Entrepreneurship at TU Berlin

Technische Universität Berlin was awarded the title “EXIST Entrepreneur University” by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy and continues to build on its strong position as the university with the most start-ups in Berlin-Brandenburg. But how does the University specifically help start-ups?

A combination of academic teaching, excellent research, and service offers for start-ups generates high potential for innovation and transfer and makes Technische Universität Berlin stand out in the area of entrepreneurship. What exactly is the University’s approach?

Technische Universität Berlin profits from a combined approach of teaching and research in the field of entrepreneurship, University-internal start-up support, and a focus on technology-oriented spin-offs. All of this is combined into the Innovation Management, Entrepreneurship & Sustainability degree program (IMES).

Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Network, Sustainability. This acronym, which also spells out in German the center’s address at Ernst-Reuter-Platz, reflects the vision which the University wishes to pursue at its new start-up center EINS on the Charlottenburg campus.

Karin Kricheldorff, head of the Centre for Entrepreneurship (CfE) at TU Berlin, looks back on one year of the EINS start-up center and speaks about the link between transfer and start-up support.

At 1,000m², the EINS start-up center offers start-ups ample space including work spaces, a prototype workshop (maker space), seminar and conference rooms, and an event space.