IDEAS - INNOVATION - IMPACT
Central service unit for start-ups, innovation and technology transfer
Start-up Career Forum
Discover start-ups as exciting employers or meet co-founders!
Impact Pitch Night
Experience the best impact ideas of the region on November 3rd!
Become a founder with exist women!
Support for women on the way to their own start-up
IDEAS - INNOVATION - IMPACT
Start-up Career Forum
Impact Pitch Night
Become a founder with exist women!

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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Tell us your idea and win 5,000 euros

The University of Bonn’s ideas competition offers a great opportunity to turn your idea into reality! Ideas at any stage of development and from all fields—such as technology, social innovation, sustainability, and much more—are welcome. We are particularly looking for ideas that propose new solutions to current problems and can thus have a positive impact on society. All members of the University of Bonn, as well as alumni (up to three years after graduation), are invited to participate and can submit their ideas by November 8!

News
New AI Agents in Medicine: Harnessing Artificial Intelligence to Improve Brain Tumor Diagnostics and Treatment
How can artificial intelligence help diagnose and treat patients with brain tumors? This is the question that researchers are tackling in a Europe-wide collaborative project involving the University of Bonn and the Neuroradiology Clinic at the University Hospital Bonn. The European Innovation Council (EIC) is funding the “EUcanAI” project to the tune of some €3.9 million over the next four years.
enaCom Event Schedule for the 2026/27 Winter Semester
This winter semester, join exciting workshops and events hosted by the Transfer Center enaCom to learn about practical methods and tools you can use to bring your ideas to life. Special highlights this semester include the return of Impact Pitch Night and the Ideas Competition, where you can present your start-up ideas and win up to €5,000 in prize money.
UNIPRENEURS honors Denise Fischer-Kreer
Prof. Dr. Denise Fischer-Kreer received an award from UNIPRENEURS for her exceptional dedication to spin-offs and entrepreneurship. The professor for Entrepreneurial Behaviour at the Institute of Entrepreneurship, University of Bonn, was honored for her work promoting entrepreneurship within higher education and research in Germany, along with 19 other professors. The award ceremony took place in Berlin.
Ideas Become Reality at the Start-up Summer School
What happens when about 30 students and researchers from different disciplines come together to further develop their ideas? They brainstorm, experiment, test ideas with potential customers, discuss business concepts, and ultimately present seven of their own creative business ideas. At the fully booked Start-up Summer School in August, participants spent a week learning all the basics of starting a business. The Start-up Summer School is offered regularly by the Transfer Center enaCom at the University of Bonn and the Start-up Manufaktur at Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences.
Upcoming Events
Teams der Uni Bonn auf der Messe "SPIEL 2026"
Messeplatz 1, 45131 Essen
Whole Day
Spielen und forschen bzw. studieren? An der Universität Bonn wird alles zusammen gedacht und gelebt. Im Rahmen der SPIEL 2026 in Essen stellen ...
Start-up Financing – Understanding Your Financing Options
Online
12:00 PM - 01:30 PM
Every start-up reaches a fundamental question sooner or later: how can an idea be financed sustainably? From self-funding to public grants and private ...
Start-up Career Forum 2026
DIGITALHUB, Am ...
05:00 PM - 07:00 PM
The Start-up Career Forum is Bonn’s main event for bringing together founders and (university) talents. Exciting start-ups offer insights into their visions ...
Own Your Code: IP & Exploitation Strategies for Research Software
Hybrid: Online and at ...
01:30 PM - 04:00 PM
This workshop aims to showcase the full range of exploitation pathways for research software, many of which go well beyond classical technology transfer. ...

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.

The founders of the University of Bonn startup "Candidate Select" in their office.
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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.

enaCom - enabling people to create opportunities

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

Avatar Daseking

Dennis Daseking

Interim Head of Section

Am Propsthof 49

53121 Bonn

Avatar Morales

Claudia Morales

Office Manager

Am Propsthof 49

53121 Bonn

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