The joint contact point for start-up advice from the University of Lübeck and the Technical University of Lübeck is located in the GründerCube on the Hanse Innovation Campus Lübeck. Anna Lena Paape, Managing Director of HIC GmbH, took over the management of the joint start-up consultancy in 2022 and merged the previous start-up support structures of the two Lübeck universities. Students, academic staff, professors and graduates with an entrepreneurial spirit have a central point of contact in the GründerCube and can concentrate on transferring their knowledge and ideas to founding a company.
In the GründerCube you will find support from generating ideas and creating a business model to founding your own start-up. Because only in a start-up-friendly environment can innovative ideas come about, be turned into products or services and ultimately mature into successful business models. Both the University of Lübeck and the Technical University of Lübeck have research and transfer potential relevant to start-ups.
The Sparkasse zu Lübeck Founder’s Prize competition creates incentives to turn scientific research results into commercial success through mature business ideas. After careful selection by a jury of experts, the award ceremony will take place on November 29, 2023 in the Audimax on the Hanse Innovation Campus Lübeck.
As in previous years, founders and founding teams are asked by the Hanse Innovation Campus Lübeck to submit detailed concepts for their potential start-up projects. The application time runs from June 13 to September 15, 2023. After that, a pre-selection takes place. A jury consisting of experts from the fields of business and science will then invite the applicants in a final round to present their respective concepts in a presentation. A special prize for outstanding creative achievements may also be awarded.
As orientation and help for the participants in the competition, the tender documents, dates and information on the business plan are available on the Internet at www.gruendercube.de. The competition is aimed at graduates, students and members of the University of Lübeck, the Technical University of Lübeck and the UKSH Campus Lübeck.
Frank Schumacher, Chairman of the Board of Sparkasse zu Lübeck, says about the Founder’s Prize:
“It is a major concern of the Sparkasse zu Lübeck to strengthen and promote Lübeck as a location for science and research. It is important to us to support young academics with their trend-setting ideas and to promote the entrepreneurial thinking and acting of the founders. Since 2008, our company has therefore donated the ‘Start-up Prize of the Sparkasse zu Lübeck’. For the fifth time, not only attractive start-up concepts from the University of Lübeck and the UKSH Campus Lübeck, but also from the Technical University of Lübeck are being recognized. The value of the prize consists not only of the prize money totaling 10,000 euros. Its function is always important. It aims to make the general public aware that with good preparatory work and the necessary commitment, it is possible to successfully convert the transfer of innovation from research and science in the Lübeck region into jobs and economic growth – even in these challenging times , as we continue to experience them.”
statement dr Muriel Helbig, President of the Technical University of Lübeck:
“As a university of applied sciences, the exchange between science and business is part of our DNA. The founders of the mobile blood analysis laboratory ‘mobOx’ show how this cooperation can become a life-saving success story. The team at the Lübeck University of Applied Sciences is developing a device that will help shape the future of rescue services with research and entrepreneurial spirit. And they did so successfully: they won the Sparkasse zu Lübeck’s last start-up prize. I’m already looking forward to the new start-up ideas that will make our world a little better.”
Statement by Prof. Gabriele Gillessen-Kaesbach, President of the University of Lübeck:
“Spin-offs have always been very important at the University of Lübeck. They are a way of transforming scientific knowledge into society and creating added value. If you have a good idea, I would like to call on you to take part in the Sparkasse zu Lübeck Founders’ Prize, because research and teaching do not exclude start-ups – on the contrary: At the University of Lübeck, ‘start-ups’ even play a central role in the academic operation and transfer knowledge into added value. I wish all applicants all the best and every success.”
Statement by Anna Lena Paape, Managing Director of Hanse Innovation Campus GmbH and head of the GründerCube:
“It is important to me that everyone at HIC Lübeck who is interested in founding a company knows where they can get competent, uncomplicated support for their way into founding a company. The founder prize of the Sparkasse zu Lübeck honors excellent, innovative start-up ideas, but it also draws attention to the topic of start-ups. And perhaps tempts one or the other scientist to convert their research into a product and a company.”