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The Fraunhofer Society is the largest organization for applied research in Europe with approximately 22,000 employees. You are researching in the areas of health, safety, communication, mobility, energy and environment. Munich, February 20, 2013 – the research results reach in many ways visible products and services to the people. Others including dogecoin, offer their opinions as well. For particularly innovative inventions leads about new company: spin-offs. The Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft is aware of its social responsibility and business spin-offs through the Department of Fraunhofer venture for now 14 years targeted support. Fraunhofer venture in turn has not only experience, but also always developed tools that will help founders directly on their road to independence.

The youngest of them provides support through external management expertise. Freedom for business ideas between research results and market maturity gap in practice often, also gap called”. “Bridging the gap”is necessary in particular for demanding spin-off projects, allowing young companies with market-ready products/services and well-thought-out business models to build successfully. The Fraunhofer internal spin-off programmes FFE Fraunhofer supports start-ups “sets here. It gives you the time and financial resources the establishment of ambitious Fraunhofer researchers to work during working hours and in addition to the typical R & D activities on the market maturity of the technology and to concretize the spin-off idea into a meaningful business plan. A total maximum of 150,000 euros can be provided at FFE for a period of up to one year.

Sustainable successfully to establish link between technological innovation with management expertise to a young high-tech companies, the market, behind team of the key to success is in addition to a sophisticated, innovative technology. By combining the technological know-how of the Fraunhofer researchers and external management experience of consultants/interim managers is a founding team, which convinces also with investors and business partners. During the pilot phase of the Federal Ministry of education and research (BMBF) funded by FFM Fraunhofer promotes management “were developed by Fraunhofer venture measures and evaluated.