Author: Dirk Riehle
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The Winter 2024/25 AMOS Projects
We are happy to report that the winter 2024/25 AMOS projects are off to a good start. This semester’s industry partners Shell, SEP, e.solutions, and MUMBI are working with our computer science student teams of size 8-10 people each to develop open-source software they’d like to see and use. The projects are: Demo day registration…
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Further R2S-2025 program information sessions
The research-to-startup workshop program for wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter:innen (Ph.D. students) teaches graduate students how to turn their research into a startup. It covers all fundamentals using 12 half-day workshops, giving graduate education and technology transfer offices the freedom to focus their resources on the strengths and opportunities of their university. On the heels of the first successful information…
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First R2S-2025 information session, Sept 16th, 2024
The research-to-startup workshop program for wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter:innen (Ph.D. students) teaches graduate students how to turn their research into a startup. It covers all fundamentals using 12 half-day workshops, giving graduate education and technology transfer offices the freedom to focus their resources on the strengths and opportunities of their university. Please join us on Sept 16th,…
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Professors on the cap table (an R2S outtake)
In this video I discuss how universities can (and perhaps should) think about the equity stake they take in startups born out of their research. There is a serious moral hazard at work, but it can be resolved. This 15 min. explainer is an outtake of my Research-to-Startup (R2S) program.
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Wait, what? Student innovation with confidential data?
“Wait, what?” Andi Zink, then VP of Engineering at SumUp said, “Your students could be programming some of the exploratory features we never seem to get around to doing?” “Correct,” I answered, “our computer science Master’s students are ready to get in touch with industry and do something useful in our courses, as long as…
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Now looking for winter 2024/25 AMOS project partners
We are now looking for industry partners to provide requirements and sponsor Scrum projects with our students in Erlangen and Berlin. In The AMOS Project, 6-9 students of computer science (or similar degree programs) develop open-source software based on the project partner’s requirements. Student teams follow a Scrum process. Our students hail from Uni Erlangen,…