Rethinking Transfer.
Projects to promote Technology Transfer
Technologies, markets, and industry requirements are undergoing dynamic change. To ensure transfer processes remain effective, they too must develop continuously. New transfer channels create access to innovation platforms, connecting stakeholders and enabling rapid initial financing. The continuation of education opportunities also strengthen the transfer culture in the long term.
New Transfer Paths
In our projects, we develop and test new methods, formats, and instruments that support different phases of the transfer process — from structuring early ideas and evaluating technological potential to validating fields of application and designing effective collaborations. This results in practical tools that strengthen innovation and start-up projects and make the transfer process more efficient in the long term.
OpenTransfer – Strategies for Transferring Research Results in the context of Open Science
As part of the OpenTransfer project, new methods for improving the transfer of knowledge and technologies in the context of open science are being developed and tested in pilot projects.
KST – Competence instead of Technology
GSI not only has unique technologies at its disposal, but also outstanding expertise in various technological fields. As part of the “Competence instead of Technology” funding project, procedures are to be developed and tested to market GSI's expertise directly, early on, and openly.
Innovation Platforms
Innovation platforms bring together ideas, technologies, and expertise to enable joint developments and accelerate transfer processes. They provide structured spaces for exchange, methods, and collaboration, helping to identify and pursue innovation potential at an early stage.
Hi-Acts – Innovative Solutions for Industry and Society with Accelerator-based Technologies
The innovation platform's mission is to make accelerator-based technologies accessible for industrial and medical applications. Hi-Acts brings all stakeholders together to accelerate the integration of deep-tech solutions into the industry.
Strengthen Culture
A strong transfer culture is created through joint learning, open cooperation, and targeted skill development. Appropriate formats, methods, and opportunities for exchange support innovation processes and open up new avenues for knowledge and technology transfer.
HAFIS – Helmholtz Academy for Intrapreneurship
Through a transfer project designed by the participants themselves, researchers are taught the skills they need to identify transfer potential and implement it. Project-based learning, rather than intensive educational programs, is the focus of the Academy, which helps strengthen the transfer culture in the long term.
Fostering Collaboration
Practical transfer projects require the right partners. New tools and formats for finding partners help to identify suitable players at an early stage, bring them together, and open up joint development paths.
KiTIE – Cooperation Expertise in Technology Transfer
The project is developing an IT-based tool to identify potential partners for non-university research institutions based on patent information. The aim is to enable effective and efficient partner-finding in technology transfer.
HITRI – Heavy Ion Therapy Research Integration
This project aims to integrate and advance biophysical and medical research into cancer treatment using heavy-ion beams, while jointly developing the sophisticated instruments required for this purpose. For this significant initiative, HITRIplus has put together a consortium that includes all relevant stakeholders and brings together all four European ion therapy centers for the first time.