Start-up and Advisory Services
Do you have exploitable research results or an idea for a new business venture? Then we’re happy to assist with its implementation. CET helps students, staff and graduates of all departments at TU Dortmund University as well as technology and knowledge-based start-ups with the concrete planning and realization of their business ideas.
We assess your ideas or research results with the aid of state-of-the-art entrepreneurial methods, help you to draft and develop business models, with value propositions, how to recognize market opportunities or draw up a business plan. We also help you with your applications to funding programs for early-stage finance. Co-working spaces and a makerspace are also at your disposal for further developing your start-up project and constructing prototypes.
Please feel free to share your research results and business ideas with the CET team!
We assess your projects on the basis of a checklist and with the aid of state-of-the-art entrepreneurial methods. Our advisory services center on personal coaching, help with drafting and developing business models and business plans as well as sounding out funding programs for early-phase finance and submitting applications.
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We provide rooms for students and staff wishing to further develop a start-up project. The open working environment and direct exchange of knowledge and experience offer the perfect platform for your creativity to flourish and also help new projects to blossom. To apply, please send a short motivation letter including details of your Start-up project to: cet@tu-dortmund.de
CET coordinates the cetup.INNOLAB, a 4-month incubator program that offers start-up entrepreneurs an ideal framework in which to give their project ideas a thorough check – as well as a significant boost! INNOLAB's portfolio, which comprises six core services, includes putting you in touch with experienced mentors, seminars in our Innovation Academy, financial advice as well as workshops customized specifically to the needs of start-up enterprises.
Students, staff and graduates from higher education institutions in Dortmund and the region are eligible to apply, as are other interested parties who have either already set up an innovative start-up or have a knowledge/technology-based idea for one.
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Together with the Department of Engineering Education, we offer budding start-up entrepreneurs a makerspace where they can further develop product ideas, manufacture prototypes and then test them in the marketplace. You just need a short introduction and not a lot of prior technical expertise to use the makerspace. It’s equipped with everything you need for prototyping (3D printers, laser cutters, CNC machines, etc.). For further questions contact the CET: cet@tu-dortmund.de