IDEAS - INNOVATION - IMPACT
Central service unit for start-ups, innovation and technology transfer
Start-up Spring School 2026
Start your own business in five days
Become a founder with EXIST Women!
Support for women on the way to their own start-up
Ideas with passion and entrepreneurial spirit
Four innovative ideas win the University of Bonn's ideas competition
IDEAS - INNOVATION - IMPACT
Start-up Spring School 2026
Become a founder with EXIST Women!
Ideas with passion and entrepreneurial spirit

Transfer Center enaCom

We see ourselves as an intermediary, translator and catalyst between science and stakeholders outside the scientific community. Our work focuses on making research results available for the benefits of society. enaCom is the central point of contact for all matters relating to University knowledge and technology transfer – for University of Bonn members and everyone else being interested to co-operate with us.

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Start-up Spring School 2026

From idea to business model in five days: that's what you'll learn at the Start-up Spring School from March 9 to 13, 2026.  Here, you'll develop your own start-up ideas with the support of our experienced coaches. You'll learn everything you need to know about starting a business and gain authentic insights into the real world of start-ups from successful founders. Register now until February 25, 2026!

News
ERC Proof of Concept Grant for innovation in low-temperature microscopy
Junior-Professor Daqing Wang from the University of Bonn has received a Proof of Concept Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) for his “MinCryo” project. With the grant of €150,000 over one year, the physicist will continue to prepare his research results for practical applications in industry. The technical solution developed by him and his team facilitates a wider and more resource-efficient access to cryogenic – extremely cold - optical imaging that combines microscopes with extremely cold temperatures.
OncoDegrade and ColdEx win BioRiver Boost! start-up competition
Second and third place in the BioRiver Boost! 2025 start-up competition went to the two start-up teams OncoDegrade and ColdEx from the University of Bonn and the University Hospital Bonn (UKB). First place went to the company JWP GmbH from Jülich. A total of eight finalists pitched their projects to a jury of experts at the award ceremony in Cologne in December. The competition is organized by BioRiver e.V. and annually honors innovative start-up projects in the biotechnology and life sciences industry.
Ideas grow at the Start-up Spring School
The next Start-up Spring School will take place from March 9 to 13, 2026, organized by the Transfer Center enaCom at the University of Bonn and the Start-up Manufaktur at the Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences (H-BRS). In just five days, participants will work on their own ideas and develop initial business concepts. It is not necessary to have your own start-up idea prior to participating. Interested parties can register until February 25, 2026.
Two Start-Up Projects Secure Millions in Funding
Two projects by researchers from the University of Bonn and University Hospital Bonn (UKB) have each been awarded up to €1 million in funding from the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space’s “GO-Bio initial” program. The funds will be used to translate research findings from the life sciences into marketable products and services, e.g. through securing patent protection and spinning off start-ups.
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Transfer Strategy

The University of Bonn has adopted a transfer strategy that describes the central aspects and objectives of knowledge and technology transfer. It serves as an orientation for a common understanding of transfer that promotes the exchange between science and society, which takes place at different levels and by different means. With its Excellence Strategy, the University of Bonn emphasizes its impact orientation and would like to systematically expand this further.

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Start-up

From the initial check to individual coaching, we help University members to turn ideas into successful start-ups.

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Inventions and Patents

Patents protect research results and facilitate commercialization. enaCom helps to identify, protect, market and commercialize inventions.

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Business and Society

enaCom enables to collaborate successfully: science, together with business and society, we take responsibility for innovations.

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Funding Opportunities

enaCom helps to select and submit applications for public funding programs focused on different start-up or transfer projects.

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Networking

enaCom is partner in different networks focusing on knowledge transfer to promote the exchange of science with all external stakeholders.

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Qualification

enaCom offers a variety of events on soft skills, professional skills and networking with transfer partners.

Call for start-up mentors

Support the University of Bonn as a mentor to accompany start-up projects to success. The Transfer Center enaCom has created a platform where you can contribute your potential as a mentor while supporting the next generation of entrepreneurs. Register and become part of our inspiring network of experienced executives, (industry) experts and innovative start-ups.

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Communion

enaCom is committed to promoting transfer of knowledge and technology. We combine different transfer activities from all research areas of the University. We document successful transfer formats and give them visibility. We present best practices from within the University and act as a showcase for the most exciting transfer projects to the outside world.

Communication

enaCom informs about innovative research results close to application. We talk about science offering meet-ups for different stakeholders in business and society. As a central point of contact and gateway for co-operation, we connect all stakeholders inside and outside the University.

Commitment

enaCom is committed to all stakeholders interested in knowledge exchange; researchers and students, as well as practitioners and citizens outside the academic community. Dialogue promotes a broad, research-based transfer of knowledge. We therefore speak both languages, the language of academics and the language of professionals.

Companion

enaCom provides individual consulting and assistance to support the multidimensional transfer activities of the University. We always help existing and future partners inside and outside the University and provide unbureaucratic, efficient service.

Commercialisation

enaCom handles all matters concerning utilization of the excellent research results achieved by the University. We provide information on the options available for protecting intellectual property rights and how to bring inventions to start-up.

Contact

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Sandra Speer

Head of Section

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Brühler Straße 7

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Dennis Daseking

Deputy Head of Section

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Brühler Str. 7

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Claudia Morales

Office Manager

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Brühler Straße 7

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