QuantumFrontiers Entrepreneur Excellence Programme

Through QuEEP, scientists in the cluster are identified and motivated to view their basic research results through the eyes of potential users. This helps to ensure that "real" products emerge from top-level research.

QuEEP supports - specifically tailored to the requirements of the scientist - by two essential components:

• Monetary support: Personnel costs are covered so that space and time is created for further development from the idea to the product.
• Ideal support: Valuable first-hand experience can be passed on through individual workshops, a large network, and mentors who themselves come from the start-up scene.

These components give our scientists the certainty that the planned spin-off does not have to represent a large financial or personal risk.

The FoundersClass is a participatory workshop series addressing the topic of transfer and spin-off. It is open to all members of QF. It doesn't matter whether there is already a concrete business idea or whether the focus is on introducing people to the topic of founding a company. The aim of the FoundersClass is to sensitize scientists to the topics of transfer and founding through impulses and interactive workshops and to provide them with the necessary know-how for the successful transfer of their own research results into application.

The FoundersClass is organized in cooperation between QuantumFrontiers and HighTech Startbahn GmbH (HTSB). HTSB has an active network in the high-tech start-up environment as well as many years of experience in advising and supporting technological spin-offs from research.