Entrepreneurship News
The start-up ecosystem at TUM is growing
Extended partnership between TUM Venture Labs and Rohde & Schwarz
The ecosystem for start-ups in the field of security, defense, and resilience technologies at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) continues to grow. TUM Venture Labs and the technology group Rohde & Schwarz are expanding their long-standing partnership to include this field. The aim is to jointly identify and promote promising start-ups. Rohde & Schwarz will support the technology hub as an industry and technology partner with expertise and know-how.
Support for innovation and start-ups
Health Minister Gerlach visits TUM Venture Lab Healthcare
The Bavarian Minister of Health, Judith Gerlach, has visited the new laboratory facilities at the TUM Venture Lab Healthcare. The Minister handed over a funding grant of 500,000 euros for the SMART HEALTH program, which promotes technology transfer. The TUM Venture Lab Healthcare supports start-ups that put cutting-edge research findings in the fields of digital health, medical technology and life sciences into practice.
Podcast "We Are TUM"
A visit to the Campus Heilbronn
In this episode we report from the TUM Campus Heilbronn, which has developed rapidly over the past six years: More than 1,000 students from all over the world, close ties to companies, and exciting topics related to AI, management, and digitalization.We talk to those who are helping to shape the location-from the students' perspective to strategic visions for the coming years.
Success for innovation ecosystem in aerospace
TUM spin-off launches first rocket
Isar Aerospace, a spin-off of the Technical University of Munich (TUM), has conducted the first test flight of its rocket - and thus also the first launch of a carrier rocket designed to transport loads into orbit from Western Europe. In future, the system will be used to launch small and medium-sized satellites into space, which are crucial for numerous emerging technologies. The founding of the start-up by three graduates was intensively supported at TUM.
TUM sets new record for spin-offs
More than 100 new start-ups in one year
At the Technical University of Munich (TUM), the number of newly founded start-ups exceeded 100 for the first time in 2024. The innovation ecosystem centered around TUM is regarded as one of the most successful deeptech hubs in Europe. The Financial Times recently selected UnternehmerTUM as Europe’s leading start-up hub for the second time.