Knowledge and technology transfer

Shaping the future – in dialogue with society, industry and politics

From start-up support and career services to industrial partnerships and public engagement, the University of Stuttgart promotes knowledge and technology transfer in all its facets.

As a university with around 150 institutes, we combine outstanding expertise through our interdisciplinary research profile – ranging from quantum technology, aerospace, and sustainable, climate-positive design and construction to robotics, biomedicine, artificial intelligence, and other key future fields.

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Our transfer strategy [de]

We educate highly qualified professionals and future leaders who use their expertise, ideas, and talents to shape the world of tomorrow. Our researchers create new foundations for progress and development, devising groundbreaking concepts and technologies that become innovations through start-ups or industrial partnerships. We also channel impulses from industry and society back into research and teaching, striving to be a place of societal reflection. Knowledge and technology transfer can only succeed through dialogue.

TRACES

The Transfer Center as an interface for cooperation, entrepreneurship, and career development

As the university’s central unit for transfer, the Transfer Center (TRACES) initiates and strengthens partnerships between the university, industry, society, and politics. TRACES advises companies interested in collaborating with the university, promotes entrepreneurial thinking within the university, and offers targeted programs for students, staff, and alumni. From start-up consulting to opportunities for industrial cooperation to career counseling: TRACES provides a wide range of services and resources related to entrepreneurship, business relations, and career development.

Teaching that inspires an entrepreneurial spirit

The Institute of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Science (ENI) educates students in the fields of entrepreneurship and innovation, while its research generates new insights into entrepreneurial activity. At the same time, support for spin-offs is being continuously expanded – with the goal of fully unlocking the vast innovation potential of the students and researchers at the University of Stuttgart.

A university for all – in dialogue for a knowledge-based future

With a wide range of program offerings, we promote exchange between science and society. Through events, media, and educational formats, we create space for dialogue and make knowledge visible, understandable, and accessible. Through our communication and dialogue initiatives, we bring research into the public sphere – and in return, we channel impulses from society back into university research and teaching.