Representatives From All 17 Departments Form New Research Transfer Advisory Board
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As the third pillar alongside research and teaching, the transfer and utilization of scientific findings are among TU Dortmund University’s core tasks. From now on, a newly established Research Transfer Advisory Board will initiate interdisciplinary partnerships within the university, with the aim of boosting transfer and fostering cooperation with external partners. Representatives from all 17 departments are actively involved in the new advisory board, which the Center for Entrepreneurship & Transfer (CET) launched at the end of 2022.
The Research Transfer Advisory Board forms a new interface between the departments and the CET, which already began bundling all start-up and transfer activities at TU Dortmund University five years ago. By working together, science and administration can enhance and expand a transfer-oriented and entrepreneurial culture at the university. To dovetail cooperation even more closely, Professor Mike Gralla was elected from among the departments’ representatives as the third member of the CET’s management board. As a mentor within the EXIST research transfer program, Gralla, Professor of Construction Management at the Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering, is responsible for supervising the successful start-up Building Information Cloud (BIC). He thus knows from his own experience what challenges there are for transfer and innovation.
Third Mission at TU Dortmund University
Bundled under the term “Third Mission”, transfer at TU Dortmund University is understood in a broad way: It includes both the transfer of knowledge from the university to business, society and politics as well as society’s participation in science. According to this understanding, transfer means, on the one hand, an external utilization of research results – know-how, patents, methods, data or software. The intention is to generate innovative products, processes and services that can also be made commercially available. On the other hand, transfer is also possible in the other direction: Ideas from business, society and politics are picked up in the university’s research work.
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