Start-Ups and Tech Transfer

The partner insti­tu­tions of IQST have estab­lished a network to increase exchange with industry, and to support research­ers in bring­ing their ideas to products.

IQST supports the innov­a­tion leaders of the future by facil­it­at­ing the estab­lish­ment of start-up compan­ies and provid­ing techno­logy trans­fer and entre­pren­eur­ial educa­tion for early-career research­ers. Start-ups that were launched by members of the IQST community include: 

  • NVision Imaging Techno­lo­gies (Ulm & Hebrew Univer­sity)
  • Swabian Instru­ments (Stutt­gart)
  • Stutt­gart Instru­ments (Stutt­gart)
  • SQUTEC (Stutt­gart)
  • Printop­tix (Stutt­gart)
  • QC design (Ulm)
  • Diatope (Ulm)
  • 21 Semicon­duct­ors (Stutt­gart)

The well-established collab­or­a­tion with leading indus­tries within IQST helps techno­logy trans­fer and offers entre­pren­eur­ial training.