Knowledge connects –
Action changes

This is what the HZDR Innovators School stands for.

Learning

You want not only to research, but to make a difference? Then:

  • Learn what transfer means!
  • Learn how you personally benefit from transfer as an HZDR scientist!
  • Develop your idea into an innovation!

Establish Transfer

Do you want to get started with your idea? Then:

  • Talk to the HZDR innovation managers!
  • Take part in the HZDR Innovation Contest!
  • Become part of an HZDR Innovation Lab!

Success with innovation

Benefit from your idea in the application:

  • Become an entrepreneur yourself!
  • Have your products marketed by HZDR Innovation GmbH!
  • Present your innovations at trade fairs and platforms!

The goals of the HZDR Innovators School

Many scientists want their research not only to produce scientific results, but also to make a contribution to society. Transfer shows ways in which scientific research can be transferred into applications. In addition to scientific expertise, this requires entrepreneurial perspectives, be it to evaluate the potential of one’s own research in an application-oriented manner or to protect and exploit intellectual property in a meaningful way as the basis for later exploitation.

About the HZDR Innovators School

The aim is to establish the HZDR Innovators School as a long-term qualification program at the HZDR and to create the basis for adequate programs at other centers.

The people behind the HZDR Innovators School

We live for innovation.

Dr. Anne Richter

Project Manager

As a coordinator, networker and fulfiller of wishes, Anne connects ideas and people. She is enthusiastically supporting the introduction of the new Learning Management System at the HZDR. She always has an open ear and, as a host, wants to create a space for development.

Dorit Teichmann

Innovation Manager & Trainer

As a trainer and coach with many years of experience at the interface between science and business, Dorit is your expert on how to get ideas off the ground in a practical way. With passion and precision, she accompanies people with an innovation on their path to success in a goal-oriented manner.

Melanie Giebel

Technology marketing & Alumni support

Melanie is not only responsible for the organization of the HZDR Innovation Contest, but also supervises and organizes exchange formats and transfer events. In addition, she also helps organize the HZDR Alumni Network to connect scientists with the HZDR in the long term.

Franziska Kleeberg

Technology marketing

With an inexhaustible reservoir of ideas and a keen eye for detail, Franzi transforms theoretical concepts into visually appealing presentations. Messages are sharpened with structure and target group focus.

Dr. Veronika Körösi

Career coach

Veronika accompanies postdocs and PhD students at the HZDR on their way to a successful career outside the HZDR. To this end, the Postdoc Center works closely with the HZDR Innovators School for workshops, company visits and networking events.

Helmholtz Transfer Academies

The HZDR Innovators School is part of the Helmholtz Transfer Academies.

These Helmholtz Centres-wide awareness-raising and qualification programs are intended to strengthen and expand the innovation potential and transfer culture in the Helmholtz universe. This includes the establishment and expansion of accelerator programs and entrepreneurship education initiatives, a wide range of offers for competence and method development, the teaching of entrepreneurial basics as well as networking and establishing contacts with helpful partners and companies. In addition to the HZDR Innovators School, the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf is also actively involved in the development of other Helmholtz Transfer Academies.

Logo der HZDR Innovators School

Online platform and training program with basic sensitization and further training offers in the field of transfer for HZDR employees from research and technology.

Nine-month support program for researchers and technicians to identify and implement their own transfer projects – whether knowledge or technology transfer.

www.hafis.info

Three-part training program especially for supervisors who want to use the potential of transfer activities profitably for their team.

www.innosuper.de

Online platform for the field of life science entrepreneurship with offers for exchange, further training and joint, cross-center projects.

www.helmholtz-h3.de

Our partners

Technology Transfer at the HZDR

With its research, the HZDR makes a significant contribution to better visualizing and treating cancer, conserving resources and better understanding materials. We cooperate with industrial partners and clinics, license technologies to companies or found companies so that our ideas can be put to use quickly. We also pass on knowledge and expertise through the joint use of our research facilities, the provision of data or consulting services. The “Technology Transfer and Innovation” department bundles all of the Center’s key transfer competencies and support services – from patent and innovation management to contract management and technology marketing.

3,7 Mio. €

Revenue from industry (as at: 2022)

233

Ongoing transfer projects

14 Mio €

Third-party funding for transfer projects