professional in corporations and his own startups. He’ll also answer any and all of your questions in a Q&A. So come prepared and learn some crucial entrepreneurial competencies.
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Peter Heimerl – Marketing Research Manager, TU Wien
Peter Heimerl has been active as organiser, trainer and internal consultant to researchers in the field of innovation and co-operation with industry. Within the workshop, he will share from his experience with the TUW Service Unit of Research Marketing, the best way to put the spotlight on your research project and will introduce you to the support TU Wien offers for attending trade shows. These events are an excellent means of communication with innovative companies as well as media from all around the world about know-how and new technologies created by researchers at TU Wien. His expertise includes marketing and research-to-business matchmaking as well as IP-issues, entrepreneurial and contractual issues.
Important Information:
This workshop is organized by the Innovation Incubation Center (i²c) at TU Wien. There is no fee, but registration is required. Only TU Wien scientists can participate in this event.
During the event, photographic and video material will be taken. Please inform the TUW Innovation Incubation team at the registration in case you do not agree with appearing in this material. The photographic and video material taken at the event will be used by i²c for printed and electronic media, including the Internet, for publication, education, lectures, radio, public performances, exhibitions or other promotional purposes.***
Description of the workshop
You are expected to perform despite high stress levels. You are expected to shine despite strong competition. You are expected to move fast despite scientifically challenging experiments. You are expected to succeed despite failing every once in a while.
What if we could not only accept failure but re-learn the wrong relationship we have with things that go wrong. What if we could start seeing the positive side of failing? What if we learned to see the enormous benefit of failure and could eventually enjoy what’s happening? What if there are tools and techniques that make a scientist’s life including failure still joyful and exciting instead of stressful and desperate?
It’s time to see failure as a chance to use as acquired learning and as a way to refine your strategies to come out better, stronger and more resilient. Together with Michaela Lindinger we will take a look behind the scenes and discover why failure gives us such a hard time. We will actively work on the factors and feelings that play a role in success as well as failure and define your personal way how to handle perfectionism, fierce academic competition and your fear of failure best possibly.
Important Information:
This workshop is organized by the Innovation Incubation Center (i²c) at TU Wien. There is no fee, but registration is required. Only TU Wien scientists can participate in this event.
During the event, photographic and video material will be taken. Please inform the TUW Innovation Incubation team at the registration in case you do not agree with appearing in this material. The photographic and video material taken at the event will be used by i²c for printed and electronic media, including the Internet, for publication, education, lectures, radio, public performances, exhibitions or other promotional purposes.***
TU Wien is the source of Deep Tech innovation in Austria. With the annual i²c Networking Friday – a conference dedicated to entrepreneurship as the third mission of a university – TU Wien not only showcases TU Wien innovations and spin-outs but also brings together scientists, representatives from industry and politics, public and private investors, entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial interested.
What has been an on-site event for 6 years is now transferred to an online event in 2021 considering all rules and regulations that come along with COVID in our daily life.
What to expect:
This year’s panel discussion will focus on “Spin-outs as the 3rd mission of Universities: Motivation, Obstacles, and Perspectives”. The panel will be in German language. Together with our two moderators, Dr. Birgit Hofreiter and Mag. Daniel Cronin, we are looking forward to an interesting and controversial discussion with:
9 TU Wien research projects with a high market potential introducing how they plan to revolutionize their industries with their innovations
12 academic spin-outs and start-ups supported by the TUW i²ncubator exhibiting virtually their innovations
The option to meet and mingle with the sciencepreneurs and conference participants (inter-/national investors/VCs, industry experts, and other players in the entrepreneurial ecosystem) facilitated via 1:1 meetings
Please register here for attending the online event:
https://hopin.com/events/networking-friday
Pioneer. The. Future.
be part of bringing research to society
***Note: There is no fee, but registration is required. During the event, photographic and video material will be taken. Please inform the TUW Innovation Incubation team at the registration in case you do not agree with appearing in this material. The photographic and video material taken at the event will be used by i²c for printed and electronic media, including the Internet, for publication, education, lectures, radio, public performances, exhibitions or other promotional purposes.***
Description of the workshop
The most successful ventures are founded by entrepreneurial teams rather than individual entrepreneurs, but a large founder team can be problematic as well. In the special case of establishing a university spin-out, the number of founders is likely to be higher, the team members fulfill various roles and have a different level of commitment to the day-to-day running of the company. As a provider of resources and permissions, you can expect the university to become a significant shareholder as well. Splitting the equity equally among university and/or founder researchers might be detrimental to the spin-out in the long-run. So how to make sure everyone gets his / her fair share of equity?
This workshop covers important topics like the size of the shareholding, how to split founder equity dos and don’ts and possible consequences, how to tackle founders who don’t commit 100% or want to continue their academic path as well as provide you with some tools to ease the process of splitting the founder’s pie.
At the end of the workshop you will:
Guest Lecturer
Lucanus is Founder and Managing Partner of Calm / Storm Ventures, a founder network and boutique venture capital firm based in Vienna, Austria. Prior to founding his own fund, he was a General Partner at Speedinvest where he personally led investments focused on digital health companies including Playbrush, Ourpath, or Diagnosia. Prior to Speedinvest, Lucanus was managing director of whatchado.com a portfolio company of Hansi Hansmann’s “hansmengroup”. Lucanus holds Master degrees in Entrepreneurship (WU Vienna) and International Management (CEMS). Lucanus is passionate about supporting founders with purpose. He helps entrepreneurs solving problems that really matter by leveraging his nearly 20 years of experience in business & corporate development. As a passionate sailor and father of 3, you ‘
Description of the Workshop
This workshop will focus on the overall process of setting up a business in Vienna. What are the forms of business entities, their advantages and disadvantages, and what are the steps and documents needed to register your company? Learn what is a shareholder agreement, when should you sign it and discover the rules and regulations you should follow when founding a company.
About the lecturer
– Wolfgang Graf –
Partner Graf Patsch Taucher (since 2004) admitted as attorney-at-law both in Austria and New York
Dr. Wolfgang Graf is an attorney-at-law in the Viennese law firm Graf Patsch Taucher. Mr. Graf holds degrees from the University of Vienna law school (Mag. iur. Dr. iur.) and the Pennsylvania State University (LL.M.). He is admitted to practice law both in Austria and N.Y. Mr. Graf specializes mainly in corporate and mergers & acquisitions. He is a lecturer at the University for Applied Sciences Wr. Neustadt and author of a book on data protection law and several articles on corporate law. Mr. Graf is vice-president of the “Institute for Forensic Analysis”, a private institute analyzing capital market-related publications and the prevention of business and capital markets-related white-collar crime.
