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Invitation to the Winter 2024/25 AMOS Demo Day
On February 5th, 2025, starting at 10:15 CET, our AMOS student teams will show the results of three months of hard work in four projects with our industry partners. The demo day is open to the public, but please register to receive the Zoom link the day before. If you would like to sponsor a Scrum project, in which…
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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…